Yes it's true. I have lived and travelled to dozens of countries and this practice is common all over the world. There isn't enough room for all the bodies. My grandfather died in Terceira and was buried there in 1940, aged 40. When I lived in Terceira I went to the cemeteries to search for his headstone or some information on him and found out his bones had been removed 7 years after the burial. In Terceira it was 7 years I don't know about the other islands. In Guam I think it was 11 years after burial when I lived there. When I lived in the UK they leased plots for a period of 25 50 or 99 years. It's the same in Australia. Paris and Rome have famous ossuaries and catacombs
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