Chicago Cubs fans to get special cemetery

Fans of the Chicago Cubs baseball team will soon have the option of being buried in a cemetery designed to look like Wrigley Field.

The cemetery is called Beyond the Vines and should be ready in October 2008.  Plans include 280 niches for cremains (“eternal skyboxes”) and a stained-glass scoreboard.

According to Cubs fans will get cemetery that looks like Wrigley Field, SI.com, July 11, 2008:

Near each urn will be a bronze baseball card with a photograph of the deceased fan [which] can be dressed up in a Cubs hat, Cubs jersey or full Cubs uniform. It could also include the dead fan’s ‘statistics’ such as date of birth, date of death, and maybe their favorite Cubs game and favorite Cub.

There’s even talk of piping in Cubs games on speakers so nobody, living or dead, will miss an inning. Not only that, but if this idea appeals to more than 280 Cubs fans, the cemetery has set aside enough land to add a right-field wall and a left-field wall.

The price tag for interment will cost as much as $5,000, the “grand slam” package that includes pick up of the body and delivery * * * for cremation * * *, a service, and, of course, the baseball card plaque and urn.