[RS]

""I bring him presents, a balloon, a cake," Tara Reese said last week as she stood over Clarence's headstone. "Everybody sits down and eats some of the cake here."


Sounds to me like these people need some serious help -
Each year they take their four kids to sit around a cemetary with balloons ?
Surely that can't be too good for the kids mental health either.

[Roughneck]

Sounds to me like these people need some serious help -
Each year they take their four kids to sit around a cemetary with balloons ?
Surely that can't be too good for the kids mental health either.

I agree.

I also agree they should sue the sh*t out of whoever was responsible. Was her doctor Pro-Choice? Was one of the nurses pro-choice? Dis someone at that hospital "make a decsision" of some kind. . .?

[dandelion]

It's a common custom in Mexico for families to congregate at the cemetery for a picnic. Because of our shared Tex-Mex heritage, the cemetery picnic is also not uncommon in many parts of Texas, both Tejano and otherwise. In the East-Texas cemetary where my father is buried, there are many graves of little children, and they are decorated with toys, candles, and items of devotion. The families frequently come to see them.

I don't think that it is a sign of mental illness to gather at a graveside and mourn as a family...

[muawiyah]

Well, let's see, my grandmother had 1 son and 9 daughters. One of the daughters died when she was 8 years old.

On Decoration Day, every year, Grandma and the aunts went out to the graveyard and visited the young girl who died before her time.

Never thought about it much, but they always had lunch. Seemed pretty normal at the time. Frankly, I am really surprised there are people who don't do that!