David Sloan
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Now there's a whole bunch of people that don't believe in cemeteries anymore.
They don't want to be remembered.
Common's too strong, but it's growing.
I mean, this has two ways it goes.
One, people say, I don't want anything.
Throw them in the trash.
Yeah, who cares?
And then there's those who say, well, I want it to be natural.
And I don't think the modern cemetery is natural.
So I'm going to get buried in a natural burying ground, in a green burial ground.
So most cemeteries have tried to become more natural.
And they remind people that until we started embalming, and even then,
Relatively few people were actually embalmed until the 20th century.
Well, it's not that simple.
Because those old cemeteries, even if they weren't embalming, they dedicated that space to that person.
Americans are not Europeans.
So if you're in Germany...
When you have someone die, you put that person in the grave space, you rent it.
You can rent it for 25 years or you can rent it for 99 years.
But you rent it.