Cemeteries: A peacefull or dreadfull place ??

I like cemeteries. At night would be cool, but I mostly enjoy reading the inscriptions. I like dates...

 

I have so enjoyed reading everyones posts and, "ThoughtsfromThinAir", so glad to read your entry,( this is the first time I noticed your posts), it was a very interesting and provocative examination of life and death.


I spent nearly 13 years living in tents alongside a rural, park-like cemetery, and grew so accustomed to feeling at peace with my environment, and considering it my big beautiful backyard, that I still have nothing but very fond memories of my experiences with cemeteries.

I too want to be cremated, and I think I like the idea of being scattered over the ocean waters somewhere, and just having anyone I leave behind imagining me being "No-where, but Everywhere". It seems like it would be easier for the left behind then, to forget their "beloved departed" as a body, and start thinking of them as a spiritual entity. Feels like a full circle to me.

 

I understand this. That's probably exactly how I feel. "As part of the Whole", that kind of thing. Maybe this is why I would have prefered the old style of burial - when we literally were just BURIED - because then we could become part of the earth (nowhere but everywhere).

My partner read about "sky burials" (some Native American traditions apparently do this) where the person's body is left on a high tall cliff after death and the birds come by and take bits of the body to feed on - it energizes them and it leaves a "part" of the person's essence to fly with the bird.

He would love to do that - but I believe one must be of a Native Nation in order to apply for that burial. I'm not sure - it's been a long time since we talked about that. He has chosen cremation like I have.

I'm new here - about a week I think - and I've read some of your other stuff and imagine you've had an interesting life. Living in tents, never marrying your partner (I haven't married mine either), your thread on "what would you teach?" - maybe you and I have a bit in common (I've never lived in a tent other than for camping but I DID live in a castle's dungeon and in a fruit packing factory).

So far I am happy @ this website! It feels homey!

 

I haven't been to a cemetary in some time, but when I was a wee bit younger I enjoyed walking through them and reading the headstones. I remember my mom, grandma, and I had taken a trip to and went through a cemetary. There was a family of 5 children all dead and all under the ages of 8. The spooky thing was they all died within 2 years of each other and a few years later both the parents were dead. I remember this because we got a flat tire on are way out of there.

I have never thought of a cemetary as a scary place, but rather a calming place. Some are real beautiful and it's a nice place for a walk.

 

my family would often visit different cemetaries when i was growing up, so i've always had a fondness for them - so calm and serene, so beautiful - you can be alone but still know that other people are around.......it's a great spot for picnics!