He said that if he can't find a cemetery plot, he plans to ask the government to find a grave.

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At least one person has done so, she says: a local man who bought two angels, not knowing they came from a cemetery plot.

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Note that your will and the deed to your cemetery plot, if you have bought one, should not go into your safe deposit box.

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Ray Snook, who lost his wife of 40 years about 18 months ago, had no way of identifying the vase stolen from the plot in Mount Emblem Cemetery that he plans to share with her one day.

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"I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, " Koch told The Associated Press in 2008 after purchasing a burial plot in Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space.

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However, the commission said its preferred option was to "remove the screen wall and erect a new screen wall at a more suitable location down in the service plot area" of the cemetery.

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After purchasing a burial plot in Manhattan's Trinity Cemetery in 2008.

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He died on 1 March 1986, just shy of his 73rd birthday, and his ashes were buried in the same plot as his parents in Trealaw Cemetery.

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