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Do you visit gravestones?

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  • #32
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    I haven't been to a graveyard in a long, long time. But I'd have no problem visiting one as an atheist. They're permanent memorials for people who have died, and I see nothing wrong with that


  • #33
    Pwindedd
    Registered Users Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭Pwindedd


    I don't really know anyone who was buried to be honest. My dad died when I was tiny, he was cremated in Uk and I've only been to the garden of remembrance once. I don't remember him so it felt a bit weird to be there if I'm honest. Glad I went though.

    I quite like the idea of life gems, a small token or talisman if you like that I could wear to stay connected. Would be awful if you lost the damn thing though. I quite fancy being a teaching skeleton, hanging around in some lab or classroom for a while. I don't want to be buried I know that much.


  • #34
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    You don't need a reason for a casual visit to a cemetery. I do it while travelling, don't even think about until a question like this. On my last visit to London, for example, I had a wander through the Brompton Cemetery. I didn't go looking for celebrity graves, the only one I can recall seeing was that of John Wisden, the founder of Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack.

    Highgate Cemetery is even funkier, but is so famous that they now charge for access. :mad:

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  • #35
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Guill wrote: »
    I see graveyards as strange places.
    A field full of tiny gardens dedicated to the dead, when you look at it like that it's a nice idea, however, the reality can be very different. A lot of drab cold stone in unkempt lots and in Ireland when it's normally wet and dreary the place can look horribly grey and lifeless.

    It reminds me of crosses on the roads where people have died, the permanent ones, not the recent accident ones. I can't for the life of me understand why people erect these monuments to a place where someone lost their life,why not somewhere that person has lived their life to the fullest? Each to their own I suppose

    A friend died and his ashes were scattered across his favorite surfing spot and his childhood holiday resort that he loved so much. He wasn't spiritual and neither am I but it's great to have our last farewell to him forever associated with his life.

    I've actually seen crosses on the road in locations where they might even cause another accident or make one far worse should someone hit it. The last thing you need is a big lump of carved stone. A better monument would be a crash barrier!


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