Could you live next to a cemetery?

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How You Can Be Buried on Your Own Property in All 50 States
If you are considering a home burial for a loved one, it is good to know that most states make it perfectly legal to take a body home from the hospital, nursing home, or other institution and bury it on your private property. Only Indiana, California and Washington State outlaw the practice totally. This means most families in America have an option other than burying a loved one in a cemetery where they will rarely see the grave and be required to obey restrictions as to the type of burial and memorial they can have.

In every state, next of kin has custody and control of the body after death. You are allowed to carry out post-death functions such as bathing and dressing the body and holding any type of ceremony you wish.
 

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Beverly Hills of the Dead: Luxury Tombs complete with Kitchens & Air Conditioning
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BY MESSYNESSY
APRIL 5, 2016
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A friend of mine just returned from travelling in the Philippines and told me I should look into a cemetery located in the capital of Manila where the dead have better houses than the living. He was right. Most of these “homes” have their own fully-functioning kitchens, bathrooms and even bedrooms where relatives can sleep alongside their buried relatives. In some cases, they live amongst the dead full-time. The tombs are bigger than most houses and line real two-way streets within the cemetery grounds. It’s dubbed “the Beverly Hills of the Dead”.

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Welcome to the Chinese Cemetery of Manila, a neighbourhood all of its own, originally established when the Chinese trading community were prohibited by Spanish colonials from using the Catholic cemeteries. Forced to create their own, it is a unique place where wealthy Chinese families have built little mansions around the graves of their loved ones since the 19th century, to make sure they feel comfortable even in the after life.

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The Chinese hold great respect their departed ones and since ancient times, they have believed that the souls of the dead live in another world and graves are their earthly residences.

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If the family can afford it, these earthly residences can be built up to three stories high.

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It has become tradition for the living to spend entire days visiting the deceased, installing household amenities such as TV sets, couches and flushing toilets inside the tombs.

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Over the years, some visitors have become a little too relaxed amongst the dead and end up living there permanently….

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There are residents who even claim to have been born inside the cemetery. The mausoleums have well-maintained patios like a quaint suburban neighbourhood, which also has a civic association, telephone lines and a local restaurant.
 

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Yes both of my grandparents are buried on land that my parents have built a house on. Ancestral land >>>>>

My parents will be buried on that land, me and wife will be buried on that land, my children and their families will be buried on that land so on and so forth
 
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Yes both of my grandparents are buried on land that my parents have built a house on. Ancestral land >>>>>

My parents will be buried on that land, me and wife will be buried on that land, my children and their families will be buried on that land so on and so forth
Gone come back as a family full of zombies...or they'll build a strip mall over y'all and you'll be parking lot zombies...I just woke up and this the first message I seen
 
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