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Originally Posted by Runscott
From talking with 71buc, I already knew Faust was buried at the Western State Cemetery, but was surprised that we accidentally parked next to it. The cemetery itself is really a pleasant enough place, and they are restoring it - adding nice markers with full names and removing the numbers - but dying at Western State in 1915 was no way to go.
Even today, it's reputation scares people being held at other places - they think that if they get sent there it is because there is no hope, and it's a one-way ticket.
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So Western State was a looney bin, er, secured facility? Because the occupants of a cemetery pretty much already had their tickets punched, except in the movies.
