The cemetery owner, church, or, as in the UK, national guidelines might encourage the use of 'tasteful' and accurate wording in inscriptions.
By 1971, when a state law mandated that cemetery owners establish permanent maintenance funds, it was already too late.
In 1854, the cemetery owners, Colonel and Mrs. John Langdon Lewis, deeded the property to the city of Minden.
He said that the gravestones came from cemetery owners whose clients had stopped paying for site care.
The cemetery owners then appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, but their appeal was denied on October 18, 2007.
But even the cemetery owners did not consider the oversight rigorous enough.
An assistant district attorney said that the police had received permission from the cemetery owner to install the microphone.
With the cemetery owners now nowhere to be found, family members have banded together in a "victims group" that helps visitors search for graves.
Traditionally, funeral directors or cemetery owners began their post-mortem pitch to families by quoting the most affordable options.
Greg and James bust a junkie who says he's been dumping dead bodies and associated parts around the city for a corrupt cemetery owner.