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HeliumAddict		2007-04-18 05:47:53 AM

...there's nothing like milking dead people out of their money. I gotta get into that business

GomezAdams		2007-04-18 05:50:28 AM

I have attended my share of funerals in Taiwan where they use feng-shui practitioners to align the casket in a precise manner. This leads to a jumbled look to the cemetery. They also don't use embalming and put the casket in a room in the house and hold services three times a day for seven weeks. The caskets are airtight as you might guess and the bodies are only buried for a period of ten year or so then they are dug up and the bones are put into jars.

According to state laws I doubt if the people buried in this Houston cemetery will be allowed to follow these practices. But whatever gives people comfort.

Mr Logo		2007-04-18 05:52:01 AM

It's headlines like this that are the bread and butter of fark.

Dr. Ellipso		2007-04-18 05:52:04 AM

Beavis_Christ		2007-04-18 06:05:53 AM

I guess they're Back For Seconds

/pretty obscure
//even though nothing's obscure on fark

Wandarah		2007-04-18 06:06:28 AM

Cute Subby, Cute.

barch97		2007-04-18 07:08:57 AM

That's the last place I'll ever go.

sakanagai		2007-04-18 09:00:22 AM

I wouldn't be caught dead there.

Staypuft_Mushmallow_Manz		2007-04-18 09:41:57 AM

Feng Shui is chinese for "New Trend," right?

/obscure
//and it's not that new anymore
/New-age mysticism make me larf.

Rawhead Rex		2007-04-18 09:47:21 AM

I live in Houston...

And this cemetary is literally RIGHT outside my office.

I'm on the 6th floor and have looked down on that construction everyday for what seems like a whole year.

It's actually quite nice looking...however, when I called the cemetary to see what all the commotion was about, they claimed that it WAS NOT for the asian community, specifically...that it was just the theme they went with for their park.
I figured she was lying, considering the pagodas and such...
Still...

It's trippy to see it on Fark.

Nepherym		2007-04-18 09:48:59 AM

funk sway?

drxym		2007-04-18 10:29:30 AM

Stupid people sure love to waste their money on all manner of ridiculous fads.

goldschlager16		2007-04-18 10:35:45 AM

Rawhead Rex

Is your office on Dairy Ashford, just north of westheimer? My Dad's office is located there and I remember seeing construction for what I thought was some Asian themed park

lukelightning		2007-04-18 11:12:03 AM

Feng shui is just about the least believable mumbo-jumbo crap I've ever seen. Even back when I believed in psychic phenomena (yeah, I used to be a believer) I couldn't swallow feng shui.