Legacy Matters

A Recreational Cemetery

In Indonesia comes plans for an upscale cemetery with a country club attached and they've already sold 1000 plots.

Death Takes a Holiday (WSJ, subscription only)
"We wanted to create something pleasant," says Viven Sitiabudi, president director of P.T. Lippo Karawaci, the Lippo Group unit developing the project. "Families should look at visiting their loved ones as a happy occasion rather than with dread."
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The Lippo Group, run by 77-year-old banking tycoon Mochtar Riady, saw Indonesia's middle class balking at putting loved ones to rest in overcrowded government-managed cemeteries, and sensed a business opportunity.
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San Diego Hills, which is promising never to disturb a body once buried, is already attracting interest. "It's beautiful," says Elsye Phaais, who works for the Tabita Foundation, a company that arranges burials in Jakarta for its 23,000 members. "It's different from existing cemeteries which are something frightening."