Cemetery
We took a walk in a green and quiet place today.
Give them an
... as they say.
This one had so much going on, it felt a bit of a mess. Designed by committee. Worse, a family committee.
We were amazed at the number of masonic markers. Lots of familiar names, which may or may not be related to the still living with the same ones, or the various buildings around the University.
And, well, I would never trivialize anyone's grief. But they seem to have done it themselves with this kitsch hollywood treatment. Which makes it seem even more sad. I think real art might have been more of a comfort, if anything could be.
The deer live here, wary of us, but content to let us wander.
Let me decompose as cheaply and cleanly as possible. Let me mulch a garden for deer.
Give them an
... as they say.
This one had so much going on, it felt a bit of a mess. Designed by committee. Worse, a family committee.
We were amazed at the number of masonic markers. Lots of familiar names, which may or may not be related to the still living with the same ones, or the various buildings around the University.
And, well, I would never trivialize anyone's grief. But they seem to have done it themselves with this kitsch hollywood treatment. Which makes it seem even more sad. I think real art might have been more of a comfort, if anything could be.
The deer live here, wary of us, but content to let us wander.
Let me decompose as cheaply and cleanly as possible. Let me mulch a garden for deer.
Posted by Zhoen on Saturday, September 24, 2011
7 comments:
I plan to provide compost for the crematorium.
Not yet, though.
My plan is to have whatever parts can be harvested done so, then burn the rest.
My remains, if there are any, will be interred in a hole in a Quaker cemetery, marked by a plain millstone...which my ex-husbands will likely say is entirely appropriate.
But, as Isabelle has said, not just yet.
I'm theoretically fine with cremation, but it does take a lot of fuel. Supposedly, the army is supposed to bury me, and that works just fine.
Resomation - that's the way to go.
http://www.ecogeek.org/weird-stuff/1529
Phil,
I've heard of that, sounds like it will be a better solution... excuse the pun.
designed by committee using clip art, no less. and that heart? oh, that heart breaks mine a little, so awful it is.
my grandmother, a lifelong communist atheist, had a gravestone made for my grandfather with the words "into your hands, lord" and to this day i am stopped in my tracks by the hypocrisy of it.
i want no formaldehyde, no gravestone, no bullshit. i'd go for cremation, but you're right about the fuel... will have to ponder this.
The variety of images here is fascinating in how we or others choose to memorialize a memory on earth. The headstone with the large photo also strikes me as sad; years of weather & the elements will peck away at the image on there and work against the youthful memory of the intent.
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