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Cost of dying set to rise in Princeton - especially if you don’t live here

Dying in the Town of Princeton is a lot cheaper if you happen to live here.
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Dying in the Town of Princeton is a lot cheaper if you happen to live here.

Prices for grave lots in the municipally-owned cemetery are more than six times what they cost residents, and they have been for several years.

“That’s fairly common practice anywhere in the province,” said James Graham, director of finance.

Graham said the fee structure helps to ensure the availability of the cemetery for residents, and discourages out-of-town bargain hunters.

Presently it costs a resident $330 to purchase a grave lot, and non-residents pay $2,290.

A portion of those charges, $120 and $240 respectively, are earmarked for a perpetual care fund to provide cemetery maintenance.

A new fees and services bylaw, which received two readings at a recent council meeting, would see increases across the board for cemetery services.

Graham said the prices have not been adjusted in some time, and have not kept pace with other facilities in the area.

The largest proposed increases are for grave space.

The bylaw, if adopted, would increase the cost of resident graves to $460, and to $2,650 for non-residents.

Most of the other cemetery services, like grave preparation, liners and charges for burials after 2 p.m., on weekends or on statutory holidays, are proposed to increase five per cent.

“The Town of Princeton is still one of the cheapest places in B.C. to spend eternity,” said Graham.

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