text: Wow - this is outrageous.  I know that when my family buried an uncle of mine in one of the Catholic cemeteries in the Cleveland, Ohio area, the headstone was $1,500 - the plot had been purchased many years ago.  He was cremated and his ashes buried, and I know that the opening of the grave was $800.  Where are your plots located?  I would like to be sure to avoid that location....