Jake Otteson

Could you help us with something?

I go over.

She's standing with a man that I don't recognize.

And she says, we would like to bury Donna's ashes.

And I knew right away who she was talking about.

Donna was an actor that I'd worked with many years before at the festival.

And sadly, I had heard that in the past year she had been battling a terrible cancer and she passed away.

And now the man there had been married to Donna and brought her ashes thinking

We could like scatter a few around in this place that she loved.

But then they saw me in the graveyard and they thought, well, we could do one better and have a real ceremony in the middle of the day.

And she said, who do we have to ask for permission to do this?

And immediately I was like, no one.

Who cares?

I'm the gravedigger.

Let's do this.

So then we had a plan.

They went to get people who had known Donna, who might want to be a part of this ceremony, and I, because I'm the gravedigger, prepared the graveyard.

Now, I don't know if you've ever tried to dig a hole with a prop shovel.

But it's like smashing the ground with a rock.

And it was taking a long, long time.