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Picnicing on gravestones.
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nameslessone | Report | 15 May 2015 08:52 |
The food fair in Christchurch, Dorset, was so popular that people overflowed into the churchyard and were photographed sitting on tombs to eat their picnics. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 15 May 2015 09:06 |
No - not unless they dropped and left litter there - which is disrespectful anywhere in my opinion. |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 May 2015 09:09 |
I feel the same as you namelessone. I always try not to step even on unmarked plots if I know where they are. I find myself apologising to any soul who's plot I happen to catch. |
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nameslessone | Report | 15 May 2015 09:20 |
If it was a family grave then I think it lovely to include the departed. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 15 May 2015 09:28 |
Many Abbeys, Cathedrals, inner city churches etc have removed the tombstones of 'commoners' - if you're lucky, you'll find them leaning against the outer walls, or, in the case of my fx4 granddad, almost worn away as it is being used as part of a pathway - to make a nice grassy area. This means that, even if you sit down in the grounds of one of these buildings, you're likely to be sitting on someone's grave, so I find it hypocritical. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 15 May 2015 09:58 |
When I found my paternal great grans death details from 1907 I contacted the local council for her burial details . They made arrangements for me to meet the cemetery supervisor and he took me to the area wherevshe was buried in a public grave . It was a large grassed area in the middle of other gravestones and I followed him as he walked down the rows and counted out where the actual grave would be . I found my self tiptoeing very warily over the grass and realising a couple of times I was on other graves I stepped smartly to one side saying sorry to the grass areas , seemed very disrectfull to be stomping over the resting place of someone's else's family |
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Sharron | Report | 15 May 2015 10:49 |
I would rather somebody was having a picnic on the spot where I am buried than that they were waging war. |
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Dermot | Report | 15 May 2015 13:40 |
The death of self-respect, perhaps. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 15 May 2015 18:03 |
I would be most upset if someone picnicked on my daughter's grave, which is marked by a tiny hesdstone. Can't do anything about the squirrels who eat the cones in the yew tree above and throw down the 'cores' tho Around her grave are others, unmarked, where babies were put in common graves ( as Zoe was until I found out and I bought the plot) and I try not to step on them. I think if parents encourage their childen to picnic in such places they are teaching them disrespect sadly. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 15 May 2015 18:06 |
Liz, recent burial places are different. As I said above, the lovely green areas around Cathedrals, Abbeys etc are there purely because the gravestones have been removed. There are still remains under the grass. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 15 May 2015 21:14 |
In many countries of the world festivals are held IN the cemeteries with food and drink provided for the dead people. There is laughter, dancing, and yes people sitting on or near the graves and tombs. New babies are shown and introduced to the dead ancestors. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 15 May 2015 22:04 |
Maggie, my daughter has been buried since 1974 and there are older graves around the area of the cemetery she is in as well as several unnamed and unmarked graves. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 15 May 2015 22:04 |
Maggie, my daughter has been buried since 1974 and there are older graves around the area of the cemetery she is in as well as several unnamed and unmarked graves. |