This is the norm in Arab&#x2F;Muslim countries where their doctrine instructs that the (naked) dead should be covered only in a simple, white cotton shroud and buried six feet under; caskets and embalming fluids are not used. (Hence the Islamic requirement for a speedy (same day if possible) burial, no wake, etc.)<p>In similar vein, mausoleums, raised tombstones, and cemetery shrines are also forbidden (the overall theme is &quot;we are all equal in death&quot;).<p>The net result is that cemeteries are &quot;reusable&quot; and some of the most-popular in Saudi Arabia (&quot;jannatul baqee&#x27;&quot; a là Arlington Cemetery) are reused&#x2F;recycled every so many decades (or is it once a century, once the denizens are forgotten&#x2F;no longer visited?).