She's selling WHAT? ... ... ... a grave?

[Dave (imported)]

>>I'm speechless.

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>>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32475018/ns ... lebrities/

Eternal rest above Marilyn Monroe? Bid on it

Widow selling husband’s burial spot on eBay to pay off mortgage

LOS ANGELES - A widow is selling her husband's burial spot directly above film legend Marilyn Monroe so that she can pay off her mortgage.

Elsie Poncher has put a listing on eBay to auction off the tomb in Westwood Village Memorial Park, Los Angeles.

"Here is a once in a lifetime and into eternity opportunity to spend your eternal days directly above Marilyn Monroe," says the advertisement.

"In fact the person occupying the address right now is looking face down on her."

The burial plot is currently occupied by the late Richard Poncher, described by his widow as an entrepreneur who bought two tombs from baseball player Joe DiMaggio, Monroe's ex-husband, as the pair were divorcing in 1954.

Monroe died at the age of 36 in 1962. Poncher died at the age of 81 in 1986.

Elsie Poncher said she would move her husband's remains over one spot into a crypt intended as her final resting place if the sale was successful and she would be cremated instead when the time came.

Bidding for the plot opened at $500,000 and had reached $4.5 million by Wednesday. No one from eBay was immediately available to comment on the bidding process or to give more details.

Poncher told the Los Angeles Times that she hoped to raise enough money to pay off the $1.6 million mortgage on her Beverly Hills home.

[I Worship Women (imported)]

The economy is bad, some would say desperate. As they say, in desperate times some people do desperate things. I guess...this is one of them, though it does sound somewhat bizzare and goulish.

[Riverwind (imported)]

After the sale the Monroe estate should move her to a new location.

River

[Rusty Dai (imported)]

After the sale the Monroe estate should move her to a new location.

River

Ha ha, excellent idea, that'll teach 'em.

Or, will it make others try the same?

[FianceeUvBigGuy (imported)]

No levity, please. This is a very grave matter.

We must think deeply here...about six feet ought to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFyAqLtHq8

Yoli

"Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good myself." (Hollis Grizzard, RIP)