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part 365 days in a year

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I love cemeteries! Especially older stones or unique stones, angels, statues. Do you have any favorite gravestones or memorial stones to share? If you could pick a gravestone for yourself, what would it look like?

I'm posting a few I've collected recently after a dummy!

that second one, wow

I want a crazy elaborate stone that makes people take pictures of it

not to be weird, but my grandfather died recently and though he doesn't have a headstone yet, this is his grave (it's since had a wooden cross put on it with his name etc). he's at the top of a whole new 'field' in the cemetary and so far one new person has already been buried next to him but the area around is totally empty, then at the bottom section there are all the other recent graves (including, sadly, some infants and a stillborn with hello kitty on the headstone and 'born asleep' :( ), while at the actual entrance are all these old ass graves. half of them are sunk into the ground. it's strange how much more uniform the new ones are (black mostly with gold letters), while the old ones are variable and have these huge statues and tombs mixed in, and like the old reverend's family tomb and such. i don't have any pictures of that cemetary, buuuuut

opposite the cemetary is the old church itself and there are a ton of graves in the churchyard, and those are the REALLY old ones. we've been up there a lot and i went wandering around that church and almost broke my damn neck on all the sunken stones lmao

i totally ate a blackberry off the bushes back there

also i'm not sure about myself but for my grandfather we've been thinking about it and we like the light grey, marble-like stones with the flat 'bed' in front for flowers and whatever, plus we were thinking of a memorial bench. also since we have to approach his grave from behind, i think we should put something on the back like an engraving

Wow, these are gorgeous photos, thank you for sharing. It's interesting to note the difference between recent and older gravestones. I've seen some very beautiful but sad headstones for children as well...

yeah- i think part of it is modern design sense and the fact that they're machine engraved now, and maybe part is like...you know, they're 'off the rack' because it's cheaper perhaps, lol. there are still a few that stand out, i guess those cost more, but there's nothing like the huge monuments among the old stones, i wonder if they even do those any more. burial isn't cheap to begin with so it makes me wonder about the families back then that could spring for giant crosses and columns and stuff!

and yeah, there aren't many there fortunately, but it's quite shocking to see...it's also very strange and interesting to see all these records of different people, including a lot of names we recognise, from all different times and circumstances...some people have their occupation and hometown recorded, so i think i'd like that for my grandfather, just as a point of interest for other people to look at in time

so hauntingly beautiful!

if I had one maybe like that poem about the corrupt priest that wants a really fancy tomb instead of a gravestone

haha no really maybe a random crystal ball that gets stolen all the time

And people who steal the crystal ball have really bad luck and end up returning it to the grave with an apology to end their curse?

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