From K-QED.

When you drive around the tiny town of K-K-K- of Daily City, you can't help a notice a

certain redundancy of scenery. Tombstones, a florist. More tombstones, another florist.

What Hollywood is to movies, what Detroit is to cars,

Colma is to dying.

And all this death got Concord listener Kathy Coleman to ask,

I was wondering what had happened in the past to preserve Colma for cemeteries.

Nearly three quarters of this 2.2 square mile town is zoned for

cemeteries. There are 17 of them in total making coma the last place you want to

be when the zombie apocalypse goes down.

This is a Bay Curious podcast where we answer a new question about the Bay Area each week.

I'm Olivia Allen Price. Today we're unearthing the tale of Colma.

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Here's reporter John Brooks to tell us how Coma became a necropolis.

People are just dying to get into Colma.

Okay, that's an old joke, but the fact is, the Colma dead far outnumber the living.

It's 1431. 1431 of the living. It's 1, 131 of the living.

It's above ground residence, we call them.

This is Pat Hatfield of the Koma Historical Association.

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