Originally posted by silent thunder
I always thought owning a graveyard would be a great investment. Funeral homes, too.

I was thinking about adding that to my post as a suggestion. Yes, that's capitalizing.

If you like cars, buy a hearse (not a Hurst Olds, just to be clear!).

I can't remember where but I seem to recall morgue space being at a premium because of so many deaths and families with lack of money for burial.

There must be a way to do some discount service. Hmmm.

Edit: Ah, yes...wonderful DTW

DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit.

Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the corpses. So they stack up inside the freezer.

"The number of new claims for jobless benefits jumped more than expected last week. Claims had fallen in five out of the previous six weeks, and most economists expect that trend to continue but at a slow pace, with employers still reluctant to hire."

"I applied for jobs all over the U.S. There just weren't any," said Reasbeck, who speaks no Chinese but had volunteered at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In China, she said, "the jobs are so easy to find. And there are so many.

Many do basic work such as teaching English, a service in demand from Chinese businesspeople and students. But a growing number are arriving with skills and experience in computers, finance and other fields.

A big draw of working in China, many young people say, is that they feel it allows them to skip a rung or two on the career ladder.

“It’s China’s fault that I’m still here,” he said. “It’s just so cheap to start a business.” It cost him the equivalent of $12,000, which he had in savings, he said.

Among many young Americans, the China exit strategy is a common topic of conversation. Mr. Stephens, Ms. Berman and Mr. Misium all said they were planning to return to the United States eventually.