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Crypt-flation: the rising costs of graves and mausoleums in Melbourne
(www.theguardian.com)
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Boomers be buying up investment graves
Next thing they'll be renting them out. A yearly lease, and your family have to pay to have you dug up and moved every year so they can lease it to someone new. If they can't afford the costs you'll end up stashed in a secret warehouse with bales of "recycling" and barrels of unknown chemicals. The "efficiency" of capitalism at work.
In Germany, if your family doesn't pay the upkeep, your headstone gets tossed and someone else is buried in top of you with a fresh headstone and decorations