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Final Curtain, 1999 (Exposed on May 14, 2000)

The Final Curtain Website.
In March 1999, an ad appeared in a variety of weekly magazines, such as the L.A. Weekly and the Village Voice. It read, "Death got you down? At last an alternative! www.finalcurtain.com"

The website that it led to announced the imminent launch of a novel kind of cemetery. At the Final Curtain Cemetery artists would be allowed to design their own graves before they died. The result would be a cemetery that would be part memorial, part art gallery, and part theme park. As the website explained:

"Death faces all of us. But there's a lack of imagination which accompanies our passage. Until now, the handling of death has been regimented and boring; limited by those who control it, whether the State, church, morticians, or our survivors. At The Final Curtain, we are throwing away all the rules."
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Categories: Death Hoaxes, Internet Hoaxes, Hoax Websites, Hoaxes That Fooled Journalists, Hoaxes of Joey Skaggs, 1990-1999
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