Is it disrespectful to walk on people's graves?

SharpshooterTom · 28-04-2012 08:13PM #1

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??

Helix · 28-04-2012 08:14PM

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

FloatingVoter · 28-04-2012 08:15PM

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.

Blatter · 28-04-2012 08:16PM

Depends on the intentions. If you're trying to clean it or put flowers on it, no.

If your doing it to shorten your path or just doing it to be a massive dick, yes.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 28-04-2012 08:16PM

Depends on the circumstance really, if it can be avoided then don't.

MisterEpicurus · 28-04-2012 08:17PM

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"

Jesus Shaves · 28-04-2012 08:18PM

Who cares, the person under you is dead anyway

said the necrophaeliac

Jimmy Iovine · 28-04-2012 08:18PM

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?

stovelid · 28-04-2012 08:19PM

A pile of bones won't get overly offended by it I'm sure.

Fenian Army · 28-04-2012 08:19PM

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

A.Partridge · 28-04-2012 08:19PM

Huh ?

No Atari Jaguar option ?

Sunnyisland · 28-04-2012 08:19PM

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.

boomkatalog · 28-04-2012 08:21PM

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.

Milk & Honey · 28-04-2012 08:22PM

Gnobe wrote: »

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?

?

His mother died 100 years ago. What age is he?

charlemont · 28-04-2012 08:24PM

realies wrote: »

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...

Cybercubed · 28-04-2012 08:26PM

realies wrote: »

Its there last place to rest, Do not disturb.

They wont know they're dead.

Fighting Irish · 28-04-2012 08:26PM

Nope, not at all!

MarkR · 28-04-2012 08:28PM

Where my grandmother is buried, it's a very old cemetery. There isn't paths between one row and the next. So yeah, I do.

Once you have respect.

Blatter · 28-04-2012 08:28PM

stovelid wrote: »

A pile of bones won't get overly offended by it I'm sure.

That isn't the point.

What if a complete stranger took a shit on one of your grandparent's grave?

Would you be offended?

woodoo · 28-04-2012 08:29PM

Yes it most certainly is. Anyone saying otherwise is a gulpin.

stovelid · 28-04-2012 08:29PM

realies wrote: »

Do not disturb.

Not much chance of disturbing them in fairness.

KittyeeTrix · 28-04-2012 08:33PM

Personally I would find it very disrespectful and would never walk over the grave of a person.......
Obviously the dead wouldn't know but I'd know and that would disturb me!!

hairyprincess · 28-04-2012 09:04PM

Milk & Honey wrote: »

His mother died 100 years ago. What age is he?

Exactly what I was thinking!!

GarIT · 28-04-2012 09:11PM

I wouldn't see a problem with it at all. I wouldn't do it though because I wouldn't want to annoy or upset someone else for no reason. I've only ever been to a graveyard once and don't plan on going much at all for at least 50 more years so its not a problem got me.

28-04-2012 09:13PM

If you do it with respect, it's fine (e.g. if you have to in order to tend to it or if there's no way around it).

If you're having and oul' stroll across with no regard for the meaning of the place, you're being disrespectful and incredibly ignorant.

franciebellew · 28-04-2012 09:14PM

I farted whilst robbing the flowers off a grave one time.

Did I stand on it? F*ck no

woodoo · 28-04-2012 09:15PM

franciebellew wrote: »

I farted whilst robbing the flowers off a grave one time.

Did I stand on it? F*ck no

Robbing from someones grave is unbelievably scummy.

Awful_Bliss · 28-04-2012 09:15PM

It's not disrespectful if it's Charles Haughey's grave. You'd be doing the country a favour!

minidazzler · 28-04-2012 09:18PM

There are ~125 cu ft of dirt between me and the dead person, what difference does it make?

paddyandy · 28-04-2012 09:22PM

If you walk on a grave and you wake in the night with something tugging at yer ankle then it's time to stop it .

IM0 · 28-04-2012 09:25PM

only if you dont dance

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