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The worldwide phenomenon of putting memorial objects at the spot of highway deaths has prompted many governments to try and regulate these as they become more popular. An online survey is now compiling data to gauge public views on these memorials.
The law of supply and demand is alive and well as the subprime meltdown has had little or no effect on this segment of real estate. With the worldwide supply of urban cemetery plots being in a critical shortage this is really a great alternative investment opportunity.
A recent study may give you a good reason to get your high school diploma and progress on to college. A high powered group analyzed more than 3.5 million deaths recorded between 1993 and 2001. They found the overall death rate, from all causes, decreased significantly during that time period among the most educated men and women. In contrast, the death rate, from all causes, actually increased in those with less than a high school education.
Every year during the week in which May 15 occurs, law enforcement professionals, their families and concerned citizens, honor police officers who have given up their lives to protect people in the communities in which they serve. In order to protect us, on average, a police officer gives up his or her life at the rate of one every 57 hours.
Question: What happens when the statue of an American Civil Rights hero is designed by a Chinese Communist whose credits include a bust of Mao Zedong? Answer: You get a sculpture that has the cross-armed, arrogant looking stance of a Soviet Era Politburo dictator dressed in a boxy looking 10-Year Plan workers production quota suit.
In 1996 wireless carriers got Congress to pass the Telecom Act to help expedite the building of their cell phone networks. One part of the law states that local governments can not reject cell phone towers needed to fill in coverage gaps. It is a type of eminent domain provision for private industry. But of all the places to put these towers why choose a cemetery?
Just one or two decades ago it would have been unthinkable for China to open a museum displaying the history of Chinese funeral customs. The Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedung, which ushered in cremations, attempted to wipe out this part of their culture. Yet this is exactly what has just taken place in the largest city in China; and it has happened with the participation of a governmental organization.
I read with a smile the story of several seemingly common people who acted with uncommon valor and saved a life. These people were from all age groups and diverse backgrounds, yet they all had a sense of duty to act unselfishly. I wonder how we can instill this sense of service to others and into more of our society.
Once a rite of passage for drunken sailors and outlaws, in the most recent generation of adults, tattoos have become a growing trend and social statement. Some people do it because they perceive it as being cool; some find it sexy; some find it a conversation piece; some find it an act of rebellion, some find it attractive and more recently it has become a way to honor and memorialize someone who is missed and loved.
If you have ever wondered about the relevance of a library and museum of a former US President, you are not alone, CemeterySpot.com did too. That is, until we looked at the Wm. McKinley Presidential Library & Museum in Canton, Ohio.
