I need some help understanding what 安そう means in the following context.

Is character 3 saying that the 永代使用料 for this cemetery looks like it would be
inexpensive? This seems a bit out of place to appear where it does in the
conversation which makes me think they are saying something else.

> 辿り着いた場所は多くの引出しのある棚があるだけの薄暗い部屋だった。
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> character 1「火葬場に書かれていた案内図だとここが墓場のはずだが……」
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> character 2「間違いないな。ここが墓場のようだ」
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> 引出しにはネームプレートが結ばれ、 そこには様々な番号が彫られている。
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> character 3「なるほど、この設計ならお墓の土地に悩まなくて済むわね」
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> character 4「高いところの引出しだと首が痛い、かもしれないね」
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> character 5「お墓参りという感じがしませんね……」
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> character 2「これが墓だとすると数が少なすぎないか？」
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> character 1「古いのは別の場所で他の遺骨と一緒にされて合祀されるんじゃないか。普通のお墓でもそうだぞ」
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> character 2「え、そうなのか！？」
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> character 3「 **永代使用料とか安そうよね** ……」
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> character 1「まあ仲間がいれば寂しくないだろう。……これでよしと」
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Meaning of 安そう in 永代使用料とか安そうよね
That line sounds hilariously out of place. Readers are meant to make a chuckle
here.

永代使用料 "permanent site fee" is a very present-day word. The traditional
Japanese grave is a family grave where deceased ancestors are thought to be
dwelling. The family is responsible for constantly maintaining and tending
their grave, and grave fees are charged periodically. But as modern lifestyle
gets predominant, more and more people want to pay a once-for-all cost to
leave their personal grave to cemetery. This is 永代使用料, and it is practically
synonymous to buying a grave plot from the cemetery.

The character is joking that it would be fairly cheap to be stuffed into such
a vault if it were in modern Japan.

This type of ～そう is explained in [this
post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/607/7810), which is used to
indicate counterfactual conjecture in this situation.
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