An article about how Britain seems to be overrun with a wave of extraordinarily tacky gravesites, including this one:
And the one featuring Bart Simpson is by far the most dignified of the bunch.
It’s one thing to remember the dead. It’s another to lavish vast sums and large plots of land on them. Hermetically sealed silk-lined bronze sarcophagi, for example, when a cardboard box would make a hell of a lot more sense. LEGAL NOTICE: When I die, I demand that not more than $100 be spent on my future “accomodations.” Hell, go out in the woods somewhere with a backhoe, dig a hole and dump me in it unceremoniously. Really, I seriously doubt at that point that I’ll mind.
One of the more goofy and disturbing “memorials” shows that even in this area, people are throwing lots of money towards China to get cheap crap.
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Should have been Homer Simpson holding a sign that said “D-OH!’.
> Should have been Homer Simpson …
Better yet:
I might bag on someone for an ostentatious gravestone, but not for an outwardly tacky one that might make more sense if you had the backstory. In any case I’m all for being left to the birds.
Jim
Or an Eric Cartman, “Screw you guys, I’m goin’ home.”
Hell Scott,
I ‘lldrink more than $100 when you die !
It’ll be a wake not a celebration, There are people I will celebrate their death
😉
-G.
> outwardly tacky one that might make more sense if you had the backstory.
In most western cultures, cemetaries are supposed to be generally quite, somber places. Some of these gravesites indicate something very different. Which would be fine, if everyone who visits the cemetary agrees… but it seems like it’s being done as an effort to stand out more than honest grieving. Sort of an “I loved my loved one more than you loved your loved one” sort of thing.
Imagine if someone Jersey Shore’d a high school graduation ceremony. Bleah.
> I ‘lldrink more than $100 when you die !
There are times when some people drink more than $100 worth of booze at a time. These times are called “Tuesday.”
I’m told there’s a grave monument of an Atlas, somewhere in California. As I recall the tale, the dead chap was a commercial artist, and as far as anyone knows he had no connection with the Atlas. But now he has it as his grave marker.
Wow, more proof that the Brits have lost that “stiff upper lift”. And all in all, this isn’t a good thing.
but it seems like it’s being done as an effort to stand out more than honest grieving. Sort of an “I loved my loved one more than you loved your loved one” sort of thing.
That is tacky, I agree with you.
Jim
Don’t tar all us Brits with the one brush. There is a place near me where you can be buried just as you described, in a wicker basket overlooking beautiful countryside. Your family get GPS co-ordinates so they can find you, maybe picnic at the spot.
If you think that modern britains wallow in grief we are nothing compared with the Victorians, they really went to town with monuments bigger than a small house, and a dedicated transport system for coffins and mourners.
I live next door to a classic Victorian cemetery. Excess? No, not to them, at that time. “What they built is amazing.”
> classic Victorian cemetery
As far as ostentatious nonsensical tributes to the dead, it’s ahrd to top things like the Pyramids and the Taj mahal. But the differe ce here is that those structures are both permanent and the result of real artistry and craftsmanship… built for the ages. A burial plot that someone has dumped a lot of plastic crap on? Not so much. And I’d bet that the “permanent” memorials shown here are likely not so permanent. A stature made in China? Yeah, let’s see how long *that* lasts (especailly once the chavs get hold of it).