New Athens, IL. USA, October, 2003 -

Essentially, the dearly departed are symbolically placed into an online cemetery plot by way of personal information and photographs provided by family members or friends. These online cemetery plots are open to the public and can be visited from anyplace in the world with Internet access. Each online cemetery plot can contain up to 2 pictures and up to 400 words of information about the person to whom the cemetery plot is dedicated to.

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Why would someone want to buy an Online Cemetery Plot? --- "An online cemetery plot can do more than a real one." boasts the webmaster of AfterlifeTelegrams.com Paul Kinsella, "When someone visits a conventional (off-line) cemetery, the tombstones marking the graves display little more then the person's name and the years of birth and death." There is not much room for anything else. But an online cemetery plot at http://afterlifetelegrams.com/CEMETERY/ can say so much more. You can pay tribute in a detailed and personal manner to a degree that you could never do with a normal tombstone or cemetery plot."

For more information about the Online Cemetery of AfterlifeTelegrams.com - visit:
http://www.afterlifetelegrams.com/CEMETERY/

All of AfterlifeTelegrams.com's messengers have been diagnosed with a terminal illness, by a certified doctor, and have a minimal survival prognosis of about a year or less. All messengers are tested by AfterlifeTelegrams.com, to make sure that they have memorized the telegrams that the messengers are entrusted with and are periodically quizzed to make sure they have not forgotten them.
If the messenger who was given a telegram should have the good fortune to survive one year past the day the telegram was given - then the fee is refunded with the understanding that the messenger will attempt delivery, when his/her time comes, for free.
For other details about the service, please visit the site's Frequently Asked Questions page at: http://afterlifetelegrams.com

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How can this online telegram service guarantee that the telegrams are being received? "We Can't." answers the webmaster of AfterlifeTelegrams.com Paul Kinsella, "The truth is that no one knows what happens when someone dies. Since we can not guarantee delivery nor prove that a telegram has been delivered - our customers do not pay for 'deliveries' - they pay for 'delivery attempts'. What we can guarantee is that the messengers have memorized their telegrams before passing on. And that messengers have promised to do what can be done to deliver their telegrams to the addressees after passing."

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Where does the fee go? "The $5.00 per word fee is held by our company until the messenger has passed away." explains Kinsella, "Then, depending on the wishes of the messenger, it is either given to a relative, donated to a charity or used to pay for medical bills. Our company does not keep any of the fees from the sale of the telegrams."

If anyone wishes to find more information about AfterlifeTelegrams.com's services - they can find it, not surprisingly, at "http://afterlifetelegrams.com"

News worthy qualities:
-- The 4 most controversial subjects are sex, politics, religion & death. This story involves the latter two.
-- It's a great "water cooler" story.
-- This story is about something that has never been done before. This is the first Afterlife Telegram service ever created.

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