‘Your number is up’: German town handles cemetery overcrowding

Finding somewhere to rest in peace is, in many parts of the world, an increasingly difficult task.

As graveyards fill up, the competition for spaces is growing – and the authorities are left having to decide how to allocate them.

Now, a German town in the region of Bavaria thinks it may have an answer for burying its dead.

Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane reports from Berchtesgaden, Germany.