Who is the interment rights holder?

• A. The funeral director.
• B. The registrar.
• C. The cemetery operator.
• D. The person who owns the interment rights.

Answer: (D)

Interment rights give someone the authority to bury in and manage a specific grave. The person who owns those rights is the rights holder—the one who holds the legal entitlement to interments and to make related decisions or transfers. A funeral director may arrange and coordinate the service on behalf of the rights holder, and the registrar keeps the official records, but neither of them automatically holds the interment rights. The cemetery operator runs the facility and maintains plots, yet ownership of the rights stays with the rights holder unless those rights have been transferred. So, the interment rights holder is the person who owns the interment rights.