[Magdalen] cemetery plots...

[Raewynne Whiteley]

My parish has a cemetery. Assuming the costs includes perpetual care, it's
actually pretty low.  Cemeteries cost a surprising amount to run -
maintenance of grass, trees, roads, administrative costs, etc.  We don't
buy back plots either, but will accept them back as gifts to be used as
graves for "paupers' burials".

Raewynne

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> My mom is now interested in selling 'her' gravesite, purchased 40 years
> ago when my father died and she bought 2.  I just got off the phone with
> the cemetery and, of course, they do not facilitate selling, or buy them
> back... it was suggested that I run an ad in the diocesan bi-monthly
> paper.  The current cost of the plot in question? $1,400.  ... unbelievable
> (IMO). One ad is $20. and the person in the classified section said that
> often these ads run for several months ($20. x number of issues).This is an
> RC cemetery in suburban Detroit.
>
> Making 'blowing in the wind' even more appealing, for moi.
> Lynn
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