Tuesday, November 29, 2011

What Is The Tallest Cemetery In The World?

What will they think of next?  Just when I think I've heard of everything along comes the tallest vertical cemetery in the world (per the Guiness Book of World Records)!  You can actually go online and look it up.  The Memorial Necropole Ecumenica III (MCE) is a 32 story high rise building in Santos, Brazil.  Talk about being closer to heaven.  There is a view of the legendary Santos FC stadium (where Pele played).  There are burial spaces on all 32 floors and eventually 32,000+ people can be buried (roughly 150 tombs per floor that each fit 6 people).  Depending on location tombs can be rented for between $5,900 and $21,000 for 3 years.  And then there are private family burial tombs with memorial rooms that are available for $105,000.  It's set alone at the base of a small hill covered by a lush rainforest.  There is a lobby, a small restaurant, a chapel, a lagoon, a peacock garden, waterfalls throughout,  a parrot and toucan aviary, a goldfish pond with a fountain.  It has become a tourist attraction.  Because it is so hot in Brazil bodies must be interred within 24 hours so MCE is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  MCE has Brazil's first private crematorium; the casket is on a stage and at the end of the ceremony it is slowly lowered into the floor.  This is perhaps strange, but it is true.

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