David Sloan

Now, can we talk about you going back to work?

Memorial Day, Easter, Christmas, somebody's birthday.

Those are the big days where people will show up and fix the grave, put out flowers, do things.

The rest of the time, there's the regulars.

People will come on a weekly or biweekly basis, and they'll sit and talk to their loved ones.

They're sort of out of that older culture.

But that newer culture is, oh, let's take the grandkids and see grandmother at the cemetery because they met the grandmother, but now she's passed away, and we'll go on her birthday.

And we won't go back for another year, or we won't go back at all.

So, of course, it's changed.

I wrote a book in 2018, Is the Cemetery Dead?

It is a good title.

And the reason that I wrote it with that title was there's all these pressures.

In 1960, it's very different than today because very few people were cremated.

And most people who died had a full-body burial.

And so there's a considerable amount of money at any period for a full-body burial.

Cremations are much less money.

So it really changes the business side of the cemetery.

Cremation is like Napster for cemeteries.

It is.

I don't know if we go that far.