What if the cemetery goes out of business? (classic)

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PJ Vogt

Business, Technology

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We're supposed to be buried there forever, right? Right?? Answers this week from writer David Sloane, who grew up in a cemetery and spent his adult life studying them. The surprising history of the place we go where we die and an answer to what happens when it runs out of money.

Is the Cemetery Dead? by David Charles Sloane

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0:00.0	Hello. This week we are running one of our very favorite classic search engine episodes.
0:06.0	It concerns the topic that I think is always humming underneath the thoughts in our minds that we spend a lot of energy not thinking about.
0:14.0	Maybe we is just me, but I think it's probably you too.
0:19.0	It's a conversation that started with an intriguing question
0:22.0	and then gently went a lot of places that surprised me.
0:26.6	After these ads,
0:29.0	what if the cemetery goes out of business?
0:57.9	I'm goingeele. Welcome to search engine.
0:58.7	I'm PJ Vote.
1:01.0	No question too big, no question too small.
1:05.7	This week, a question one of our listeners has been wondering about for nearly 15 years.
1:07.8	A question about the dead.
1:09.2	Hi, Lucas.
1:09.6	How's it going?
1:11.4	Doing well. How are you doing?
1:13.2	I'm doing good. What is your hat say?
1:15.6	Portland Buccaroos.
1:16.8	Who are the Buccaroos?
1:19.4	They're just like an old hockey team.
1:25.4	And what I love about the logo is that like it's a hockey playing cowboy.
1:30.4	Oh, yeah. Is he on a horse, but also the horse has ice skates?
1:33.2	Yeah, and then he has ice skates also.
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