Appropriately, just as I’m starting to catch up on my Six Feet Under video backlog, a wonky Google search has led me to the home page of the Cemetery Research Group based at the University of York (UK). Its contextual information page outlines the state of the art as far as UK cemeteries are concerned, with the rather startling information that “there is no statutory duty to provide burial space: as a consequence, provision tends to be ad hoc and is largely unco-ordinated at any level – parish, district, regional or national.”