Thanks to Obamanomics, People are Selling Their Burial Plots to Make Ends Meet
Obama’s Economy: Americans Selling Off Grave Plots To Make Quick Money Rob Port • September 27, 2011
Posted on 09/28/2011 1:48:14 PM PDT by dynachrome
PALM CITY, Fla. - Holly Purkey, 28, is one of many Floridians trying to sell her pre-purchased burial plots for some quick cash. She is selling two burial plots in Forest Hills Memorial Park in Palm City. "This is new to me. Kind of a weird investment," said Purkey, of Port St. Lucie.
The side-by-side plots belonged to her grandparents, who had moved out of state. She bought them seven years ago. Now Purkey, a stay at home mother, wants this cemetery real estate off her hands. She would like $3,000 for the pair of plots in return. "The money would help. That's the reason why I should get these on Craigslist and do something about it," she said.
Sellers are posting online, using burial plot brokers, and also funeral homes to market the real estate. Some of those advertisements show single plots starting at about $1,000, while family plots can go for up to $50,000.
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(now I sound like Frantzie. haha)
Does it really matter what happens to your body after death?
Not to me. As long as it isn’t soylent green!
Who in their 20s buys a burial plot? People move and end up 3000 miles from their hole in the ground. Do they want to put their kids through all that hassle 40 years later?
I don’t wanna be buried, I want my brain to be vitrified and stored in am acrylic cube so that my neural map can be poured into a computer when the technology gets there and my personality can be “revived” so I can offer condolence to them for having to pay all the debt my generation racked up.
Maybe I will send the rest of my Body to Florida....
Thanks to Obamanomics, People are Selling Their Burial Plots to Make Ends Meet
Obama’s Economy: Americans Selling Off Grave Plots To Make Quick Money Rob Port • September 27, 2011
You should have a sign on the second one, we voted, did you?
That reminds me, does the dem-o-rat vote go along with the plot? Or is that sold seperately?
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