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Flight of the dead
« on: August 12, 2008, 04:42:09 PM »
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Bozita  (1000+ posts)      Tue Aug-12-08 10:47 AM
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Flight of the dead: Suburban families move loved ones from Detroit cemeteries
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Flight of the dead: Suburban families move loved ones from Detroit cemeteries
Charlie LeDuff / The Detroit News

CLINTON TOWNSHIP-- At precisely 8:57 a.m., under an overcast sky, Francesco and Francesca Imbrunone were re-laid to rest. A man in a dark suit stood over their remains proclaiming that they "await the resurrection."

If that promise holds true, then it would be, in a way, the Imbrunones' second resurrection. As it happens, the couple was buried nearly 50 years ago in Detroit's Mount Olivet Cemetery on the city's east side. Then their grandchildren decided to disinter them, move them to the leafier suburbs and bury them again this particular morning.

"He'd complain, 'Why did you spend the money?' " said Francesco's granddaughter, Gerry Seip. "My grandmother? She'd just cry."

By now the statistics are as well known in London as they are in Livonia. Detroit has lost half its population since its heyday of the 1950s, and every year the city hemorrhages an estimated 5,000 people more. First it was white flight to the suburbs; then with the city's continued spiral into poverty and violence, blacks began to flee to those same suburbs. And while census figures show that whites are returning to some of the nation's largest cities, Detroit is experiencing a flight of a different kind. As the Imbrunones' second funeral demonstrates, Detroit is experiencing the flight of the dead.

Read more: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/METRO08/808120367

 
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SoCalDem  (1000+ posts)        Tue Aug-12-08 04:11 PM
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26. Total waste of money..
 the elders probably would have preferred to remain where they were..

Just a "convenience" for the youngers, who now will have NO reason not to tend to those graves.. At least before, they could have said it was too far or too scary..

I'm sure they will be regular "visitors"

Somehow I think the cemetery managers out near the suburbs are "scaring" up business for themselves 
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts)       Tue Aug-12-08 11:40 AM
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4. White flight happened years ago
 Detroit is now losing middle class black people to the suburbs. 
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Cal Carpenter (103 posts)      Tue Aug-12-08 11:45 AM
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5. Even the dead people are leaving
 That's depressing   
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Must resist making remarks about Democrat voters ...
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Re: Flight of the dead
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2008, 04:54:51 PM »
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SoCalDem  (1000+ posts)        Tue Aug-12-08 04:11 PM
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26. Total waste of money..


Not if that is what they wanted to do with their money.  Money doesn't disappear when it is spent, amoeba brain.  It changes hands and gets spent again.  That's call "the economy".

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the elders probably would have preferred to remain where they were..

Cemeteries aren't for the dead.  They are for the living.  The casket filling could not care less.

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Just a "convenience" for the youngers, who now will have NO reason not to tend to those graves.. At least before, they could have said it was too far or too scary..


Judge much, bitch?  I think if these people care enough to go to the expense to move these caskets, they care enough to see the graves are properly maintained.  Idiot.

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I'm sure they will be regular "visitors"

Judge much, asshole?  You have probably never visited a grave in your life because there is nothing in it for you.

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Somehow I think the cemetery managers out near the suburbs are "scaring" up business for themselves


Somehow I think you get more stupid as you type. 
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Re: Flight of the dead
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2008, 06:42:21 PM »
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Cal Carpenter (103 posts)      Tue Aug-12-08 11:45 AM
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5. Even the dead people are leaving
 That's depressing   



So who's left to vote for the Obamanation?
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Re: Flight of the dead
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2008, 07:12:53 PM »
Quote from: Splashdown on August 12, 2008, 06:42:21 PM
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Cal Carpenter (103 posts)      Tue Aug-12-08 11:45 AM
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5. Even the dead people are leaving
 That's depressing   



So who's left to vote for the Obamanation?
I can't resist.

When the Detroit living outnumber the dead, it will be come a Republican stronghold,.
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Re: Flight of the dead
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2008, 07:18:48 PM »
You know Detroit is in trouble when even the dead don't want to stay there.
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