{"id":12385,"date":"2015-04-15T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2015-04-15T08:09:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T12:09:25","slug":"the-economics-of-graveyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-graveyards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Graveyards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041515_1205_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want a business with a relatively stable demand base unaffected by recessions or the wider business cycle? Look into the graveyard business! Sarah Stone created a handy dandy guide to explain some of the key considerations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graveyards have a difficult problem: unlike most other businesses what they sell &#8211; land to bury people in &#8211; is limited and will run out.<\/li>\n<li>Luckily most graveyards are run as non-profits so they don&#8217;t have to worry too much about taxes as a part of their cost base.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s important to build a long term trust fund that can keep the graveyard financed for generations to come.<\/li>\n<li>If a graveyard does fill up its life could be extended by creating new graves in the spaces between, and under the pathways around, existing graves.<\/li>\n<li>In countries such as Germany, Australia, and New Zealand graves are thought to be more of a lease on land. After the lease runs out the remains are exhumed and cremated, creating space for a new grave.<\/li>\n<li>When all else fails cemeteries can look into multi-story stacked graves to continue to pay the bills.<\/li>\n<li>If, as eventually all business do, the graveyard goes bankrupt then the local municipality may agree to take over control of the land.<\/li>\n<li>It may also be sold to investors who would pay for the remains to be reburied somewhere else \u2013 nobody really wants to live or work in property built atop a gravesite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about what makes the United States unique in its treatment of burial plot rights, what happens to those who pre-pay for a plot after a graveyard goes under, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/happens-cemeteries-go\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/happens-cemeteries-go\/\">Today I Found Out<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want a business with a relatively stable demand base unaffected by recessions or the wider business cycle? Look into the graveyard business! Sarah Stone created a handy dandy guide to explain some of the key considerations: Graveyards have a difficult problem: unlike most other businesses what they sell &#8211; land to bury people in &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041515_1205_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12389,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions\/12389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}