Posted on 12/17/2011 3:10:35 PM PST by NYer
Video at above link.
Burial is just making sure archaeologists of the future will have something to find when they dig. I’ll go with cremation.
I and my wife just got back from placing sprays on the graves of my In-laws.
5 years back the cemetary drove their backhoe across the bronzed Plaques of the dead and broke the marble under them. On our next trip up (It is a two hour ride) we saw my wifes parents Bronze plaque and marble base were bent and broken.This was Christmas . We went back at Easter and it wasn’t fixed —this time,We did not leave until the cemetary had fixed it while we waited.
We were there today and the others that were bent and broken 5 years ago, were still bent and broken as their families had never been back to see that they were fixed.
Thats a damned shame, but like having a parent in the nursing home, if you don’t visit often, they do not get the same care as those who do.
I might just add that an endowment for perpetual care does not last forever.
Certainly they were supposed to,but they too are being subjected to the same economic forces that your private saving account is subject too.
That savings that you put away intending to live a good life off the interest of ,is being eaten up by an interest rate of .50 or less instead of the 7% you counted on to keep you alive.The same is happening to these endowments.
The money that would have been there with a good interest rate is being eaten up by the lower rate, higher costs for the fuel for the lawnmowers, and labor for the contractor cutting and keeping the place neat.
Don’t want no fancy funeral....just one like old King Tut.
The United Nations building is a thirty nine story sepulcher full of dead mans bones.
A religious cemetery had an ongoing problem with heavy equipment damaging stones and plaques and didn’t seem to care?
On the other hand, they had a stock of new stones and ready to engrave plaques and literally replaced both during a visit? (Occupy The Cemetery?)
I can’t visit the graves of my loved ones now because the neighborhood has turned into a ghetto. I suspect that has happened in most big cities.
I'm with you. The love of my life is in a BEAUTIFUL spot. I can't see the glass and aluminum highrise.
I'll be cremated and buried right next to him. I DID chose not to have my name pre-engraved. Lord, have mercy, I couldn't go there every Sunday and see my name--especially with the BLANK date next to my name. Some folks do it. :o(
However, it's a new world. And, in the future, I can see the use of holograms for the desired green pastures.
WHAT A SHAME!
I'm so sorry for you.
NYer
***Don’t want no fancy funeral....just one like old King Tut.***
Tan me hide when I’m dead, Fred.
Tan me hide when I’m dead.
So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde,
And That’s it hanging on the shed (In memorium!).
Tie me Kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down..
***Cemeteries should be outlawed as a complete total waste of good land! ***
Build a Soylent Green factory there! Put people, both dead and alive, back to work!
I’ve told my wife to put me in the dumpster headed for the landfill dump!
***I’ve told my wife to put me in the dumpster headed for the landfill dump!***
My sister-in-law gave some consideration to dumping the ashes of her husband down the toilet into the septic tank.
She didn’t.
Ha! I loved that song.
Sounds like a good plan if the dumpster rout fails!
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