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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