Rising waters.. flooding old grave yards...

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Let's say your Relatives for 100's of years was buried not to far away from a body of water.. Now all of sudden this body of water was rising, and flooding the graveyard... And you could not do anything about it... Would you pay to have your relatives exhumed and moved to a new cemetary? ... Would you opt in saving their 100 year old headstones and setting up as a memorial to elsewhere?.... Or would you be comfortable about your relative, the gravestone, and all involved to be taken in and buried out to see, as you understand that Nature and the Land is always changing, and that no cemetary last forever? ... Just curious on the mylotters thoughts at reading a little of an old article, and original source unknown, due to people not citing them as they forwards these articles to me. - DNatureofDTrain "Rising Chesapeake waters eroding old graveyards April 25, 2007 Annie E. Wroten is about to be buried at sea, almost 104 years after she was laid to rest in a red brick vault in a little cemetery on the Eastern Shore. Slowly, but surely, Bay water levels are rising, apparently accelerated by climate change. As it eats away at tracts of land on Hooper’s Island and other low-lying areas, the Bay is engulfing a number of old grave sites such as that of Wroten, who died in July 1903. “This is ready to topple over, take the grave with it. Same with this grave, ’’ Donny Willey, a local preservationist, said as she walked along a row of headstones at the edge of the cemetery. “One, two, three, four, five of them, getting ready to fall over the bank.” "