Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community Cemetery

[Andrew Netherton (andrewnetherton]

I think it's a great idea.  For one, once you have a natural burial
site you're pretty much guaranteed that the land will never be
developed, from what I understand.  It could dovetail nicely with land
conservation/naturalization plans.

As for resale, I would assume you wouldn't be burying anyone in the
front garden, but in a discreet area.  While I'm sure the kids would
make a lot of hay about having bodies buried on the property
(especially tonight - how topical of you!) I don't see it affecting my
decision to buy.

Regards,
Andrew Netherton
Laurel Creek Commons
Waterloo, ON, Canada

On 10/30/06, Dahako [at] aol.com <Dahako [at] aol.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> It wouldn't bother me.  My parents both donated their bodies to  medical
> research, as I plan to do.  When we got my mom's ashes back, my dad  buried them
> under some cherry trees in the front yard. No other  marker.  Lots of people
> have family plots around there and it is not  an issue at sale time (unless it
> is a historic pre-Civil War plot, in which  case it drives values up).  This
> was in rural North Carolina.
>
> -Jessie Handforth Kome
> Eastern Village Cohousing
> Silver Spring, Maryland
> "Where we had at least three events in the commonhouse dining room
> yesterday: a pancake breakfast, a Progressive Neighbors political event, and a  
> board
> meeting.  Plus, the landscape workday started by the front door.  Today, it's a
> potluck dinner and a community-wide meeting with the county  parking and
> trash people.  Tomorrow, it's Halloween poetry and  trick-or-treating."
>
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