1846
Year local landowner J.B. Stephens buried his father in what eventually became Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland’s first official cemetery
$10
Price of a burial plot at Lone Fir in 1866
$1,700
Price of an adult gravesite and temporary concrete marker today
$50,000
Maximum fine an Oregon court may impose for defacing a historic gravesite
$195
Rental cost for a white Cadillac hearse from Autumn Funerals, Cremation & Burial
100
Approximate number of volunteers who served at Lone Fir Cemetery’s annual Tour of Untimely Departures on Halloween night, 2009
75
Score needed to pass the Oregon embalmer funeral-service exam
0
Toxins used to produce a biodegradable, sustainably harvested “natural” casket from Portland Natural Caskets
$67,000
Average price of modern Egyptian-style mummification
36
Degrees Fahrenheit at which humans must, by law, be refrigerated 24 hours after death
Published in the Wine Country Weekends issue of Portland Monthly.
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