BONUS - The Paris Death Lottery: Win the Chance to Be Buried Next to a Celebrity

What if you could spend eternity next to your favorite celebrity? Paris is making headlines with its morbidly fascinating “Death Lottery,” letting citizens pay to be buried next to famous figures like Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde complete with tomb restoration and a chance at posthumous celebrity status. Could this quirky concept come to the U.S.? We explore the bizarre details, the costs, and why Parisians are both thrilled and creeped out. Tune in for Nina’s trending stories on The Jubal Show!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What celebrity would you give anything to meet? It's the
Jubil Show. And I asked the question because something is
happening in Paris, France right now that's making international headlines.
They're offering their citizens a chance to meet some of
the most famous celebrities ever. Cool the only catches. You
have to be unalived for it to happen. But also
officials are considering bringing this weird, morbid and somewhat creepy

(00:22):
thing here to the US.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'll tell you what it is next. It's the Jubal Show.
Who is your favorite famous person? It's the Gebil Show?
And what if you got to spend eternity next to them?
Think about it, just you and the hawk to a
girl spending forever. Woway could happen. And that's something that
has some citizens in Paris, France saying it's ridiculous, and

(00:47):
other people are calling this exploitive. But the city of Paris,
France is doing something ridiculous and somethink it's the best
thing ever. Also, some officials here in the US are
thinking about doing this in our country.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
It's the Paris Death Lottery. What sounds like a movie
sounds like a bad movie. I should make it a
movie now. It's the Paris death lottery, where residents are
able to enter a lottery to be buried in one
of their famous cemeteries next to a famous person.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Do they have to pay to be a part of
the lottery?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yes, okay, Paris watch the burial lottery, allowing citizens to
win the right and buy and restore historic tomb. Paris
residents must submit an application to the city Hall for
the lottery. The registration fee is one hundred and twenty
five euro whoa as well as a five hundred word
long essay as to why they deserve to be buried
next to a famous.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Not the essay.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Who's going to read the essay?

Speaker 4 (01:45):
I mean, if you think about it, you already have
to pay to get buried, so like, why not pay
to be buried to a next to a famous moment?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm just trying to.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Understand how it works.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
A lot of these places where the famous people are
buried are closed. There's not room to bury anybody. So
are you going to unearth people that are next to
the famous person or like scatter your ashes?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Like, how does that work?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, it's the initiative that's focused on reviving decaying graves
at a famous cemetery in France, with the final resting
place of Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and other famous Parisians.
Winners get to restore one of thirty tombs across three
Paris cemeteries.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Oh but the catches.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
If you win the lottery to be buried in one
of these famous cemeteries next to a famous person, they
must restore the monument within six months and plots cost
about four thousand euro. So you're winning the lottery, but
you still have to pay to be buried there. Yeah,
about four thousand euro, which is almost five thousand dollars US,
with an additional lease fee of up to twenty thousand

(02:43):
dollars for forever residency.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
So what are they gonna do?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
You lease it, so they're gonna move you at some point.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Then the next lottery winner gets to be buried next
to Oscar wild You get to be there for five
years and then move on.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I mean that's still five years. You get to hang.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Out next to him. But where do you go after
the five years? Is my question? You can't just put
me in a dumpsterp as.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
To the normal people cemetery. I guess, is there any
famous person that you would want to be buried next
to you pay that much money to be buried next
to them?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Okay, this easy?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Really?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Why not? Are you kidding me? I would love to
be back next to her, even for a year. I'll
pay her and her cats absolutely.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yes, and then I my cats and then arc Has
will both be friends. So then maybe she'll like let
me stay a little longer.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Oh my gosh, you guys be dancing in the clouds
looking down on your graves, like, yeah, look at all
the people that are coming to see Taylor with.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Some of the applicants reportedly submitted headshots so that they
know that they would still look good after death.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Hey, oh that's not a bad idea, that's a great idea.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
The most competitive category is a tomb with a view.
It's a plot that overlooks Jim Morrison's grave. Oh okay,
I don't see that. I don't just don't see the
point in this. Who cares?

Speaker 2 (03:48):
What?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Right?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Me?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
What do you mean? Who cares? Are you really?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think about this too, Like, if it was going
to be anybody, I would probably want to do like
Marilyn Monroe.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Or something like that.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
She'd be a good one just because I'm just so fascinated.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
But then, like what you.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Know, like what if I don't know, you'd get to
like I don't get like to feel their vibe, like
feel their spirits, like next.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
To Betty White you don't watch funch, you would be
great time.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Can't you just like summon them from wherever you are?
Do you have to be at the grave that well?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Because of this lottery that they're having in Paris, France,
where you can enter a lottery to be buried in
a famous cemetery next to famous people who have already
passed on. One man was arrested because they brought a
Ouiji board to the site of Oscar Wilde to ask
his approval to be buried next to it.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Why would pay arrest him for that? That's a fair question.
Is not so creepy. No, But if you're gonna do it,
you might as well ask. I'm paying already, that's nothing.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
There's also a couple's plot upgrade called the Final Double
Date and get a second half price if your partner
quote checks out within twenty five years of you Sorry,
but the name of it is so next, and apparently

(05:01):
some people are considering bringing this same idea to the US.
Inspired by Paris, American cities are looking at it are
exploring the concept of having a burial lottery to a
memo from one of the famous cemeteries in our country
said that it would help because it would help fund
graveyard upkeep and also boost posthumous tourism. I didn't know

(05:24):
that was a thing. It's posthumous tourism. Yeah, interesting, after
you die tourism is a thing.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
I thought it was like the people that like the
people would go and visit graveyards like grave sites of
the people that they liked, like that tourism is a thing.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking that they just want They're saying,
because you're getting married next to or you're getting buried
next to the famous person, It's not like people are coming.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
To visit you right right, But they'll see me. So
I have a really good picture on my tombstone next
to me? Is that girl?

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Another line from the leaked memo that they got a
hold of said it would make death profit again.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
WHOA why just you can leave that sentence out.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
It isn't that the headstones job. Isn't that where they
make money.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
But I will say it's not a bad idea if
you think about it, because there are a lot of
tombstones that they go bad after, not bad, but they
start breaking down.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
So this is a good way to like upkeep them.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I thought it was a family's responsibility to take care
of that. Maybe that's don't mind.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
I don't know it should be. But if there's no
living relatives, who's going to keep it? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:28):
One official Imperis said some people dream of living near celebrities,
Parisians dream of dying near them.