Calif. family plans to build massive $2B pyramid cross mausoleum east of Reno

[duffyduff]

I don't know why anybody would want his or her remains or his or her family member's remains out in the middle of nowhere, let alone pay thousands of dollars for the privilege:

The estimated $2 billion effort to build the massive cross just west of Lovelock off Interstate-80 near Toulon Road will be funded by people purchasing fees for interment, Nowland said.

“We only need a little bit of construction to get started,” said Nowland, who estimated the effort lasting about 30 years. “Then as people pay, we continue compacting earth, adding concrete over shell and building up the steps and walkways.”

According to Nowland, the cross will hold 600,000 niches as compartments for cremations. Each compartment can hold up to two people. Stairs will lead up the cross to observe names of buried loved ones. According to the Great Cross Alliance website, prices range from $4,000 to $30,000, depending on exterior or interior, single or double cremation vaults.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20130817/NEWS/308170008/California-family-plans-build-massive-2B-pyramid-cross-mausoleum-east-Reno


The Great Cross Alliance website:

http://www.thegreatcrossalliance.com/


Sounds like one of those time shares Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker tried to sell for Heritage USA back in the 1980s before their empire went down in scandal.

[n2doc]

1. Always a new scam. n/t

[CanonRay]

2. I-80 really needed something to make it even uglier.

I don't want to have to look at this p.o.s. when I go by.

[duffyduff]

4. I guess O.J. Simpson isn't a big enough attraction for Lovelock. n/t

[theHandpuppet]

3. I prefer this

http://www.greenburialcouncil.org/

[LuvNewcastle]

5. How fucking wasteful.

That will essentially be a 2 billion dollar dustbin. I've told my family I want to be cremated and I want my ashes to be spread at a pretty spot I've picked out. Throwing money away to house my dust in a box somewhere would defeat the entire purpose of being cremated. Some people are so vain that they have to make sure their remains are housed in a nice neighborhood. Location, location, location -- it never ends.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Looking on the bright side, it will put a few people to work.

[Chan790]

7. $2 billion?

How massive are we talking here? That's a comparatively-small $150M below the total cost of construction and reconstruction of the O2 arena in London, a project almost universally thought of as a white elephant rife with corruption and theft when it was originally constructed as the Millennium Dome.

The more I read and think about this, the more obvious it is that it's a probable scam or get-rich scheme by some new asshole trying to take advantage of the pious-and-stupid. Building an actual $2B cross in the desert would be the size of a small skyscraper capable of holding closer to 12,000,000 niches than 600,000.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Given the rabid religious fervor of today

I would say they have hit on a good idea.
Whether or not it will last, that is another question.


I DO know that folks in the deep south prefer to be buried next to their church and/or family.

[LuvLoogie]

9. It looks pretty cool.

[Wounded Bear]

10. YHGTBSM......

You have got to be shitting me.

[Shampoobra]

11. My firewall just stopped a trojan when I tried to visit the site

The Great Cross Alliance page tried to install what my firewall identifies as "Infection: JS:Clickjack-B"

[hobbit709]

12. I wonder how many hungry could be fed and sick healed with $2 billion?

[valerief]

13. That's where they'll store the imported drugs. nt

[liberal_at_heart]

14. hmmm. idol worship?