Boston --- In tough times, just about everything can be put on the table when a family needs a little extra money. These days, more people are selling cemetery plots, many of which they have owned for years. John Dotson took care of his final arrangements years ago.

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The U.S. Army on Friday ordered an investigation into burial and record-keeping mix-ups at the nation's most venerated war cemetery.

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Vandals in Kingston, MA knocked over a large slab of granite commemorating veterans of the Korean War, WW2 and WW1. Police also found more than 100 overturned headstones in the adjacent cemetary.

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In a drizzling rain, family and friends gather around an open grave to bid farewell to Rusty.

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The burial vault above the remains of Hollywood film star Marilyn Monroe has been sold for more than $4.6m (£2.8m).

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Want to spend eternity near Marilyn Monroe? Now you can, because the burial spot located just above the ill-fated star is going on sale for a cool $US500,000 ($602,000) on eBay.

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An artist's design for the gravestone of Germany's most famous prostitute has been rejected by the cemetery authorities for being too "slutty," newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost reported Thursday.

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For sale: classical building, marble interior, wrought iron gates, peaceful ­location, sleeps 10 comfortably, quiet neighbours.

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a growing national trend of funeral homes and cemeteries converting spaces into multipurpose community facilities, industry officials say

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A pig's head has been found stuck to the entrance gate of a Jewish cemetery in eastern Germany next to a cloth with "six million lies" written on it, police said on Tuesday.

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"Hundreds of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians held a demonstration at the Mamilla Muslim cemetery in central Jerusalem on Thursday to protest a High Court decision to allow the construction of the Museum of Tolerance on a site that partially covers the medieval cemetery.

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A Daly City woman is facing charges after police say they caught her stealing metal fixtures from a cemetery.

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"A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.

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The graveyard of the "speaking stones" on the North Sea island of Amrum is the final resting place of drowned sailors, whale harpooners and even slave traders. But now this unique burial ground is in danger of falling into decay.

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Police have detained two custodians who were about to harvest their first crop of cannabis, a source of drugs like hashish and marijuana, from a cemetery in Vietnam's capital, a state-run newspaper reported on Monday. Police took in Nguyen Manh Hung, 44, who heads the caretaker  …

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German fashion designer Wolfgang Joop is stirring up a bizarre controversy at the Bornstedter cemetery in Potsdam with a well-endowed statue at his family burial site, German daily Bild reported on Monday.

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"Dodge County deputies are stepping up their patrols around a local cemetery with a reputation for paranormal sightings."

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A church has been celebrating a victory after winning the right to evict grave-digging badgers from its grounds. The creatures have being wrecking graves at St Lawrence Church in Cheltenham for weeks, by tunnelling under headstones and leaving gaping holes.

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Relatives and friends will require a satellite navigation device to find graves of loved ones in NSW's first eco-burial site. The deceased will be buried in biodegradable coffins between gum trees in a protected koala sanctuary.

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Liberians visiting graveyards on National Decoration Day have been shocked by the desecration of tombs. The second Wednesday of March is a national holiday when thousands of people clean and paint the graves of relatives in the war-ravaged country.

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The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.

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Sydneysiders will have the chance to view the excavation of a First Fleet graveyard beneath Town Hall in the city's CBD today.

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The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad, India is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls... and the graves between the tables.

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Iranian archeologists have found four buried fetuses dating back to 2200 years ago in the country's northwestern Province of Ardebil. The skeletons, which were found in an ancient castle are intact and belong to the ancient Parthian era (247 B.C. - A.D. 228).

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"That is a big step, putting electronics on your headstone," she said. "People are used to sandblasted, granite and marble and things like that."

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