Cemetery visits

Students in three undergraduate classes in a course on death and grief were asked three questions concerning the frequency of visits to cemeteries. Of the 78 codable responses, 26 percent had not visited a cemetery for any reason during the previous five years; 45 percent had not visited a cemetery for burial during that period; and 62 percent had not visited a cemetery for purposes of attending a grave. Neither age, nor gender, nor death fear (as measured by one Likert-type item) were related to frequency of cemetery visits.