Publisher: Forbes Magazine
Author: Betsy Schiffman
Publish Date: November 1, 2002
Article Excerpt:
Considering the fact that in some cemeteries a 20-foot-by-20-foot private plot of land can cost as much as $1 million, death can be a pretty expensive proposition.
Although the most exclusive cemeteries offer burials at (somewhat) affordable prices, wealthy individuals who want to enjoy death in the same style they were accustomed to while alive can easily spend several million dollars on a final resting place. There is, of course, nothing new about the very rich spending a fortune to create memorials to themselves. Look at the Great Pyramid of Cheops, for example, or the Mausoleum of Hallicarnassus, both among the seven wonders of the ancient world.
But while today’s millionaires who are contemplating their mortality may not be able to call upon the talents of a Michelangelo, they are still able to ensure their tombs have such attributes as Tiffany windows and a state-of-the-art stereo system that plays a requested tune 24 hours a day.
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