On 11/30/2017 2:12 PM, Cheri wrote:
> "ardiente casa del amor" > wrote in message
> news
>> On 11/30/2017 1:09 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>> "ardiente casa del amor" > wrote in message
>>> news >>>> On 11/30/2017 12:45 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>> Funerals are really for the living.
>>>>
>>>> Mmm hmm!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nitt...metherain.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I cannot buy you happiness, I cannot by you years;
>>>> I cannot buy you happiness, in place of all the tears.
>>>> But I can buy for you a gravestone, to lay behind your head.
>>>> Gravestones cheer the living, dear, they're no use to the dead.
>>>
>>>
>>> Never had a gravestone of a loved one that "cheered" me, but having a
>>> tiny urn with some of their ashes comforts me. Everyone has their own
>>> way of dealing.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>>
>> Gravestones are great for kids to learn from, an urn less so.
>>
>> It's whatever works of course.
>
>
> Why would a gravestone be any different than an urn?

A natural setting in the grass and trees puts little ones at ease.

They see all the company around and get what mortality means in numbers.


> The information is
> the same on the urn as it would be on the gravestone and I'm not
> interested in having looky-loos tromping over my loved ones at any rate.
>
> Cheri

It's more than that.

A cemetery has sculptures, mausoleums, all manner of elaborate or
succinct epitaphs, things kids can stop and ponder over.

One of my favorite places to visit when I was a sprout.

Heh, no jokes about early morbidity...

;-)