--- gasjess@bigpond.com wrote: > Hi > Does anyone know anything about Riverview Abbey > Mausoleum > in Portland Oregon. > I believe a mausoleum is a vault which holds family > members, > (or thats what it is in Aust), is this the case in > US if so would > it be feasible to believe the whole family could be > in one spot. > Gloria > Australia More specifically, a mausoleum is simply an indoor cemetery. Sure, it's a big place. I live about 3 or 4 miles from it. But it's certainly not the only mausoleum in town. Mausoleums are fairly popular in this country. The advantage is that your buriel place can always be found, and will stay in tact forever. (Outdoor tombstones are only good for about 150 years, but indoors, your marker will last indefinitely. You won't have to worry about your stone being dug up and your buriel place being lost.) But, whole families there? Don't count on it. It's also the most expensive way to be buried. Sometimes, whole families ARE interred there; but most usually, the spots have been purchased over a period of decades, and the families are not all in one place, but scattered throughout the entire mausoleum. Nowdays, a mausoleum is sort of a counter-culture. Most people now are buried by the El Cheapo Funeral Society. They have no grave, no marker, no nothin'. ===== With best wishes, Jim Schira __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com