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1 posted on 12/17/2011 3:10:40 PM PST by NYer
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Here is the (horrifying) burial of Mozart from the movie Amadeus.

Video at above link.

2 posted on 12/17/2011 3:12:20 PM PST by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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Burial is just making sure archaeologists of the future will have something to find when they dig. I’ll go with cremation.


3 posted on 12/17/2011 3:18:13 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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I and my wife just got back from placing sprays on the graves of my In-laws.

5 years back the cemetary drove their backhoe across the bronzed Plaques of the dead and broke the marble under them. On our next trip up (It is a two hour ride) we saw my wifes parents Bronze plaque and marble base were bent and broken.This was Christmas . We went back at Easter and it wasn’t fixed —this time,We did not leave until the cemetary had fixed it while we waited.

We were there today and the others that were bent and broken 5 years ago, were still bent and broken as their families had never been back to see that they were fixed.

Thats a damned shame, but like having a parent in the nursing home, if you don’t visit often, they do not get the same care as those who do.

I might just add that an endowment for perpetual care does not last forever.
Certainly they were supposed to,but they too are being subjected to the same economic forces that your private saving account is subject too.
That savings that you put away intending to live a good life off the interest of ,is being eaten up by an interest rate of .50 or less instead of the 7% you counted on to keep you alive.The same is happening to these endowments.

The money that would have been there with a good interest rate is being eaten up by the lower rate, higher costs for the fuel for the lawnmowers, and labor for the contractor cutting and keeping the place neat.


4 posted on 12/17/2011 3:28:09 PM PST by Venturer
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Don’t want no fancy funeral....just one like old King Tut.


5 posted on 12/17/2011 3:31:34 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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I once had an impromptu picnic in a cemetery that changed my life. Amid the headstones, and in the shade of towering oaks, with a placid pool and sundial nearby, all in filtered sun, with the love of my life on a quiet afternoon...I don't think it would have been the same in a glass and aluminum highrise...
6 posted on 12/17/2011 3:58:13 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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I once had an impromptu picnic in a cemetery that changed my life. Amid the headstones, and in the shade of towering oaks, with a placid pool and sundial nearby, all in filtered sun, with the love of my life on a quiet afternoon...I don't think it would have been the same in a glass and aluminum highrise...
7 posted on 12/17/2011 3:58:28 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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This has already been in existence in NY...

The United Nations building is a thirty nine story sepulcher full of dead mans bones.

8 posted on 12/17/2011 4:21:49 PM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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Design for a mausoleum to be built on Primrose Hill in London, to hold 5 million bodies. This proposal was made by Thomas Willson in the 1820's.


9 posted on 12/17/2011 4:50:55 PM PST by wideminded
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Cemeteries should be outlawed as a complete total waste of good land!
11 posted on 12/17/2011 5:10:09 PM PST by dalereed (uity wise!)
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I can’t visit the graves of my loved ones now because the neighborhood has turned into a ghetto. I suspect that has happened in most big cities.


12 posted on 12/17/2011 5:17:05 PM PST by Wage Slave (Army Mom!)
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A cemetery is a tourist attraction?


23 posted on 12/22/2011 2:52:33 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Straight and proud.)
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