Burial

"Typically, when we think of death, we don’t often think of the logistics of it. A burial tends to be an emotional experience which is typically designed to be a sacred process to bring closure. But in reality, death involves business and politics, just as much as it does grief. That's certainly true in the U.S., where  funerals have become an intricate business operation, but it's also true in countries across the world.

In this essay “Rent-A-Grave,” former Rolling Stone editor Alex Mar reflects on the loss of her grandparents in Greece, where a permanent grave site can cost over $200,000. The exorbitant price has given rise to a "ghastly business" of grave rentals. Mar describes her trying experience of having to unearth, exhume, and transport her grandparents to a mass grave site simply because she couldn't pay the high price of a permanent burial."

Read the whole thing on : http://www.policymic.com/articles/73525/a-look-at-how-a-cash-strapped-european-nation-deals-with-its-dead.

I don't know whether this story is true, but if it is,  it is ghastly and terrible ! But aren't all graves rentals ?