David Sloan
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
and it has clear signs it's not being taken care of.
That's when the kids show up and start knocking monuments over and doing things.
Now, that can happen in any cemetery, but in a cemetery that is derelict, it's more open.
No.
So someplace like Mount Auburn Cemetery has an endowment in the, I don't know, somewhere above $50 million.
And I don't know the number.
And so it's not going to go out of business.
You don't have to know if you have to buy a lot.
They don't have a huge number of lots, so it's quite expensive.
They have a growing cremation niche business.
They actually have built a pretty bad mausoleum, but now they have a really nice mausoleum.
And so they've been responding to their limits of their land.
They still have a bunch of land.
And so it's not like you can't get in, but you just have to pay.
Yes.
I mean, there's two answers to that.
The first is an old cemetery with a good endowment.
But the second one is if you live somewhere where there's a small cemetery, a village cemetery, a community cemetery, a public cemetery, a town cemetery,
Those can be really quite lovely.
I used to live in Hanover, New Hampshire.