Read more cemetery stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/31248/cemetery.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:17:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71525/japanese-dying-to-get-into-highrise-cemeteries.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHigh-tech, high-rise cemeteries are sprouting across Japan as a shortage of land drives up prices in ground-level graveyards. The cemeteries, typically five or six stories high, store the dead in urns which can be retrieved by robots and delivered to mourning rooms by visiting family members with a swipe of...http://www.newser.com/story/71525/japanese-dying-to-get-into-highrise-cemeteries.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 13 Oct 2009 3:29:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71105/arlington-mix-up-creates-another-unknown-soldier.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagArlington National Cemetery has buried an unknown soldier for the first time since 1984 because of bungled paperwork. Workers burying a service member in Grave 449 in 2003 found human remains in the ground when paperwork had marked the plot as vacant. The plot was left unmarked until recently when...http://www.newser.com/story/71105/arlington-mix-up-creates-another-unknown-soldier.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 4:53:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70349/hanged-census-worker-was-naked-bound-witness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA part-time US Census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the body two weeks ago. "The only thing he had on was a pair of socks," Jerry Weaver said...http://www.newser.com/story/70349/hanged-census-worker-was-naked-bound-witness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 25 Sep 2009 20:17:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70170/in-tough-times-families-reselling-burial-plots.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPeople struggling with bills and other earthly concerns are unloading burial plots at a fast clip. One Florida cemetery made as many “buybacks” in the first half of this year as in all of 2008, another in Ohio reports a similar spike, and ads are plentiful on funeral property websites...http://www.newser.com/story/70170/in-tough-times-families-reselling-burial-plots.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Sep 2009 13:50:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68840/jacko-crypt-drives-up-plot-prices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Jackson has sent property prices soaring for the graves surrounding his final resting place, a sales rep at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale tells TMZ. The cemetery has hiked the price of plots near the late singer's tomb as much as $3,000 from the usual $7,000 since...http://www.newser.com/story/68840/jacko-crypt-drives-up-plot-prices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Sep 2009 4:55:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68104/honor-kennedy-by-fixing-arlington.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTed Kennedy will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery today, but for many soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan the wait for an Arlington burial is a lot longer, writes Mark Benjamin at Salon. Kennedy himself once intervened for a Massachusetts family who was told they’d have to wait at...http://www.newser.com/story/68104/honor-kennedy-by-fixing-arlington.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 29 Aug 2009 15:06:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67152/desperate-for-cash-people-sell-grave-sites.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen she got sick, Debbie Jenkins lost her job, both her houses, and burned through her savings. Living in an unheated garage and still unable to pay rent, she discovered her last remaining asset: two cemetery plots. She posted them on Craigslist, declaring they “MUST SELL!!!” It’s an increasingly common...http://www.newser.com/story/67152/desperate-for-cash-people-sell-grave-sites.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 18 Aug 2009 8:15:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66896/sleep-with-marilyn-wife-selling-hubbys-crypt-above-monroe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA former Beverly Hills resident is about to get a rude awakening when he's evicted from his crypt above Marilyn Monroe so his wife can sell it, reports the Los Angeles Times . Elsie Poncher says her hubby was a "helluva nice guy," but she needs the money to help pay...http://www.newser.com/story/66896/sleep-with-marilyn-wife-selling-hubbys-crypt-above-monroe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 14 Aug 2009 2:04:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64132/babies-graves-vanish-from-ill-cemetery.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPolice declared the whole of Burr Oak cemetery in the Chicago suburbs to be a crime scene last night, after hundreds of families reported empty or missing graves, including an entire section of the cemetery called Babyland, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Relatives will be barred from the site for about...http://www.newser.com/story/64132/babies-graves-vanish-from-ill-cemetery.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 11 Jul 2009 5:50:19 CDT