The NY Times alerted us Tuesday to a trend among musicians and others of buying burial plots near their idols. Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx seems to be a popular "plot" area. Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Illinois Jacquet are buried there. A certain jazz saxophonist spent $25,000. to purchase land near the Duke. The practice spread to Brooklyn and elsewhere. "Not surprisingly, graves near the final resting places of famous people can carry premium prices." But the item that raised my eyebrows was as follows"A crypt above Marilyn Monroe's in a cemetery in Los Angeles had a winning bid of $4.6 million on eBay in 2009. The owner, a widow who wanted to pay off the $1 million mortgage her husband had left behind, moved his remains 23 years after he had been buried there." And you thought death was permanent!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/nyregion/prime-real-estate-at-the-cemetery-is-a-plot-next-to-an-idol.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&_r=0
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