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28-04-2012, 20:13   #1
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Is it disrespectful to walk on people's graves?

Do you think its disrespectful to walk on someone's grave??

I was in a conversation with a friend who got really annoyed when he heard someone walk over his mothers grave, carelessly. But in reality we are all dead, does it matter? Especially if the grave is over 100 years old?

I personally couldn't care, the point of humanity is to die and provide nutrients to the soil and the earth to which people walk on anyway. Is this wrong and disrespectful to walk on someone's grave??
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28-04-2012, 20:14   #2
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its a cultural thing, here in canada it's not because the gave is just the headstone, people stand over where the bodies are buried when paying their respects
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28-04-2012, 20:15   #3
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No pissing, ****ting, or fornicating on my grave or I'll come back and haunt you all.
Knacker drinking without leaving a tinnie for me is forbidden.
Other than that, walk on.
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28-04-2012, 20:16   #5
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Depends on the circumstance really, if it can be avoided then don't.
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28-04-2012, 20:17   #6
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Some people are just ****ing old fashioned..."I wouldn't let them walk all over me alive, certainly don't want it done when I'm dead"
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28-04-2012, 20:18   #7
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Who cares, the person under you is dead anyway










































said the necrophaeliac
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28-04-2012, 20:18   #8
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It all depends on yourself and what you think. I never do it and don't particularly like when people do it. Walking on the borders is fine but walking straight across seems a bit stupid when there are plenty of decent paths running through all graveyards.

The worst I've seen though is a woman who used to sit on top of my granny and grandads gravestone every year at the graveyard mass. That's the height of disrespect in my book. Told her to eff off one year and she hasn't been back since. Plenty of people bring fold up chairs to the masses, why couldn't she?

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28-04-2012, 20:19   #9
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A pile of bones won't get overly offended by it I'm sure.
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28-04-2012, 20:19   #10
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Of course its disrespectful, not to mention annoying, takes ages to get the stones level etc


I wouldn't walk on someones grave unless I was cleaning it or something
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Huh ?

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I would go out of my way not to walk on peoples graves, People have chosen that spot where they want to be when they die, Out of respect for them people I would not. Its there last place to rest, Do not disturb.
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With the amount of people that have come and gone before us, there's surely 'graves' everywhere? You can't walk where nobody was ever buried, I highly doubt every body has been put in a marked grave inside a graveyard.
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28-04-2012, 20:22   #14
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I was in a conversation with a friend who got really annoyed when he heard someone walk over his mothers grave, carelessly. But in reality we are all dead, does it matter? Especially if the grave is over 100 years old?

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His mother died 100 years ago. What age is he?
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28-04-2012, 20:24   #15
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I would go out of my way not to walk on peoples graves, People have chosen that spot where they want to be when they die, Out of respect for them people I would not. Its there last place to rest, Do not disturb.
That would be my thought on the matter too.
Although I want some Weed seeds scattered on my grave...
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