PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment consists of the following at the dates indicated (in thousands):

	June 30, 2016			December 31, 2015
Building and improvements	$	119,634		$	117,034
Furniture and equipment		54,202			54,346
Funeral home land		11,707			11,797
Property and equipment, gross		185,543			183,177
Less: accumulated depreciation		(70,753	)		(67,050	)
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation	$	114,790		$	116,127

Cemetery property

Property and Equipment

Cemetery property consists of the following at the dates indicated (in thousands):

	June 30, 2016		December 31, 2015
Cemetery land	$	253,596	$	253,955
Mausoleum crypts and lawn crypts		80,263		80,502
Cemetery property	$	333,859	$	334,457