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Do You Want to be Buried or Cremated?

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0:00 [Music] Do you guys want to be buried or cremated? >> Cremated. Cremated. >> Yeah. >> Created. >> Cheaper for my family. >> Oh, >> you're surprised by her answer. >> What do you want? >> No, I I just I wanted to know what motivates the the preference. >> It what? >> Like what motivates the preference for >> style? What was your answer? >> Cremated. >> Oh, okay. I think we're all cremated, huh? >> Very my cremation. I think I think we're slanted here. Doesn't that look like we're like leaning? >> Oh, that's your Japanese eyes. >> I'm just taller. I'm just taller. >> Leave it. Leave it in. >> Taller. >> Um, no. I I think Cream made it too, I think. But do you have to pay more? >> ████ it, dude. >> No, you technically have to pay more for the landlot and the casket

0:50 >> and then also like what does your body just slowly deteriorate to like Earth's like lovely worms and bugs? And >> that's kind of nice, too. People like that because you're giving back to the earth apparently. >> Sure. >> If you just throw the ashes in the ground. >> No. If your if your body is decomposing in there, >> right? >> Without a casket. >> You're also you're also decomposing in a casket though. >> That's what I'm saying. >> Oh, >> so they like given the casket back to the earth. >> Oh, is the casket like uh biodegradable like that? >> I think it is. It's wood. >> Yeah. Wouldn't that be cool? >> Biodegradable caskets. >> But remember they had a place that said they were putting people in in like trees. you become a tree. And then they were lying or something. They It turned out they were just like dumping the body somewhere. >> I would love to be a tree. >> Yeah, there was like a scam. Like they were telling people that it was like an eco way of like uh burying you and then they were just like launching them all off a cliff somewhere.

1:40 >> Do you know it cost Do you know it costs 50 G's to excavate a body? >> 50 G's? >> You got a graveyard? >> Yeah, cuz >> how and why do you know this? When you get older, you you have different concerns. Before you're like, "Oh, should I get a a a Tootsie Roll lollipop or should I get a bubble gum lollipop?" >> And then when you get older, I'm like, "Man, my grandpa's on this side and then my dad's buried on this side. My uncle's buried on this side." >> I go from lollipops to your grandpa's buried. >> It's coming around. >> No, cuz you're like eight. And then like next thing you know, you're ████ 40. >> And then you're like And then you're like, "Holy s███." >> That's how long it takes to get to the center of Okay. >> 32 years. And then I was like, damn, this is kind of a pain in the ass because you're like all over the place. And I'm like, if I barely can keep track, let's say something happens to me. Ta will definitely not know where the ████ anything is. So I'm like, it

2:31 might be a good thing to get everyone put in the same spot. So I was at Rose Hills and I asked them, I'm like, "How much would it cost to esavate?" And then uh she was like, "Just the E exc es excavation alone is Did I say it right?" You saying it very different ways each time. >> It's a hard word. >> Excavation >> is a hard word. >> Excavation. He says escalation. >> My excavation. >> Just the evaporation is 50. >> Evaporation would be the best. >> That actually be the best. >> So it's 50 G's per person and that's not even putting them back in. >> Oh, it's just to take it out. >> It's another 30 gs. >> I mean, I'm not surprised by that. the whole process >> of just the cost of the of the verbs are ████ it's going to be like 500 G's >> and then I got to buy new plots of land.

3:23 >> Oh yeah. >> Um so the nouns are going to be another ████ like I don't know however much it is now like 20 30 G's a pop. I'm like >> and that's only for when you buy a plot you're buying it for 50 years. >> I don't even know. I think you're supposed to buy for life. No >> it's a time limit. I think when you buy them >> after 50 years like you have to like your family's like pay for it again. >> Really? >> Oh, >> I don't think it's for life by default. >> Either >> cuz my parents were like they were they were like really excited when they told me. They're like, "Hey, guess what? We bought our plot at Rose Hills like same spot and they were like uh they told me it was like for I think like 50 or you can get 50 or 100 or something." >> Maybe it's 100. >> Yeah. >> Maybe that's their way of like if we fill up we're going to start just digging out the old ████ and replacing. >> They will. Yeah. If you're not paying, they'll probably stack them. >> Yeah, they're probably like, "Oh, dude, you guys like their descendants are

