Comments on: You’re Not Dead Until You’re Forgotten http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2007/08/07/youre-not-dead-until-youre-forgotten/ Welcome to La Antigua Guatemala's blogumentary through daily photographs and descriptive narratives of a Spanish Colonial Town embedded between coffee plantations, flower farms and volcanoes. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:30:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AC http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2007/08/07/youre-not-dead-until-youre-forgotten/comment-page-1/#comment-10211 AC Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:26:38 +0000 http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2007/08/07/youre-not-dead-until-youre-forgotten/#comment-10211 Hi again! Actually you´re kind of right, the niches are for people who can´t afford a mausoleum... or people who don´t want to spend a lot of money on that. I found out with one of my family members and she says that a Mausoleum for 4, 6 and 12 bodies actually costs more than Q20,000 or US$2,500 that means a loooot of money I think, and that´s in the Cementerio San Lazaro which is public, can you imagine for the Cementerio Privado San Lazaro? A niche actually is property of the Muni, so they´re kind of rented, the people pay around Q10 or US$1.25 every year, but, if you don´t pay every year, they can take the body or whatever is in there and rent it to other one... My grandfather bought one for his family around 25 years ago, this is one of the first ones near the entry, so that´s a good place in those times, and it cost around Q7,000 for 6 bodies and now is full of course...so I better start saving :o) Hi again! Actually you´re kind of right, the niches are for people who can´t afford a mausoleum… or people who don´t want to spend a lot of money on that. I found out with one of my family members and she says that a Mausoleum for 4, 6 and 12 bodies actually costs more than Q20,000 or US$2,500 that means a loooot of money I think, and that´s in the Cementerio San Lazaro which is public, can you imagine for the Cementerio Privado San Lazaro? A niche actually is property of the Muni, so they´re kind of rented, the people pay around Q10 or US$1.25 every year, but, if you don´t pay every year, they can take the body or whatever is in there and rent it to other one… My grandfather bought one for his family around 25 years ago, this is one of the first ones near the entry, so that´s a good place in those times, and it cost around Q7,000 for 6 bodies and now is full of course…so I better start saving :o )

]]> By: patsy poor http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2007/08/07/youre-not-dead-until-youre-forgotten/comment-page-1/#comment-10204 patsy poor Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:54:59 +0000 http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2007/08/07/youre-not-dead-until-youre-forgotten/#comment-10204 in the bible 2000 years ago Christ talks about burial chambers and mention they were white washed. interesting . in the bible 2000 years ago Christ talks about burial chambers and mention they were white washed. interesting .

]]> By: sompopo http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2007/08/07/youre-not-dead-until-youre-forgotten/comment-page-1/#comment-10193 sompopo Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:33:54 +0000 http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2007/08/07/youre-not-dead-until-youre-forgotten/#comment-10193 I like this picture and I especially like the way the front of some of the niches resemble the front of a small home with the roof overhang and a flower box for flowers. This is an excellent series of post. Mabie one day you can post some pictures of those Mayan pyramids. That would be awsome. The Mayans were a remarkable people. I like this picture and I especially like the way the front of some of the niches resemble the front of a small home with the roof overhang and a flower box for flowers. This is an excellent series of post.

Mabie one day you can post some pictures of those Mayan pyramids. That would be awsome. The Mayans were a remarkable people.

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