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Minimal effort: they rot where they fall.

27 (12.8%)

Low effort: all dwarves are buried in seperate coffins but in the same room.

93 (44.1%)

Moderate effort: each dwarf will be buried in a seperate chamber.

64 (30.3%)

High effort: each dwarf is buried in a seperate room. Each burial chamber is decorated with valuables, engraved and is quite large.

17 (8.1%)

Maximum effort: each dwarf will be buried in an overengineered fashion (buried in magma etc).

10 (4.7%)

Total Members Voted: 211

[FusionDragon]

I tend to give the general population low effort, carving out space for graves in a spot between the workspace and living quarters. Dwarves who completed notable acts get a spot in the "hall of champions", a series of engraved burial chambers. Nobles get their own tombs, although particularly problematic ones are "unpersoned" and left to rot.

[CobaltKobold]

Minimal if I off them myself(I'm looking at you, first Baron-who-wanted-adamantine), moderate if they did something special, low if they just plain died.

Also, forbidding the corpse of someone seems to prevent them "claiming" a plot that you build. Or at least it worked for preventing nobles from getting in my new caskets (I haven't built any pre-death except the DM's)

[Zorgn]

Moderate. Along my main hall/shooting gallery I usually leave enough room to dig two tiles into the wall. Shove a coffin in there, wall it up when filled, for the love of god Montresor. Something I've been thinking of trying in my next fort is burying them underneath the main hall. Simple little room with a door, but the ceiling is channeled out and floored over with grates. Thus, whenever I get an invasion, the coffins below the hall get doused in blood.

[Skorpion]

I'm extremely tempted to just leave the idiots killed by camels where they fall, now.

Why the hell are these camels so VICIOUS?

[Skid]

Minimal when I'm in the middle of a large project and don't have labor to waste hauling bodies.  I'll usually go to low effort and get the bones buried once I'm done though.

It's hard enough keeping everybody in separate room when they're alive, after they're dead it just isn't worth the effort.

[Wang Commander]

"max effort" on a technicality.  They sure do go in the same magma dump as everything else!

[Skorpion]

Hmm. I'm wondering whether it'd be right to add coffins to bedrooms and label them as individual tombs, in order to save space.

[NFossil]

Separate rooms only for founders & legendaries, others hauled to coffins only when there's time.

[azrael4h]

Founders either get a lavish hall together, or personal tombs branching off a lavish hall. Military gets a joint yet lavish chamber, with heroes given personal tombs branching off of that. Civilians get a long hallway with alcoves. Nobles get magma, or the belly of a dragon or hydra or whatever else wants to eat them. If nothing is available, They go with the Kobolds, Goblins, and other useless things.

Cats get grand palaces, greater than anything my living dwarves get. Other animals get eaten.

[TettyNullus]

Minimum efforts for soliders, decorated with coffer, cabinet, archery target, armor stand and weapon rack, I call it the room or hall of champions 
Occasionally I gives the same effort to other legendary workers, with each room for each speciality and sometimes furnishings represnting the labour, or just statues, but far less often than soliders.
No efforts for the rest of 'em, they either rots in stockpiles outside, or get chucked into chasm/magma/bottomless pits.

[MuonDecay]

How do you manage to avoid the coffin being claimed?

Tombs are claimed at the moment of death, I thought. Regardless of whether the remains are available to be interred.

If you designate the coffin as a room instead as just pressing (b)urial you can make that tomb specific for one dwarf's remains.

Well yes, I knew that... but how do you keep it from being used up if the owner dies?

Or do you just remove the coffin after it's filled and replace it with another?

[Micro102]

if you never set it to be used for burial that would do it

or put a door down and lock it

[Ryan1711]

Somewhere inbetween no effort and low effort (I voted low-effort). I don't bury them, I designated their bodies and almost everything else a dead dwarf leaves (unless it's valuable) for dumping, and they get thrown down my waste disposal shaft into magma.

[Zorgn]

There really needs to be a way to make soylent green. I'm getting tired of digging tombs.

[Orkel]

Normal dwarves get moderate, each time.

Every single dwarf who is in the military has a high level one. I've never played with magma or such, so I cannot say I've ever done a maximum level one. Although I did cover one tomb with water once.. nothing special though.