The big question is how far away is Town A from Town B? If it's just a few hours' drive, then it would actually be pretty realistic to Real Life. For starters, the land in Town B could be much cheaper than in Town A; and therefore, more affordable to purchase a plot there. This is especially if Town A is an old and well established town where land is very valuable, cemeteries few and far between, and the plots all bought up already.
Let me tell you a story.
My great grandmother spent most of her life in Detroit with her husband and children. However, after many years and her husband died and she grew older, she went to Florida to live with her daughter because she needed care. On September 11th, 2001, she died in a hospital in Florida. All of the planes were grounded, but her grave plot next to her husband was all the way in Detroit.
My grandmother literally put her in an ice box in the back of a car and drove her body over a thousand miles so she could be with her husband and the rest of her family in a Detroit cemetary.
So yes. I think it's very plausible that someone would be buried outside of the state they died in to be in a family plot.
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My family (on my mother's side) came from Mexico. Many older relatives were buried in the family plot in Mexico despite emigrating to the US (tradition and all that). The "younger" ones got buried in the towns they moved too, mostly in California, Georgia and Texas.
edited 9th Jul '13 8:59:46 PM by TairaMai
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Making arrangements to be buried in a family cemetery sounds reasonable to me. I don't know exactly how common it is nowadays, but it's certainly within the realm of plausibility, especially if the dearly departed tends to be a bit old-fashioned / conservative in a lot of aspects.
In my story it is plot important that the character has lived in the same town ("Town A" As I will call it) for three years, but one of the major narrative arcs is him trying to visit the grave of an old resident who died in "town A" but was buried two states away In what we will call "Town B".
The deceased in question came from a very upper crust family. Would it be plausible enough for me to say the reasoning was so they could be buried in a family cemetery?
This story, discounting some surrealist elements, is supposed to be as close to reality as possible.
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