Community Mausoleums
When people talk about what they'd like to be done with their body after they die, you don't hear many people nowadays say that they'd like to be placed in a community mausoleum. But back in the early twentieth century, there was a push to popularize these as an affordable above-ground alternative to in-the-ground burial.
A lot of the old community mausoleums have now fallen into disrepair, but community mausoleum burial still remains an option, if that's what you want.
A lot of the old community mausoleums have now fallen into disrepair, but community mausoleum burial still remains an option, if that's what you want.
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Reminds me of the setting for the final chase scenes in "Phantasm" where the mysterious tall man gets drilled by the flying chrome ball.
Posted by KDP on 10/24/13 at 10:49 AM
Bring on the creepy, scary, haunted Halloween weird stuff :cheese:
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 10/24/13 at 02:15 PM
The Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale CA has guards to prevent the vandalism that makes for 'directed disrepair'.
Posted by tadchem on 10/24/13 at 03:07 PM
I have seen family mausoleums but never community ones. Unless, of course you count a building of niches for cremation urns.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/24/13 at 08:31 PM
Over here the process is to lay the coffin in a vault for about 3 years until the flesh has decayed then gather up the bones, put them in a box and, if the family doesn't own the vault then they are stored in above ground cubbyholes or, if even that isn't available, in a room on a shelf. After some years you can get the church to burn the bones.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 10/24/13 at 10:56 PM
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