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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 10:15 AM Original message |
Why do people visit cemeteries? |
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ChoralScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm not sure, but I know that it's not for anyone but me... |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
2. For me, it's a way of reinforcing the idea that they aren't forgotten |
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MiddleFingerMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 11:23 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Exactly... |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. A wonderful intersection of compassion, history and symbolism |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. By the way, this shouldn't be about you but about your mother |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. To remember that they really were here, to connect their memory to my world. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. It's a relaxing place to smoke a joint. |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 05:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Especially, |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
8. I visit the graves of several of my great and great great grandparents |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
9. Once they pile the dirt on, I never go back. |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
10. I live over 2000 miles from where my family members are buried |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
11. It's personal ... |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
13. I'm with you, I don't visit graves. |
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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
14. I think that to some it represents continuity. It is something that is nearly |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 05:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. There is a concept that existence is based on being in someones thoughts. |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 11:49 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. humans... and elephants, it seems |
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theNotoriousP.I.G. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
15. I visit my husband's grave |
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TheCentepedeShoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 07:49 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. From us |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
17. To honor the dead. |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
18. Because she asked you. And it's not always about you. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
19. The people there are good listeners. |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
21. I talk to my ancestors...or to dirt....whatever |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
22. To make sure I am not there |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-10 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
23. The best reason I know is for genealogical research |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-26-10 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
25. Because folks are always dying to get in! |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-26-10 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
26. it sounds like she wanted you included on this family outing |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-26-10 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
27. the cemetery I visit has every generation since the Civil War buried there |
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