I ran across this in some news articles today. I thought it was interesting and would share it with everyone. It shows some differences in cultures. Big Money for Final Resting Place Thu Apr 10, 9:59 AM ET BEIJING (Reuters) - Sprawling graveyards have become the latest token of wealth and influence for Chinese, after premium homes and luxury cars, with a healthy 14-year-old youth boasting his own tomb, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The teenager's grave, choice white marble, was near Tianjin, about three hours' drive from Beijing, the Guangzhou Daily said. Beside the tomb were graves for five of his family, just two of whom are dead, and the cost of the luxury complex was estimated at more than 300,000 yuan ($36,240), it said. One slot was for the teenager's future wife, it added. The Chinese tradition of burying the dead was considered "feudalist" and banned in 1954 by the Communist Party, which then adopted cremation in a bid to save shrinking arable land. But sleek graveyards have managed to find their way back over 20 years of market-oriented reforms with a rising middle-class craving for social prestige. Thanks, Drew Slate Fort Worth, Tx