What happens when a cemetery goes out of business?
Update: 2025-02-07
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We're supposed to be buried there forever, right? Right?? Answers this week from writer David Sloane, who grew up in a cemetery and spent his adult life studying them. The surprising history of the place we go where we die and an answer to what happens when it runs out of money.
Is the Cemetery Dead? by David Charles Sloane
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you left out one example of what happens when a cemetery goes out of business. here in Pima county Arizona there are two cemeteries that they built on. presumably no one cared that much and eventually it was forgotten that there were cemeteries there. it was only when they had to do a a archaeological clearance when the land was being redeveloped that they discovered that there were graves there and they brought to life the cemetery
Fascinating. David was so interesting! Great ep!
Renting a cemetery plot!? On second thought, it seems like a judicious use of land, but only in a world where people aren't paying đź’°đź’°đź’°đź’° for major embalming and fancy coffins that stop the circle of life from taking place.