Find a Grave

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Dana Galloway reconnects folks with their deceased and estranged loved ones via findagrave.com. On this episode, I accompany her to Cypress Lawn Cemetery on one of her Find a Grave missions, just south of San Francisco. We tour the cemetery while discussing death, burial rituals, and bay area history. Dana shares how she became a grave hunter after someone found a lost family member for her.

The music for this episode was done by Golden Living Room. Check him out on Spotify, or find him here on Bandcamp.

If you're interested in pauper's graves, cemeteries, taphophilia, ancestry, or alternative burial ideas-- beware. Not only will these topics be covered in this episode as we explore the bay area's Necropolis, Colma C.A., but Dana and I will also have serious (and sometimes humorous) discussions about death. What does it mean to die, for yourself, and the people in your life? How does life change after the first time someone close to you passes? Have you thought about how you'd like to buried? Have you ever felt the urge to visit a grave?

This episode is not for the faint of heart. But if you do choose to journey with me deep into the bowls of the mausoleum, you'll come away with a sense of peace and wonder. That's what it means to visit a cemetery. That's what it means to find a grave.