Tombstones and headstones and graveyards oh my!

[deleriumd]

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[_tomb_lilies]

I honestly do not see the harm in resting on a gravestone. As long as the person did not have a destructive weapon in hand I wouldn't really do anything, even if they were to sit on my own grandfather's stone.

Also, I am more keen towards the idea of burning people, rather than burying them. It does not require space to move anything and build monuments, not to mention you would then not have the worry of having someone deface your loved one's tombstone. The dead will always be there, in your memories. I think that's where they should stay...

[deleriumd]

My Grandmother was cremated but had her ashes buried in the family plot with a headstone. If it's your headstone then by all means, but I find the idea of someone sitting on my headstone abhorrent.

[willowwpryce]

And the idea of someone sitting on the headstone of someone who was very important to you in their lifetime.... O_o

I get waht yuo're saying here. It's not that hard to fathom being offended by it.

[danzig_jr]

Where the hell did all that come from?

[deleriumd]

It's something that has weighed on my mind for awhile and with all the Jewish graveyard grafitti and such, and pictures I've seen of "goths" lolling on gravestones I just felt like rantnig. And rant I did.

[diaryofdreams]

People think Graveyards are gothic for all the wrong reasons. The Gothic aspect of a Graveyard comes from the architecture put into building the arched monuments or some of the statues that rest in them. I don't really see any other reason why a graveyard would be so 'cool.' Its a place where the dead rest. People should leave it at that.

And yes, there are those that think it would be awesome to have sex in a graveyard. I think sex was meant for a bedroom or anywhere inside a home. Not in a public place, and especially not in a graveyard. :\

[deleriumd]

Ugh don't even get me started on sex in a graveyard, that is just.. oogie.

I've taken pictures of the old marble angels but ti was from a distance, standing on the walkway alone.

Plus there's alot of ani semitism in rural areas and Jewish graveyards have been decimated. Headstones knocked over, spraypainted slogans and such. That makes me even mader

[dame_phantasm]

I think it is extremely disrespectful to sit upon someone's grave. I think it is a mockery of death and life.

But I do love pictures of people weeping by them.

[deleriumd]

It is!

[naturelf]

"Do not stand by my grave and weep/ I am not there; I do not sleep"

[aesthetika]

I'm amazed to see someone knows this poem.

[lamestofthelame]

Did it ever cross your insipid little mind that your ass is squatting on the marble headstone of someone who spent a lot of money preserving the memory of a loved one NOT WANTING YOUR ASS ANYWHERE NEAR IT?
I see these benches all the time that have "In Memory of So-and-So," and all I can think is, what, a bench? A nine-year-old girl in my area died of manslaughter and the elementary school she went to has a bench dedicated to her. I mean, is that honestly all you can come up with? It's just so pathetic to me.

[deleriumd]

The few people that died when I was in highschool had trees dedicated to them.

Gah I'd rather have a tree than a bench.. that seems.. odd.

[sonofcain]

I used to live right by the Mount Pleasant cemetary and took walks through there often. It's incredibly beautiful. I've seen lots of people jogging through there with their sweatbands and speedos. I thought it was pretty strange. The cemetary is almost like a park, but still... The weirdest thing was seeing tombstones shaped exactly like a small bench. Are these meant to be sat on?!? Have you seen these?

[becka_mouse]

sorry i know you dont know me. I saw your name through a friends, read your gravestone rant and i whole heartedly agree. I think its rude to use gravestones and such as your personal sitting space. If people want to recreate the whole coffin scene from The Crow, why cant they do it on their own property somehow?
Anyway, I saw a couple making out on a womans gravestone a few weeks ago and flipped out at them, saying it was rude and disrespectful to do then i saw this and i thought, good! I'm not the only person that hates disrespectful people.