So many people are being cremated now. I think it's about affordability and mobility. So many people have moved from what was once the family home town that visiting cemeteries also seems to be passe. No more going to clean the grave. A cemetery might notice that no one visits and decide they can recycle your ancestor, dig up or move or destroy the grave. And sell it again. Thought it was permanent. Find out it's temporary. Or they might want to hit you or your family up for more money. It happens.
I currently live near a cemetery where it would seem most people are not forgotten. You see whole Christmas trees on some graves. Flowers in the little holders in the crypt.
Is this all for the LIVING?
Very occasionally I walk around a cemetery just looking at the carved tomb stones. I know obits lie. This week I looked at a couple that belong to people who were horrible in life but the obit mentions all the loving they gave and got.
Cremation does away with the bed board - his and her - married persons tombstone. That gives the impression they are resting together in eternity when in real life they had terrible fights and probably should never been married before. And despite belief systems that marriage ends upon death and they have separate heavenly rests.
I haven't made up my own mind about the disposal of my earthly body. I'm still attached to it. I know I don't want to be dropped into the sea.
C 2020 Ancestry Worship - Genealogy
