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Dead market for grave sites: As family members move away from each other and cremations are more common, cemetery plots bought long ago go unused.
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Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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June 19, 2007
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Byline: Mary Umberger
Jun. 19--Think the residential real estate market is tough? Try finding a buyer for your unwanted graves.
Never an easy sell, disposing of extra burial plots has become more difficult. The latest tactic is to offer them online, via at least a half-dozen sites that some marketers tout as a "multiple listing service" for cemetery lots. And, yes, you can even sell them on eBay.
Just don't expect it to happen overnight -- if at al...
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