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Hugh Hefner Denies Request To Give Burial Plot To Anna Nicole Smith PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Saturday, 07 April 2007
Anna Nicole Smith's sister contacted Playboy boss Hugh Hefner and asked him to give up his burial plot alongside Marilyn Monroe for her dead sibling.  The tycoon, who hopes to be buried next to the movie icon at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles when he dies, admits he was floored by the strange request from Donna Hogan, which came days after the death of 1993's Playmate of the Year.
He reveals, "The sister asked if it was possible to be buried there, which I though was out of the blue." Hefner declined the odd offer, but not out of disrespect for Anna Nicole, who he admits he liked a lot. In a new interview with news show Extra, the Playboy publisher says, “She was magic in front of the camera... She was a most unusual model, big in every sense of the word." But Hefner admits he wasn't surprised when he heard about her death in a Florida hotel room: "It was a tragedy waiting to happen."

Playboy pays tribute to its former Playmate in the new issue of the magazine, which features classic nudes of Anna Nicole and recollections from those who worked with her on the classic photo shoots.


http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21273320.shtml

 
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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

Massachusetts is home to two Presidential gravesites, John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

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“Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.”

Walt Whitman

Grave Epigrams

Sweet spirit thou hast soared from earth,
And seraphs hail thy heavenly birth;
Thou will one guardian angel be,
Until we rise to dwell with thee.

 

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