Publication: The Denver Post
Author: Jason Blevins
Date: October 4, 2009
Article Excerpt:
With money tight and work elusive, Deena Mangan is selling her jewelry, coins and camera collection. Also on the table: eternity next to her family.
The Littleton resident is listing her family’s last burial plot at Fairmount Cemetery for sale on Craigslist and eBay at nearly half cost, joining countless other Americans who are postponing tomorrow’s death plans to pay today’s bills.
“I’m out of work, and I’m selling anything and everything I can to stay afloat,” said Mangan, 57, who has gone one year with no job prospects in her information technology field. “I don’t want any ceremony. I’m donating my body to science and then cremation. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.”