I spent quite a while sidelining in the funeral service business and yes, some of those monuments are very over the top.

Those are typically Russian-Jewish sects that go with those stones. The odd thing is that, in the Jewish faith, simplicity is supposed to be essential when it comes to funerals. You can find some of those at Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn (Bay Parkway and McDonald Avenue), but to a much smaller degree.

I guess that not even Judaism, the oldest faith in the world, is immune to new money.