Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Amazing the range of methods people want to be remembered by.
Once dead you are forgotten, as far as I am concerned, when it comes to one's grave unless it is like an Egyptian pyramid.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

As long as someone remembers them, they are not completely gone.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

My mother just died a couple of weeks ago. She is gone but not forgotten!
Some good images.

Don

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Because she is your mother.
The generations that never knew her will likely not really care except as a curiosity on some subject if it were brought up.

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

they can put me in a bag and take me to the tip. I HATE cemeteries

niteman3d Loc: South Central Pennsylvania, USA

The most peaceful places on earth as a rule. Nice sequence!

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

That was then - now it's put the body in a bag and throw it in the ocean!


Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.... my brother took up genealogy a few years back. He has found information, including newspaper articles and obituaries about some relatives as far back as the early 1800's. Census reports documenting my grandparent's families when they were children, military press releases about the plane crash that killed an uncle while he was training to fight in WWII, things like that. When relatives came over from England and on what ships, which ones fought in the Revolutionary War, that my paternal grandmother, last name Fender, was related to the guitar genius, etc. So with or without a grave marker, with all the information on all of us these days, any future generations that have an interest ill be able to discover a whole lot about any of us! So be kind in your posts here!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

My father wanted to be buried in a body bag and no embalming like those he served with who died in the Pacific. He was a Marine infantry lieutenant.
Once in a while would comment on it.
The cemetery prohibited it so a simple coffin was used.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Nice set Architect

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

RSPB Loc: New York

Nice shots - they remind me of the cemetery in Troy, Ny that has Uncle Sam's grave. There is a beautiful stone chapel at the entrance, and many graves like the ones in your pictures. When I was working a couple of days in Elmira, NY I saw signs pointing to Mark Twain's gravesite, so of course I had to visit there. A very small gravesite at a day use area on the Sacandaga River has a large percentage of stones for very young children, apparently victims of the epidemic in the early 1900's - sadly it is not maintained, but at least the power company that owns the land has put a small fence around it so the day visitors do not disturb it. And the cemetery where my parents are is of course a favorite, and when we drive around it we stop at the sites of many other locals that we have known and loved. When I was in college I had a friend in the Bronx whose parents lived in a little house at the end of a dead end street with an entrance to a huge cemetery. It was his favorite place to go for peace and quiet. We were there on New Year's Eve one year, and in the middle of our walk around we started hearing a distant roar- it was the fireworks display in NYC and the sounds of the crowd and fireworks was a distant muffled roar- I'll never forget that visit. I don't find cemeteries creepy at all.

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Very nice photos.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Toast me and scatter me to the winds! Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Stan

Dannj

A conversation I had with my Dad when I was about six:

Dad: “What’s the most popular place in town?”
Me: “I don’t know. What is it?”
Dad: “The cemetery”.
Me: “The cemetery!!! Why??”
Dad: “Because people are dying to get in there!!!!”😳😂😳😂

We both thought it was pretty funny.