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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion
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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (12409)7/19/1998 7:36:00 AM
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Invest In Tombstones!!
VanGogh123
Jul 18 1998
10:40PM EDT

Year 2000 Problem Will Live On Even Longer in Cemeteries

ARRE, Vt.--There it is in the lower right hand corner of a headstone in Hope
Cemetery. The number "19" standing alone.

"That could be a problem," said Charles Day, a sandblaster who spends much of his
time during the warm months adding dates to headstones in Vermont cemeteries.

There has been plenty of talk about the problems of computers that will reset their
dates when the calendar hits 2000. But what about gravestones?

Gravestones?

Yes, gravestones.
Scattered throughout cemeteries across the country are headstones that have already
had the first two digits of the year of death, "19," set in stone. The headstones await
the arrival of the forward-thinking people who had their stones engraved before
their deaths.

But in the end, those folks might be outdone by their own foresight and longevity.
Day pointed to the headstone of a still-living woman born in 1904. The "19" waits
for the digits to make up the year of her death.
"There is no good way out," he said.
Actuarial tables give the 94-year-old woman a 62.5% chance of still being alive on
Jan. 1, 2000. The stone already bears the name of someone who was born
in 1900 and died in 1961. Presumably, the stone was erected in the early 1960s.

"I don't know that that far back people were thinking that far ahead," Day said.
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