Rest In Pieces/3.0

Rest In Pieces is a crematorium run by Lara VanDusk. It is located in the South Side on Davis Avenue, behind Simone Memorial Hospital.
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==Origins==
Lara VanDusk came to Los Santos with the dream of starting her own business and building something to call her own. Always one for the macabre, Lara settled on a service that would never go out-of-fashion: cremation and burials. She prepared and created the idea of Rest In Pieces with her former business partner, Willow Bancroft, who did most of the paperwork. The two of them went into business together and established Rest in Pieces on February 25th, 2023. 
While the business was Lara's passion project, Willow saw it as an opportunity to earn money and wanted to use the newly-founded business as an opportunity to scam the government out of funds in the form of state grants. State grants at the time were commonplace and often multiple-millions of dollars worth. Lara, not wanting to rock the boat while still getting money for the business, originally suggesting a budget of $2 million; $1 million for the business itself and another $1 million as bonuses for the two of them. Willow agreed to the total but ultimately wrote $4 million on the grant proposal with the intention of pocketing the rest of the money and spending it on an S+ car. These two competing interests ultimately came to a head when Willow bragged about the scam to the workers at Otto's Autos, a known PD hangout location, and ultimately caused an audit to all the current and future state grant proposals. Lara, fuming at the fact Willow went behind her back and caused an audit by the state, was telling May "Fauna" Flowers about the incident and how she wanted to fire Willow when Willow ran into the crematorium and stabbed Fauna. Stunned by the audacity of it all, Lara was then kidnapped and taken out to a cove near Palomino Freeway. Willow told Lara that she was leaving Los Santos and gifted her the Rustbucket, an S+ Nebula Turbo, which she had spent her half of the grant money on. Lara, in fear for her life, accepted and the two parted ways indefinitely.
Thankfully, Fauna and Lara's relationship was only strengthened by the incident and the two continued to work on the creation of Rest In Pieces. About this time, Shiela Monarch was contracted to design and create the products that the shop would ultimately sell. Unfortunately, Lara needed to leave the city for a few months shortly afterwards in order to get brain surgery and the shop's creation ground to a halt until she returned. During this interim, the business That's Life was created by Cerberus and undercut her idea of doing burials. As a result, Lara pivoted the shop away from the burial aspect and entirely towards cremation and funeral services. The business finally was finished being decorated on September 12th, 2023 and the products were finished being designed shortly afterwards. Soon afterwards, Lara asked her lawyer and good friend James Haze to file the paperwork on the products for her and they were introduced the same day. A week later, Rest In Pieces was officially opened for business. 
==Creation Timeline==
* Business Approved - February 25th, 2023
* Storefront Created - March 3rd, 2023
* Decoration Finished - September 12th, 2023
* Products Finished - October 10th, 2023
* Shop officially opened for Business - October 17th, 2023
==Gallery==
File:RestInPieces Exterior 1.png|Rest In Pieces Exterior
File:RestInPieces Exterior 2.png|Rest In Pieces Exterior
File:RestInPieces Interior 1.png|Rest In Pieces Front Desk
File:RestInPieces Interior 2.png|Rest In Pieces Chapel
File:RestInPieces Interior 3.png|Rest In Pieces Gift Shop
File:RestInPieces Interior 4.png|Rest In Pieces Body Prep Lab
File:RestInPieces Ad.png|Rest In Pieces Advertisement
File:RestInPieces Inventory 111223.png|Rest In Pieces Inventory as of November 12, 2023