Do you visit graveyards?

I wouldn't say I 'visit' graveyards :P

I only visit the graveyard when I'm visiting my aunt. Other than that, I have no purpose to be in one.

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Originally Posted by Kardan

Yes, but not my families.

I've had a cousin and my grandmother die, and I've never visited their graves. Everyone else in my family does - I guess it's just my personal choice. I don't feel the need to visit a grave to mourn them.

Last year I went on holiday with my fiancée and her parents, and essentially it's a 3 week tour around various states of America (Last year we visited Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma), and basically we visit all the capitals, visit places of interest and essentially go grave hunting. The number of famous people's graves we saw I can't exactly remember, but it was easily over 100.

Notable highlights were Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly I guess, and it was also quite surreal being in the middle of nowhere next to a grave of one of the people that died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Looking to do the same this year with Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.

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You say that like you enjoy seeing dead people :P

Other famous additions for me include; Al Capone, Abraham Lincoln, the Wright Brothers, Benjamin Franklin and so many more. You really can't beat searching for graves amongst many hundred in boiling heat...! I must admit I was impressed when it came to Elvis though.

Anyways, back on topic, I've had many relatives die, but the only grave I remember going to (and one I still visit twice a year) is my grandad who is buried in a lovely graveyard surrounded by fields in the countryside, it's really beautiful :)

I do not, I may do when I'm older - though the last time I was anywhere near a church the light above me exploded and started a fire inside.

I have only visited a few times.

I can't remember the last time I went to a graveyard, I find them kinda sad and creepy

I've been to one like last year for a unveiling of a big memorial for all the people that died when German bombers dropped bombs on a town in World War 2 just outside Glasgow called Clydebank.

I would go to one probably once a year if like a close family member died or something.

i don't go very often maybe like once/twice a year or something if that

Only when I need to, not a great place to be.

When I went to France, I visited a war graveyard though

Most of my relatives were cremated and had a little box memorial on a wall so it's not really a grave.. but I visited them a bit when I was younger. In art one year, this weird lady had us walk to the graveyard in our town and we had to do rubbings with some powder stuff on these graves.. We ended up with patterns to use on our work but I was hesitant to do it because it felt wrong. :/ So I just walked around and took photos of broken graves..