矽谷最難忘之七：躺在瑪麗蓮夢露上面的代價～ 460萬美金
這是一則很有趣的新聞，一位寡婦為了要償還豪宅的貸款，將他過世的先生從墓地挖了起來，放在他先生位他準備的墓地，然後將他先生的墓地上eBay拍賣，賣了一個好價錢460萬美金，什麼樣的墓地值460萬美金，原來這位老先生的墓地就位於大名鼎鼎的瑪麗蓮夢露上方，網站上還寫這位老先生埋葬的方式，是以臉部朝下的方式埋葬，所以未來的使用者可以用同樣的方式，天天和瑪麗小姐面對面相望，果真是很有吸引力的行銷手段，多少男士在年輕時，多麼渴望一親芳澤，只可惜瑪麗小姐太早離開人世，多少男士為此遺憾了數十年，沒有想到這些瑪麗迷在晚年遇到了這一個競標的機會，因此50萬起標的墓地，居然標出了一個好價錢，讓這位年邁的寡婦除了得以還清房貸，也有餘額安享晚年。
美國人對於死亡的儀式，大概由於宗教的關係，因此表達的方式不太相同，剛開始訂報紙時，Obituary news 是我很喜歡看的部份，Obituary news 很像中國的訃聞，刊登在報紙上，描述這個人的生平，通常有附照片，內容有長有短，有的內容還會連載好幾天，大概這個人多少有許多足以令人懷念的地方吧！在儀式方面也不較沒有那麼哀傷，一般而言是對於這個人生平的緬懷及讚賞，這樣的方式沒有太多悲傷的情緒，因此西洋的喪禮通常不會看見哭泣的畫面，甚至鼓勵家人用歡悅的心情慶祝這個人的一生。
最近剛好看到劉德華的岳父過世，也看到馬來西亞對於喪禮的儀式，其實維持著很傳統儒家儀式，因此冗長的儀隊及哀傷的哭泣，讓人看來心情也難過起來，因此整個喪禮的儀式大多是悲傷難過的氣氛，但是如果換個角度想，一個肉體的離去，但是精神卻能永傳，回顧人生的各個階段，都沒有白費，人生的過程從出生到死亡，都可以是愉快的而不是哀傷；只有當我們沒有好好把握人生的每一刻，雖然是活著都覺得如死一般的痛苦，這樣的人生當然就是需要哀淒。那如果這個人的一生都是活得很精采，時時刻刻都是快樂的生活活著，我想即使肉體有一天必須要離開塵世，但是離開的那一刻仍然是快樂而不是悲傷。
Crypt above Marilyn Monroe sells for $4.6 million
The Associated Press
FILE - In this April 20, 2001 file photo, a bouquet of fresh... ((AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file))
LOS ANGELES—The price for spending eternity above Marilyn Monroe is more than $4.6 million.
That's how much the crypt directly above the actress went for in an online auction that ended Monday.
The eBay.com listing says the space at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery above Monroe is being vacated, making room for someone else. The listing also offers the detail that the current occupant is "looking face down on" Monroe, who was laid to rest at the cemetery in 1962.
Bidding for the auction started at $500,000 on Aug 14. The final bid was $4,602,100.
The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that the seller was Elsie Poncher, who was putting her late husband's crypt up for auction to help pay off the $1.6 million mortgage on her Beverly Hills home.
Poncher told the newspaper that her husband, Richard Poncher, bought the crypt from Monroe's former husband, Joe DiMaggio, during his 1954 divorce from Monroe. Her husband died 23 years ago at 81.
Jolene Mason, the cemetery's general manager, told the newspaper there is one empty crypt left in the mausoleum where Monroe is buried, available for $250,000 and located two spots above the actress and to the left.
A message left for Poncher was not returned Monday. But she earlier said that, when she sells the crypt, she'll put her husband's remains in the one reserved for her, and when her time comes, she'll be cremated.
這是一則很有趣的新聞，一位寡婦為了要償還豪宅的貸款，將他過世的先生從墓地挖了起來，放在他先生位他準備的墓地，然後將他先生的墓地上eBay拍賣，賣了一個好價錢460萬美金，什麼樣的墓地值460萬美金，原來這位老先生的墓地就位於大名鼎鼎的瑪麗蓮夢露上方，網站上還寫這位老先生埋葬的方式，是以臉部朝下的方式埋葬，所以未來的使用者可以用同樣的方式，天天和瑪麗小姐面對面相望，果真是很有吸引力的行銷手段，多少男士在年輕時，多麼渴望一親芳澤，只可惜瑪麗小姐太早離開人世，多少男士為此遺憾了數十年，沒有想到這些瑪麗迷在晚年遇到了這一個競標的機會，因此50萬起標的墓地，居然標出了一個好價錢，讓這位年邁的寡婦除了得以還清房貸，也有餘額安享晚年。
美國人對於死亡的儀式，大概由於宗教的關係，因此表達的方式不太相同，剛開始訂報紙時，Obituary news 是我很喜歡看的部份，Obituary news 很像中國的訃聞，刊登在報紙上，描述這個人的生平，通常有附照片，內容有長有短，有的內容還會連載好幾天，大概這個人多少有許多足以令人懷念的地方吧！在儀式方面也不較沒有那麼哀傷，一般而言是對於這個人生平的緬懷及讚賞，這樣的方式沒有太多悲傷的情緒，因此西洋的喪禮通常不會看見哭泣的畫面，甚至鼓勵家人用歡悅的心情慶祝這個人的一生。
最近剛好看到劉德華的岳父過世，也看到馬來西亞對於喪禮的儀式，其實維持著很傳統儒家儀式，因此冗長的儀隊及哀傷的哭泣，讓人看來心情也難過起來，因此整個喪禮的儀式大多是悲傷難過的氣氛，但是如果換個角度想，一個肉體的離去，但是精神卻能永傳，回顧人生的各個階段，都沒有白費，人生的過程從出生到死亡，都可以是愉快的而不是哀傷；只有當我們沒有好好把握人生的每一刻，雖然是活著都覺得如死一般的痛苦，這樣的人生當然就是需要哀淒。那如果這個人的一生都是活得很精采，時時刻刻都是快樂的生活活著，我想即使肉體有一天必須要離開塵世，但是離開的那一刻仍然是快樂而不是悲傷。
Crypt above Marilyn Monroe sells for $4.6 million
The Associated Press
FILE - In this April 20, 2001 file photo, a bouquet of fresh... ((AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file))
LOS ANGELES—The price for spending eternity above Marilyn Monroe is more than $4.6 million.
That's how much the crypt directly above the actress went for in an online auction that ended Monday.
The eBay.com listing says the space at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery above Monroe is being vacated, making room for someone else. The listing also offers the detail that the current occupant is "looking face down on" Monroe, who was laid to rest at the cemetery in 1962.
Bidding for the auction started at $500,000 on Aug 14. The final bid was $4,602,100.
The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that the seller was Elsie Poncher, who was putting her late husband's crypt up for auction to help pay off the $1.6 million mortgage on her Beverly Hills home.
Poncher told the newspaper that her husband, Richard Poncher, bought the crypt from Monroe's former husband, Joe DiMaggio, during his 1954 divorce from Monroe. Her husband died 23 years ago at 81.
Jolene Mason, the cemetery's general manager, told the newspaper there is one empty crypt left in the mausoleum where Monroe is buried, available for $250,000 and located two spots above the actress and to the left.
A message left for Poncher was not returned Monday. But she earlier said that, when she sells the crypt, she'll put her husband's remains in the one reserved for her, and when her time comes, she'll be cremated.
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