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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump offers golden graves for silver-spoon set
In this Tuesday, July 20, 2004 file photo, a stone sphinx is shown at the entrance to the Woolworth mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, in New York. Burial in a Woodlawn mausoleum can cost more than $1 million. By comparison, to have one's final resting place at Donald Trump's Bedminster, N.J. Golf Club could be a bargain. Trump has proposed a 1.5-acre cemetery the golf course where members pay as much as $300,000 to join. A Trump spokesman says it's anticipated there'll be another membership level for those who want to be buried there. Photo: Kathy Willens / AP
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) They say you can't take it with you when you die, but that's not necessarily true for the wealthiest Americans like Donald Trump.
He announced this week he is considering building a 1.5-acre cemetery next to his high-end golf course in Bedminster, where members pay a lifetime fee of as much as $300,000. If they want to stay beyond that, they most likely will pay a membership fee that includes burial.
It may be among the pricier final resting places, but if it gets state and local approval, it'd be a bargain compared with some of the country's other swank cemeteries.
Putting one's name on the most permanent of marquees can reach several million dollars at the most exclusive cemeteries a far cry from the median $6,560 for a funeral in 2009, the most recent yearly figure from the National Funeral Directors Association.
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Trump offers golden graves for silver-spoon set (Original Post)
n2doc
Feb 2012
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DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)1. Look, just because we're bereaved that doesn't make us saps! n/t
ret5hd
(20,523 posts)2. somethin' tells me it ain't gonna be heirs paying for this.
Initech
(100,104 posts)3. And so the concept of "lifetime membership" is taken way too literally here.
If they can pay $300K for a funeral that hasn't happened yet, they can pay some damn taxes!