Maureen, >I think they have some nerve!! >Here in the US we have to PAY for our gravesites and headstones and <perpetual care. This does not come cheap I agree but remember some of our ancestors paid only $25 for perpetual care back in the 1880's, I have one grave that is supposed to get a flowering plant every Memorial Day, the was $11.00 back in the 1880s, so if the Poughkeepsie Rural cemetery is still honoring the deal it has cost them a pretty penny since then. Thanks, Carol L. Heap