Neatorama » Imperial http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:32:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cemetery in Foreclosure http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/13/cemetery-in-foreclosure/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/13/cemetery-in-foreclosure/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 06:48:18 +0000 Alex http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/13/cemetery-in-foreclosure/

The funeral industry is usually recession proof. After all, as Arvin Starrett, spokesman for the National Funeral Directors Association, said "The honest-to-goodness truth of the matter is that everybody does die."

So it goes to show how bad the current economic situation has become: a cemetery on Highway 86 in Imperial, California, is in foreclosure!

Annika Mengisen of Freakonomics Blog has the answer to the question I’m sure you’re all thinking of: will the …, um, occupants be evicted? Link

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