[MomMom]

Yeah, I have to agree with Olecapt. Anyone that I've ever known that has lived here and passed on here has been buried (or cremated) here as well.

Now you'd also be quite surprised as to where some of the those cremated folks I've known have wished their ashes to be "sprinkled"

I would imagine newly transplanted folks might want to go back where they came from as their final wish...maybe they already have a burial plot elsewhere

As for me, I'm staying here forever...and ever

[jfkIII]

I once visited a cemetery in Pahrump. Graves appeared to be mounds exceeding the ground height (as if dug shallow), with rocks encircling the mound. Is this tradition for the southwest?

[dynimagelv]

if youve ever tried to plant someone in solid caleche, you'd know why.....

[007 license to sell]

Originally Posted by SpamDeleted

I've driven all over Las Vegas and have yet to see one cemetery. I'm pretty sure people die in this city so where do they put them?

I have been to the various cemeteries around here and it's interesting the graves are continually decorated by family and allot of the grave stones have interesting epitah's on them.

Where I come from only very old cemeteries would have an epitaph on them that would say how the person lived and died and not just the date they were born and died and that they were loved by family members.

Also where I come from the graves could only be decorated during the holidays but here it's amazing the things that are left on the graves all year long.

And because of our diversity it's interesting what is written on the headstones.

[dynimagelv]

on the subject of cemetaries n grave markers [not in Las Vegas] I was exploring the old Government Road [old Cavalry Road from Searchlight thru the mountains into California. I stopped for a break ....wandered down into the dry wash and there was a wooden headstone with the Name anc company of a young Buffalo soldier...it has been there so long and the wind and sand had erroded around the lead tape that was used for the name and the wood was worn down about 1/4 of an inch

[gvc8]

think there's one on N Jones? just google cemeteries,las vegas or look in yellow pages.

[Grofica]

there has to be cemetaries i see them all the time on CSI HE HE HE HE HEHE

[SpamDeleted]

I'm from NJ. Please, please, please don't ship me back there when I die! Just plant me in the desert with the cacti and tumbleweeds.

[KevK]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

I wonder how many people who live in LV choose to be buried there? With such a large population having transplanted there from other parts of the country, and not having other family members close by, I wonder what percentage gets shipped "home" for burial.

Just curious...if you currently live in LV, and end up dying there, and wish your body to be buried...would your final wishes be interment there, or elsewhere?

I really don't care. Very few dead ever complain about where they live.

[Buzz123]

Besides all those mentioned above, the maps show one on Fusilier off Craig Rd, but I've yet to find it. Probably a small family plot on what was once a ranch way back when.

The big one is right across the street from Ch 3 running from LVBLN to Rancho, and Owens to Foremaster. Then there is one directly behind Ch 3 next to the Grant Sawyer state office bldg., so it's sandwiched between two "graveyards". I used to say that was why we had ghosts in our picture.

Owens wasn't always where it is now. When they moved it they thought they had the cemetery all mapped out, but in excavating for the road realignment they found bodies buried in all the wrong places, and had to move them over into the cemetery.

In the good old days, the "boys" dumped their dear departed into the lake with cement shoes on their feets, or found a nice quiet spot out in the desert to get rid of the eviden ...uh bury their friends.

I've had friends buried in the one on Eastern right at the end of the runway at McCarran. That would just keep you awake for eternity. There's one on further out Eastern too. I think it's near Warm Springs. There are lots of vaults. I want to be in a vault between two showgirls in a well lighted area because I'm afraid of the dark around cemeteries.