cemeterys as sculpture gardens  

Some of
the older ones really are sculpture collections. There was a PBS (?) show on this the other day (maybe you saw it ?) -- a cemetary in GA (?) hasn't sold a plot in over a hundred years (only family members owning plots are buried there now) but it is still a lovely place for people to go. . .
A military cemetary is certainly a dull place -- unfortunately.

Great Idea, but... Don't mean to be the Grim Reaper
Great Idea but... given the varying sizes of sculptures it would severly limit the number that might be buried there. Not to be cold-hearted but cemeteries are really terrible wastes of prime real estate, to say nothing of the difficulty in cutting the grass around intricate based sculpture, multiplied by hundreds or thousands, it's why Forest Lawn in LA has flat plaques on the ground so they can take a 120 inch or more gang mower across an entire field of the departed, cutting 10 feet or more in a single pass.

passing by a cemetery with...
passing by a cemetery with my Dad when I was 10 he said to my Brother and I. "Do you guys know how many people are dead in that cemetery: ?
I was feeling smart and said 946 my brother said 625
He said you guys
are both wrong
"they are all dead" funny how one remembers that .
Every time i pass a cemetery with my kids I ask the same
question but they all say They are all Dead Dad!!!

I was thinking of having it...
I was thinking of having it more like a normal park with only a few scupltures around which several people get buried or have their ashes interred.
The person would get to choose which sculpture they like the most before they die..."hes under the Moore"
Maybe a plinth for each one with plates for names running around the edge.
Personally I want a 2001 monolith or some Donald Judd bricks.

Now I see.
Excellent idea!!! Perhaps the "garden" could have the "planted ones" radiated out in a spoke pattern or as in the positions of the compass out from the center point of the sculpture in rows.. My error in envisioning thousands of sculptures as in a contemporsry cemetary." I guess I could'nt see the sculpture park for the tombstones," my apologies.