November 3, 2015 by
in Cemeteries are living museums
Post Mortem Repose
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Wanda Hope Carter
Is this from when they used to pose people after they died and then make their pics? What a creepy thing to do.
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Mark Bailey
It was a custom in the Victorian days. My grandmother was reposed in her casket in her house with mom and her siblings. Old World custom.
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Rocky
If it's creepy, I like it. As for cemeteries being living museums, I used to walk 4 miles a day in my local cemetery and sometimes sit by their pond and read a book.

I also had many a picnic at my mom's grave site with my kids, nephews and my sister.
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Mark Bailey
I can relate. Someday, I want to visit Gettysburg.
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Rocky
Mark, I am twenty minutes from Gettysburg. I really, sincerely, would put you or anyone in this forum up! Just get here and I'll take care of you!!
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Marge Pauls
You will enjoy it, Mark--I hope you do get to go. There's a stillness there that is sad, yet somehow oddly comforting.
  • November 4, 2015
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Rocky
It's cathedral like.
  • November 8, 2015
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Safari Woman
One house I lived in as a kid was a block from a large cemetary. I would ride my bike in it for hours, visit graves, read tombstones. It's sort of comforting in a very odd way!
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Rocky
Saf, I literally grew up with a cemetery just outside my bedroom window. We lived in a row house with a small yard and a one lane alley. Then there was the cemetery hedge and the tombstones. I never thought a thing of it because of course, it was quite normal!
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Marge Pauls
Bet ya didn't have noisy neighbors, lol!
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✞★❤Lati Hall❤★✞
Nah-uh I don't like graveyards or dead people! They scare me.
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Marge Pauls
Been watching those zombie movies again?
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Rocky
I LOVE them!! However, I have to believe that enshrining one's body in a 40 Sq. Ft. plot is atrocious! And who's going to take of these cemeteries 100/500 years from now? No doubt they will be robbed for their earthy contents.

My mom's wedding rings were buried with her (my screwy idea).

I always t...
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