BURIED IN A GLASS COFFIN AND PUT ON DISPLAY FOR EVERYONE TO SEE

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MARCONNOTT MAUSOLEUM

When Joseph Marconnott died, he had a unique final wish: to be mummified and put on display. When Joseph Marconnott died in 1924, he had a very unique final wish: to be mummified and displayed for all to see. He was likely preserved using a high index formaldehyde solution and not in the traditional sense of mummification. Instead of linens and canonic jars, he is wearing a fine suit and in an open coffin, rather than a sarcophagus. For many years all could drive to the Marconnott Mausoleum in order to view Joseph. In fear of vandalism, his glass door has now been replaced with one that is stainless steel and bearing a cross. His living relatives, including his great-great nephew who has the keys still visit “Uncle Joe.”

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον 'sleeping place') implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard.

The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, a columbarium, a niche, or another edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment areas have been filled.

In many countries, cemeteries are places believed to hold both superstition and legend characteristics, being used, usually at night times, as an altar in supposed black magic ceremonies or similarly clandestine happenings, such as devil worshipping, grave-robbing (gold teeth and jewelry are preferred), thrilling sex encounters, or drug and alcohol abuse not related to the cemetery aura.

The legend of zombies, as romanticized by Wade Davis in The Serpent and the Rainbow, is not exceptional among cemetery myths, as cemeteries are believed to be places where witches and sorcerers get skulls and bones needed for their sinister rituals.