The sinkhole was caused by water in the natural fissures under the cemetery plot.

And a cemetery plot and marker add at least another $1,000 to the costs of burial.

You don't just have to pay for the cemetery plot, but the landfill charges for all your junk.

This cemetery plot was eventually desecrated by mining equipment, an act that he stood by to witness in the early 2000s.

Initially he made a living selling cemetery plots.