On 11/30/2017 3:12 PM, ardiente casa del amor wrote:
> 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.
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>>
>> 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
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>
> Gravestones are great for kids to learn from, an urn less so.
>
> It's whatever works of course.

I guess you can use it for family history, but not so easy for every
family. The nearest family graves are 250 miles, the furthest, 3000
miles. It will be worse in the future as my closest family is in five
other states around the country. Ashes are portable. They can bring
back memories too.