WORLD’S FIRST INTERNET CEMETERY

WORLD’S FIRST INTERNET CEMETERY



TONAWANDA, N.Y. (Wireless Flash) – Ashes to ashes, microchips to microchips: A 46-year-old former construction worker has created what he claims is the world’s only full-service internet cemetery. For $99, Joseph J. Tata, Jr. will build you a cyber burial plot which memorializes a dead loved one through photos and messages at his UniversalPlot.com website. He also offers a “DNA storage option” in which samples of the deceased’s hair are stored in an old air raid shelter in his mother’s backyard. Tata admits his on-line cemetery hasn’t exactly caught on just yet. So far he only has two electronic graves – both of which he created for his own relatives.

Thu 09-27-01