I just had a thought. Stay with me as it doesn't happen often. I thought this picture was of too little interest or too dull to post when I had a sort of epiphany {sudden enlightenment, incontinence, psychotic episode, delusion}. How often do you see park benches in cemeteries directly beside 'recent' burial sites and headstones? By recent I mean from yesterday's internment going back say 100 years or so. Would you agree not many? Say you go to visit grandpa's grave 2 weeks after his burial and you find that, whilst there is no headstone in place yet, a bench has appeared since the funeral with two tourists enjoying ice cream whilst going over their digital photos of the cemetary 'cos it's so different from the ones in their own country!? Yet when the 'sacred and sacrosanct site' gets to a certain age {ie: Anyone who knew the deceased is LONG gone} then it's ok to place a bench or even picnic right on top of their grave-- As if the departed even cared, irrespective of calendar dates!!Saturday, 29 August 2009
Benches beside ancient gravestones
I just had a thought. Stay with me as it doesn't happen often. I thought this picture was of too little interest or too dull to post when I had a sort of epiphany {sudden enlightenment, incontinence, psychotic episode, delusion}. How often do you see park benches in cemeteries directly beside 'recent' burial sites and headstones? By recent I mean from yesterday's internment going back say 100 years or so. Would you agree not many? Say you go to visit grandpa's grave 2 weeks after his burial and you find that, whilst there is no headstone in place yet, a bench has appeared since the funeral with two tourists enjoying ice cream whilst going over their digital photos of the cemetary 'cos it's so different from the ones in their own country!? Yet when the 'sacred and sacrosanct site' gets to a certain age {ie: Anyone who knew the deceased is LONG gone} then it's ok to place a bench or even picnic right on top of their grave-- As if the departed even cared, irrespective of calendar dates!!
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