When James Chappelka brought out his cemetery plot deed, he didn’t take time to read the fine print. It was only years later when he wanted to sell the land that he discovered an unusual clause.
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 Fallen Soldier Corey Shea WASHINGTON – Denise Anderson lost her only son in the Iraq war. She’s determined not to lose her fight to be buried with him in a national veterans cemetery. Army Spc. Corey Shea died Nov. 12, 2008, in Mosul, with one about a month left on his tour of duty in Iraq. He was buried at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, about 50 miles from his hometown of Mansfield, Mass. A grieving Anderson, 42, soon hit an obstacle in her quest to be buried in the same plot with her son. That chance is offered only to the spouses or children of dead veterans; Corey Shea was 21, single and childless.  The High Cost of Dying Sometimes, a funeral goes as smoothly as a family could hope for: Jack Sanders had talked frequently with his mother, Joyce, about her funeral plans. A frugal woman, she disdained high prices for anything. She wanted cremation and a simple burial with a graveside service and a few friends. No big fuss. No viewing. So Sanders, 52, of New Sharon, Maine, arranged for precisely what she wanted when his mother died in August at age 68. Chuck Kincer, owner of a number of funeral businesses in Maine, did everything to specifications and charged $1,250. “It was perfect,” Sanders said after the graveside service at the family plot. But other times, things spin out of control: In the National Funeral Directors Association’s FAQ on Cremation, I found an interesting answer to a couple questions that should be considered by those who want their ashes sprinkled in a favorite place after their death and cremation. If I’m going to be cremated, why would I want my remains to be placed in a columbarium, or interred or scattered at the cemetery? Why shouldn’t I just have them scattered in the sea or in some other place of my choosing?
Why is having a place to visit so important?
In her personal blog, The Root of All Evel: Surviving the Loss of a Child, Julie McAnary describes bringing her baby boy home after he was stillborn and cremated.
Read her story, and share her journey as she shows him around at therootofallevel.wordpress.com…  Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cindy47452/2876871918/ Publisher: American Catholic Article Excerpts: Dust to Dust: Lifting the Ban Works of Mercy “I was comforted by the priest’s willingness to work with us and respect Dad’s final request,” says my sister, Rita Waldref. “We chose Scripture readings and music that spoke of Dad, his faith-walk and his family.” As Dad would have liked, the funeral Mass was a community and family celebration… Grave Responsibilities Where have all the Catholics gone? To other cemeteries, for one thing: The Vatican no longer mandates that Catholics be buried in a Church cemetery. Another reason is cultural practices that suggest burial of the remains is not necessary… Publication: Associated Content Article Excerpt: …She is the last surviving member of her family and none of her children or grandchildren would be using these graves. So what to do with them? She could have sold them, but that might require a lot of traveling from her home over 50 miles away to secure a deal, which she did not want to do. She thought about selling them back to the cemetery, but she would only be able to get what they originally cost, 64 dollars and one-half (64 ½). Not $64.50. The 100 year old deed listed the cost at 64 & ½ dollars. Plus she would only get the cost for each grave, $10.00. She finally decided to donate the graves. The funeral director recommended a Catholic organization as the cemetery was a Catholic cemetery and suggested the St. Vincent DePaul Society. Mom thought this was an excellent idea and was very excited at just being able to view the original 100 year old deed. When her and my brother returned home, she asked me, her daughter, to find out how she should go about donating the two graves to the St. Vincent DePaul Society. I looked up the society for the St. Louis area on the Internet and dialed the main number…. Publication: USA Today Article Excerpt: So you think London, population 8 million, is crowded with the living? There are many millions more under the soil of a city that has been inhabited for 2,000 years. And London is rapidly running out of places to put them. Now the city’s largest cemetery is trying to persuade Londoners to share a grave with a stranger. “A lot of people say, ‘I’m not putting my Dad in a secondhand grave,”‘ said Gary Burks, superintendent and registrar of the City of London Cemetery, final resting place of close to 1 million Londoners. “You have to deal with that mindset.” The problem is a very British one. Many other European countries regularly reuse old graves after a couple of decades. Britain does not, as a result of Victorian hygiene obsession, piecemeal regulation and national tradition. For many, an Englishman’s tomb, like his home, is his castle. Read the whole story (or watch the video broadcast) at www.usatoday.com… Publication: Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN Article Excerpt: … People could buy three plots for $5 when Riverside opened in 1871, he said. But people often left before using them, or maybe buried one child there and then moved on, forgetting about their plots, he said. “It’s amazing how many are not ever used,” he said. The cemetery with 6,000 plots has started the legal process for reissuing the sites by putting notices in the legal newspaper, he said. It has to go through several more steps but hopes to take over the plots by the end of the year if no heirs can be found. It will sell them — $500 for one, $900 for two, $1,200 for three — and use that money for cemetery maintenance, Johnson said… Publication: eHow.com Article Excerpt: Cemetery Plots are a unique class of real estate to invest in. The price is low compared to traditional real estate investments and the profits can be huge as you also help out families in need. You can get started with just a few hundred dollars and some research time, the easily double or triple your money over and over. Steps include:
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