This article was originally published Oct. 26, 2017. When you drive around the tiny town of Colma, just south of Daly City, you can’t help but notice a certain redundancy of scenery. Tombstones. A ...

At the dinner table, his father, an Italian immigrant with a seventh-grade education, talked about his day as a gravedigger. Graveside arguments. Children’s burials. A body that had turned to bones ...

I had the entire pet cemetery to myself. And contrary to all horrifying Stephen King notions of that scenario, it was actually really nice—just late day tranquility amid a lawn full of tombstones ...

Colma has long been known as the home to 1,000 times more dead people than living people, and that’s becoming a problem. The tiny town of Colma is merely two square miles, and nearly 75 percent of ...

The town of Colma is packed with 1.5 million people, but you’d hardly know it, since only 1,190 of them are living. The rest are what they refer to here as “the silent majority,” the permanent ...

Nila Negri sits in front of her dog Rusty's grave site at Pet's Rest cemetery in Colma, Calif., Wednesday, June 14, 2006. The city, also home to 1.5 million deceased humans, is running out of room for ...

COLMA, Calif. - Police in Colma, a town known for its cemeteries, are now investigating a rare homicide, with a victim shot at a cemetery. "Apparently he was visiting a gravesite, memorializing ...

A Bay Area city has 100 times more dead residents than living ones, but it’s the deceased who face a potential housing problem. Known for its extensive cemeteries, which serve most of the Bay Area, ...