Posted on 06/22/2023 5:03:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
There are no bodies there.
You can visit the USS Arizona memorial any time you want ...
After this (late) entrepreneur’s attitude towards and reputation for safety, I suspect there will be no rush to start up tours again. Maybe in another hundred years?
As far as I could tell, the Titanic visitors were not being disrespectful of the dead. Lots of burial sites are visited by tourists, such as Arlington National Cemetery, the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids, the catacombs of Paris, etc. After a point, the descendants need to get over it. How often did these complaining descendants of the Titanic victims ever visit the site, even on the surface, to pay their respects?
“It was a passenger ship.”
Good point, but to be more precise - and OCEAN LINER, specifically built to efficiently and quickly move large numbers of people long distances. Nothing like the super top-heavy party boats that dominate today.
There are tours that include graveyards all the time. What about Arlington?
There are tours that include graveyards all the time. What about Arlington?
“ You can visit the USS Arizona memorial any time you want ... ”
You can’t go down in your own sub and screw around for fun.
Hope you have more respect for the living than you do the dead
People tour graveyards.
Hate to break this to them, but people tour graveyards all the time
I understand that the Titanic was a singularly impactful disaster because the world's richest titans died on the ship, but people still visit the graves of Mozart, Beethoven, and anyone who was interned in Westminster Abbey, to name a few famous "hallowed" sites.
I visited Pompeii, where countless ordinary people died instantly, and Ireland where burial mounds are tourist attractions. King Tut was carted across the globe many times.
I'm sorry for the loss to the families of these people, but they are no more or less special than anyone else who died over the millennia, and people will continue to trek to visit (or not) the burial sites of historical interest to them when the historical impact of the disaster resonates with them, despite the anguish of the families who lost loved ones.
-PJ
It's a valid question, academically.
Completely agree.
Would we do this to the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor?
You should see how many people flock to the Gettysburg battlefields.
That was kind of my thought. These "relatives" never met their deceased relatives and its likely neither did their parents. Its a discussion worth having, but at this point no one has a privileged seat at the table.
That ship is their tomb no different than the Arizona
One video already shows huge chunks falling off after they stupidly ran into it on their Disneyland rinky dink ripoff ride. It’s completely unprotected and the families of the victims are correct about only true scientific exam should take place. Tourists are causing damage to get their kicks and that can’t be justified.
Thanks! I think I still have a few good years left in me!
Sorry for your loss though.
I haven’t any luck finding all who are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetary. I’d like to visit the grave of my mother someday, but not sure if she’s there for certain. My Grandparents were supposedly buried there in 1950/1956.
“ These “relatives” never met their deceased relatives and its likely neither did their parents”
That’s a pretty dumb thing to say when one of the family members quoted had 2 uncles that died on the ship. Hard to believe his father never met either one of his own brothers. In fact that’s just goofy
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