Rising from between skyscrapers and lush forests in southern Brazil is the tallest vertical cemetery in the world—a distinction celebrated in the Guinness Book of World Records since 1991. Founded in 1983 by Pepe Altstut, the Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica is a 14-floor cemetery that looks more like a 1980s apartment building than a home of the dead. Before turning his focus to buildings for the dead, Altstut worked in construction buildings for the living. “But,” he said in the short film A Tomb With A View, “[building the Necrópole] was…
