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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/rest-in-peace-with-your-best-friend.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A growing number of Americans want to share their final resting place with their best friends - even if they are dogs" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-rest-in-peace-with-your-best-friend.jpg" alt="A growing number of Americans want to share their final resting place with their best friends - even if they are dogs"/></a></p>
<p>A growing number of Americans want to share their final resting place with their best friends &#8211; even if they are cats, dogs or iguanas &#8211; and are reserving plots at pet cemeteries.</p>
<p>The 200-member International Association of Pet Cemeteries and Crematories estimates that a quarter of pet cemeteries take in humans and the demand is growing.</p>
<p>&#8220;We hear about it all the time in our membership, people asking for it,&#8221; said Donna Bethune, the group&#8217;s executive secretary.</p>
<p>Pet owners &#8220;oftentimes maybe don&#8217;t have extended family and their pet pretty much was their family, like their child to them. And there&#8217;s not a family plot where everyone&#8217;s going to be&#8221;, she added.</p>
<p>At New York&#8217;s 115-year-old Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, 20 miles north of Manhattan, president and director Edward Martin said the remains of about 700 people had joined the 75,000 or so buried animals.</p>
<p>Inscriptions on the mostly small headstones at Hartsdale, which claims to be America&#8217;s first animal resting place, reveal the sentiments of some of the people who decided to join their pets after death.</p>
<p>Mr Martin said human remains had been added to animal graves at Hartsdale since a woman had her ashes sprinkled over her dog&#8217;s grave in 1925. Burying human remains goes back to at least 1950 and the scattering of ashes is no longer permitted.</p>
<p>He believes the increasing number of humans &#8211; 10 or 12 in each of the past few years, compared with three to five before &#8211; may be related to &#8220;more people getting used to the idea of cremation&#8221;. Hartsdale and most of the other pet cemeteries contacted said they require humans to be cremated before joining their pets.</p>
<p>Doyle Shugart, who owns two Deceased Pet Care cemeteries in Bethlehem and Douglasville, Georgia, and is chairman of the cemetery association&#8217;s ethics and standards committee, said regulations varied from state to state. Pets were banned from most human cemeteries, he said, but some allowed an urn of animal ashes in a person&#8217;s coffin.</p>
<p>But at least one famous pet cemetery is closed to humans. David Stiller, president of the board of directors for the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park, where Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s cat and Humphrey Bogart&#8217;s dog are buried, said: &#8220;We don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re a human cemetery and we don&#8217;t want to get into that.&#8221;</p>
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