Back to school--for eternity

May 18, 2007
Some colleges are offering alumni and faculty the chance to have their ashes kept on campus for ever.

For a few thousand dollars, the University of Richmond and a half-dozen other universities are giving alumni and faculty the opportunity to have their ashes maintained on campus in perpetuity. Three more universities — Notre Dame, the Citadel and Hendrix College—are building similar memorials, known as columbaria.

Click here to read The New York Times article.

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