More than 50 years have passed since a major cemetery was established within the city, and no new burial grounds are planned. But New Yorkers continue to die, some 60,000 a year. Cemetery operators have begun to resort to the kind of creative use of space that many a Manhattan landlord might envy -- squeezing coffins into every barren inch, narrowing paths, stacking coffins nine-deep. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.