“Looking to sell 4 graves,” reads another. “No need for them since moving to Florida.”

Some skip the "why" of it all together. Some say they are doing so for financial reasons. And like all taboo subjects, some sellers are not up for chatting, while others are happy to, with a few sales pitches tucked in.

“Are you sure you don’t want to buy it?” Suzette Hagen, a 59-year old Long Island native now living in Henrico, Virginia, asks me over the phone. “It’s in a beautiful spot in the shade.”

I called Hagen after seeing her Craigslist ad for a burial plot for two at Pinelawn Memorial Park and Garden Mausoleums in Farmingdale, New York. At the time, she was one of 12 people selling secondhand burial space on Craigslist.

Hagen’s plot has a $7,500 price tag and notes that she's “willing to negotiate within reason.” Hagen declined to say how much she paid for her two-person burial space when she agreed to purchase it in 1987, but notes that the price of burial plots in the area have tripled since then.

“You know, it’s going to cost you about three times more by the time you’re ready to go,” she says with a laugh when I tell her I am 33 years old, and not looking to buy.

Hagen was laid off from her job of seven years at a church in Virginia in 2011. She bought the two-person plot in April 1987 as part of a larger family purchase at Pinelawn.

“Most of my family is buried in Long Island. I’ve got my grandmother and grandfather in Pinelawn, in that plot I was supposed to be buried in, and my mother is in Calverton out on Eastern Long Island,” she says. “That’s a lot of traveling. But I don’t feel that they are actually there. All it is to me is a concrete vault with a name on it. The cheapest and easiest thing is to cremate me and throw me over the ocean.”

Her list of reasons for selling the space include: not having to share the space with certain relatives in the afterlife, letting go of distant property, and bringing in some extra money.

"Originally I thought I was only allowed to sell my burial space for the same price I paid for it," explains Hagen. "I later found out that I could sell it for as much as I want to and I realized Pinelawn’s prices had gone up.”

Some ads on Craigslist are downright cryptic. For example, some sellers will list a grave as "new." Brokers and individuals I called for this story claimed to be doing a favor for a friend or a client. For every call, the bottom line is: are you buying?

Another important question is: How legal is all of this? According to New York state law, the right to use a burial plot may only be sold or transferred by the cemetery that the grave is at. The law applies to all not-for-profit cemeteries in the state, such as Pinelawn, but not to cemeteries owned by religious corporations, such as St. John’s. There's some wiggle room for grave sellers, though.