Old Forgotten Congressional Cemetery seeks more Dead Residents .. Does Brain Dead Count?

The historic Congressional Cemetery was for decades the final resting place for some of America’s most powerful and well-known public figures including senators and original G-man J. Edgar Hoover. But changing times have since left plenty of additional open space that cemetery officials are trying to fill in ambitious and occasionally humorous ways.

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"You don't have to be rich or famous to be buried in Congressional Cemetery. You just have to be dead," reads one print ad officials have used over the past few years.

Another reads: "Join the District's oldest underground community."

Margaret Puglisi told FoxNews.com on a tour this week of the 35-acre site, just blocks from Capitol Hill, that the effort to attract new arrivals is focused largely on cremations at a few precious spots in the older, more historic sections and at a soon-to-be, obelisk-style structure, in the tradition of the Washington Monument.

The 10-foot-tall structure will be able to hold 40 urns and “fits in nicely with the landscape,” said Puglisi, who studied cemetery preservation at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

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