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AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) -- Allowing two people to be buried in the same plot is growing in popularity in suburban American Fork.
City officials started allowing the double burials a little more than a year ago in an effort to avoid a grave shortage in the American Fork cemetery.
The Daily Herald of Provo reports that more than two dozen families have requested the service.
Allowing two people to be buried in the same plot -- with one grave on top of the other -- can save families $1,200.
Most of the graves set up for two bodies have only been used by one occupant so far, although a father and daughter that were killed recently in a car accident are also buried in a single plot.
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