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Anna Nicole Cemetery Closed to the Curious PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Thursday, 08 March 2007

The cemetery where Anna Nicole Smith was buried last week has been closed to the public. Officials at Lakeview Cemetery on Nassau in the Bahamas have grown increasingly tired of the tourists making pilgrimages to Smith's grave in the past week, and they've decided to close all entrances and hire security to keep the curious out.

Only those who have family members buried at the cemetery or people who can prove they're Bahamian citizens will be granted access.

Anna Nicole's gravesite became an immediate tourist destination, following her funeral, and has attracted buses of tourists to the cemetery, prompting complaints from locals who have family members buried there.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=14269

 
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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

Taphophilia Facts

Each year in the U.S. we bury 28,000,000 pounds of steel in vaults.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

Quote Repository

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Grave Epigrams

The memory of ye Just is Blessed.
Oh! what is frail and Mortal Man
Or any of his Dying race,
That God should think to entertain
And freely save him by his Grace.

1775

 

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