something to think about

[dragonlady7]

Ann took this picture in Mt. Hope Cemetery, just along the road from where I live.
i just think it's pretty.




i know nothing about these people but this is the back of a double stone.
cemeteries are oddly comforting places.

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[eggplantia5.livejournal.com]

my parents bought a cemetary plot and tombstone for themselves years ago. it's quite morbid, i think. well, i'm grateful i won't have to do that stuff, but still.

every so often, they go to the cemtary and make sure that their tombstone is clean and stuff.

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[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

uh... kinda cool, i guess... yeah, nice that you don't have to worry about it, but don't they, um, have a while?
when i was little my family used to go visit cemeteries a lot. My mother's town historian, so part of that is going around and finding old cemeteries, confirming for geneaologists that people really are buried there, etc., helping families locate ancestors that way, and making sure the cemeteries don't get plowed over etc. because nobody knows they're there.
We also used to have family reunions in the cemetery. My great-uncle was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery, and his wife and her daughter would drive in from Syracuse, and we'd meet them there, plant new flowers on the grave, trim the bushes already there, eat a picnic, etc. ... so my sisters and i would run around and play on the gravestones and it was generally a happy and peaceful place for us. So i like graveyards. Sometimes. On sunny days. They make me laugh and cry and they're usually pretty. So I'll probably buy my own gravestone before I die, maybe design it; my parents probably will too.
In Mexico on the Day of the Dead everyone goes to the graveyard and has a picnic and a big party and they leave food for their dead loved ones and offer prayers and things to them; it's believed in many cultures (christianity included) that on that day of the year, the world of the dead is closer to the world of the living. And in some cultures, they're just not scared of death. It's a part of life that they celebrate. I sort of feel that way, but don't want anyone I know to die......

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[eggplantia5.livejournal.com]

my parents have a pretty tombstone. it's like, rose colored marble, and they have their names in chinese carved into it. they also have this design of two doves kissing. a long time ago, someone made this like, drawing of two doves kissing inside a heart, and it's been up on their bedroom door for as long as i can remember, and it's on their tombstone now. which is nice... but also depresses me horribly.

i'm not afraid of death- i just don't want to be there when it happens. i think woody allen said that.

i don't know. i'm not afraid of dying, i';m afriad that other people will die.

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[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

so true. a wise man, who said that.
that's sweet though, that they put what they wanted on it.
it's always depressing to consider, though.
the hardest part about dying is that it means you can't see people anymore. i've always thought it's harder on the ones who survive.
so yeah, i'm afraid of other people dying much more than i'm afraid of dying.