4:14 visiting them. ████ them." >> But they got some old ass stone heads that look like, >> dude, >> like medieval times. >> Okay. It says in most cases, you buy this right in perpetuity. >> Oh. >> Um, >> okay. >> But not every case. >> What about Rose Hill? Did you ask about Rose Hill? >> Perpetuity is though forever. >> But is that like perpetuity with an asterisk or is it like literally forever? Uh, let me see if is a rose hidden looking it up. >> Burial plot. >> Type in California. California and ask about uh the Angel View Terrace >> and see if Bart's deal is still available. >> Did you not each hill has a name and ████ >> Yeah. It says, "Yes, a burial plot at Rose Hills >> overlooking the city of LA." >> Aa escalation. Uh, a burial plot at Rose Hills is considered a perpetual right of

5:04 interment, meaning it's yours forever and does not expire. Although the cemetery retains ownership of the land, you're purchasing the right to use the land for burial purposes for perpetuity. >> But, you know, sometimes we got some old ass gravestones and no one even visits anymore because the people that knew them all died. >> Yeah. >> So, like what's that do? It just sits there. >> Just sits there forever. >> They stack them, I think. >> Yeah. >> It's a waste of time and space. If you excavate, can you um like sublet the old plot >> like on top? That's tight. >> So, people do sell plots, but I don't know if you could sublet. >> You should you should be able to >> sub. >> Yeah, cuz like if you're 6 feet, they could still do the 3 ft >> business, dude. >> Three feet? >> Yeah. >> Oh, that's that's uh plot hacking cuz some some couples are stacked on top of each other. >> That one dude pay to be on top of Marilyn Monroe.

5:54 >> Wa. That was the ultimate sense, >> but uh she's like in a mausoleum, so she's like on an apartment complex death style. >> And then he's like downwards above her or something. >> Wo. >> I don't know if >> that still seems like an invasion of privacy >> to be able to place. >> That's how thirsty dudes were with for her. >> That's what I'm saying. >> Yeah, but that's that's how thirsty they were. >> I probably have to be buried. I don't think I could do cremation. Why you want Jesus to come back and wake you hot? >> No, no, no. Because my my family, they don't want me to do cremation. >> What is the reason? >> The religion. >> What does the religion say? >> Uh, thou shalt not burn yourself. >> I don't know. No, it's the same. It's the same reason they don't my like it's weird. Like my mom was like she when I

6:44 was getting my license or she was like don't be an organ donor. I was like why? That's you guys are all literally in the business of like organs and donating and all that and it's like it's not like a thing of uh putting like your organ in another body or something. It's not it's like against 7th Adventist religion. >> I didn't know that. >> I cremated my pops and then we buried them so there's still a site to visit. >> Oh, that's cool. Yeah. >> You buried his earn? >> Well, I didn't do it but then they did it. >> Oh, >> they're they're big on like having funerals. Filipino. Like I I don't know if like most Filipinos are, but they just love like big funerals with the casket and everyone gets to be there and cry and they can visit your grave. Like I don't I think I have one family member that's cremated. >> Damn. At least like not since I've been alive. Everybody's buried. Yeah. It's like a big thing. >> The >> Don't people like steal stuff from caskets? >> Grave robbers. Yeah. There's a lot of

7:36 good finds. >> Every single time they grave robbed, they have to pay $50,000. So, it's kind of like, you know, >> pretty deep. At least at Rose Hills, it's pretty ████ deep. >> Isn't it 8 ft? >> It's like Storage Wars. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. >> Would you want to be buried with anything valuable? >> I I want to be cremated, but then I do like being buried, so I'll just be cremated and buried. >> I like the idea of it. >> No, cuz I think it's cool to have a site. >> Yeah. People could go and visit and like do whatever, have a picnic or whatever to play Frisbee. I saw this ghetto ass uh graveyard when I was in England and I looked over and I don't know if someone did this ████ but a lot of the head like the tombstones were flat and it looked like they played dominoes with that ████ >> and it went ba. You know how like when you flick the dominoes it's all down. >> God dang. >> So like it was a ████ ton. I was like did the wind blow this ████ or like

8:26 >> stone dude? No way. >> Wait they don't have they don't have tombstones like you know like fire hydrants. When you see a fire hydrant, it's like this big, but like really it's actually like this long. >> No, dude. The tombstones I saw, >> maybe they broke them. >> It looked ergonomically wrong. Like it looked >> No, like it looked like >> flat and long like this. >> And then Saul's like, "Why would you make a tombstone like that?" And when it's it just looked like that. >> That's what falling over looks like. >> Yeah. But that I was like, "Shouldn't you dig like shouldn't you bury it like that deep?" But it all looked like >> maybe maybe over time maybe over time it rose up. >> That's why it's called Rose Hills. >> Get this man a doctorate degree in whatever the hell he just said. >> In perpetuity escalators. [Laughter]

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