Back to school …. forever
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by DPS
Notre Dame University and the University of Richmond in the United States have joined a growing group of colleges that allow alumni and faculty to intern their ashes on school grounds.
For a few thousand dollars, graduates can have their urn placed in a memorial wall or columbarium.
College officials are watching to see if the trend, which began at the University of Virginia in the early 1990s and has spread to at least eight other schools, leads to bigger alumni donations.
Even if it doesn’t, it still puts a new twist on the phrase ‘hanging around campus’.
