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Publication: MTV Article Excerpt: On Thursday evening (September 3), during a private ceremony for family and close friends, Michael Jackson was laid to rest at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California, inside an enormous structure called the Great Mausoleum. The building’s architectural design was inspired by the Campo Santo in Italy, an elaborate [...] Publication: Las Vegas Sun Article Excerpt: This real estate calls for careful advertising: “Prestigious and matured garden,” “near water feature and tree,” “includes vault and headstone.” In Clark County and across the country, a tough economy is prompting people to sell burial plots intended for later use or inherited from family. The plots [...] Publication: The New York Times Article Excerpt: Death has begun to imitate life out here on the East End of Long Island, where the rich, the gifted and the beautiful gather each summer to calibrate status. The most fashionable place to be dead in the Hamptons is fully booked. Reservations to rub shoulders [...] Publication: MSN Money Article Excerpt: Even death can’t take a holiday from the great recession. Consider: More people are selling family burial plots to cover living expenses (unlike the Beverly Hills woman who auctioned off a crypt above that of Marilyn Monroe — see below). More people are dying broke and are cremated or [...] Publication: Las Vegas Sun Article Excerpt: You cannot, famously, take it with you, but there has always been one exception to that rule, one piece of property that can be yours forever. Your grave. But it’s what happens after you buy your grave but before you buy the farm that’s interesting. What happens, sometimes, is [...] Publication: South Coast Register Article Excerpt: SHOALHAVEN City Council is searching for the grantees of about 300 unused graves as the pressure for more land mounts. Under the Crown Lands Act there is a provision where older unused rights of burial could, subject to some guidelines, be revoked. Shoalhaven Bereavement Services manager Pierre Duparte [...] |
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