New Tombstone

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Comment by Carla Cryptic on March 14, 2011 at 3:47pm

I know what you mean.  The only kind of cemeteries I don't find interesting aesthetically are the modern, no tombstones allowed, kind.  They are, sadly, taking over the landscape around here where I live.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 14, 2011 at 11:29am

My favourite cemeteries:

i) St Marx Cemetery, Vienna (small but beautiful)

ii) Zentralfriedhof, Vienna (massive cemetery where the great and the good of Austria are buried, including -- and rhese are just some of the composers -- Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and several Strausses: also has a large Jewish Cemetery)

iii) Cemetery, Nice (impressive vaults, and marvellous views of the city and bay of Nice) [Also, if you're ever visiting cemeries in the Nice area, go to the Monastere de Cimiez, which is just outside he city, where Matisse is buried]

iv) West End Cemetery, Darlington, England (where my father is buried).

A very good book -- with lots of photos of famous peoples' gaves and tombstones -- is by Mark C Taylor and Dietrich Christian Lammerts, 'Grave Matters' (Reaktion Books, London; 2002)

Regards, Val

Comment by Carla Cryptic on March 14, 2011 at 12:37am

Thanks for the tip Bifidus!  I loved that cemetery when I was there, though we didn't look for any famous people buried there.  We spent several hours just walking around aimlessly and taking photographs and making videos.  I'll have to check out that documentary you mention.

Comment by Bifidus Jones on March 14, 2011 at 12:35am

For those who haven't seen Forever, the French documentary about the personality of Père-Lachaise cemetery (where Proust and Jim Morrison among others were buried), I recommend it highly!

Comment by Carla Cryptic on March 13, 2011 at 9:53pm

BTW, Val, it's very cute that this group has a lifespan!  ;)

Comment by Carla Cryptic on March 13, 2011 at 9:51pm

Makes sense to me. :D

Comment by Carla Cryptic on March 13, 2011 at 9:22pm

Exactly, Val. ;)  

 

Prosthet: I hope to have some up as a group one day - at the moment, I don't.  I love the idea of your doing virtual tours.  I've visited cemeteries all over the world, everywhere I've lived or visited... I love them, too.

 

Erni: My family must be unusual!  After 6 mos, people are back to being able to function fairly normally but the really deep pain lasts much longer than that.  My brother's wife died in October of 2009 and my brother is just starting to recover now.  Thankfully, he had a lot of family and friends around.  It may depend, also, on how the person died (suddenly or not, all kinds of other factors).  Not sure.

 

 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 13, 2011 at 7:55pm

Dear Carla? Whos said lovemaking was dirty? Not me! All I meant to say was that our Tombstone (and Cemetery) have high standards that should be maintained at all time and that should be reflected in our comments relating to, inter alia, bottle deposits and collections, and sleeping rough. Censoriously yours, Val

Comment by Carla Cryptic on March 13, 2011 at 7:30pm

LOL Erni - that's a nice bonus.  :D  Val - Lovemaking doesn't have to be dirty! ;)

 

Prosthet - very nice work.  I also have extensive graveyard photos.  Nice to see them in a group, the ones you've put up.  

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 12, 2011 at 11:32am

Keep it clean, you ghouls out there!

Or else.....

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