David Sloan
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And Hanover, New Hampshire had a public cemetery, the Hanover Cemetery.
And they had sufficient funds, because the town is actually pretty wealthy, had sufficient funds to keep it up.
And it's in really gorgeous shape.
And so being buried there is also a way to go.
So, uh, yes and no.
For a long time, I wanted to be cremated.
My first wife is interred in a niche in Mount Auburn because she grew up in Boston and she loved going to Mount Auburn.
She loved to take her nephews there and they all live in Boston.
So she really wanted to be part of that.
And we actually have a double arm, but, uh,
recently, someone else asked if they could, her sister asked if she could be interred there with her beloved sister when she dies.
Yeah.
And I was touched by her emotion and her relationship to her sister, so I said yes.
So that meant I was afloat and have to think about what I'm going to do.
And I made a trip to the first natural burying ground in America.
in the west side of South Carolina.
Beautiful place, and they run it gorgeously.
They do a great job.
And I was like, huh, how about that as an option?
Now, natural burial grounds are slowly growing all over the country, and maybe I could do that.