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do you visit graveyard or any family cemeteries? how do you feel about it?
it could be a very peaceful and quiet place with all the trees and flowers and talk to a person you know in solitude but freaky as well
i always visit my grandpa's graveyard during qingming festival when the graveyard turns into some sort of bonfire but that's for me, and i feel great to go back to a person you've known for a long time and remembering them
not really, was probably about 4 years ago when my gran died I was at a grave
nah
i just remember the people who have died
i don't need to visit a rotting corpse for that
i have 3 people close to me who are buried in the same cemetery
but i never visit them?? my grandad visited my grans grave everyday or multiple times a day for the 5years n a few months after her death until he died,
for me it's just looking at a gravestone. i go up with my mum on anniversaries to put up flowers but idc if im not there to do it
I visit my nans but haven't been in like two years now.
I quite like graveyards, last time I visited one was when I went the Cathedral in Liverpool in the summer and just had a look about the gardens/graveyard there.
Only have a few times in my life
They are pretty and it can pass the time seeing old gravestones from hundreds of years before but there isn't anyone in my life yet who's died that I'd want to talk to. All the people that have died so far are those distant relatives you rarely see, dreading the day it happens to someone close to me but I can talk to them anywhere, not sure if I'd go to their grave or not to do it
No I've never visited a graveyard
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.
I visit my mother's grave every year
I visit my granny's, not as often as I used to now. Last time was Christmas Day.
No, I haven't really thought of doing so before. Although now that you mention it, it would in fact be a nice, quiet place to visit and think about life.
I live quite near a cemetery, and seeing the tombstones from centuries before I was born as I've walked by has always been something I've taken note of (the years that seem so distant) but I've never actually stopped to think about that. It would probably be good to sit and think about our mortality every once in a while, to help us appreciate the gift that is life :-)
No. I have no real reason to for the time being..
the last time i went to a graveyard was with my grandma and great grandma to visit a boy who got stabbed who they didnt even know...
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thats fairly ironic lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Drewar
I Visit my aunties grave every new years day, As It would have been her birthday
& My mums step dads, But he hasn't got a stone so we can't find the plot, So we put a flower on each empty plot (Probs sounds weird)
I go with my mum to my all of my grandparent's graves (in same cemetery luckily) every new years eve, but i also like to go walking around a graveyard if i'm near one sometimes tbh, especially church ones cause i really love the feel of them
i can see a graveyard from my bedroom window
i love graveyards they r so peaceful and idk the ones ive been to r so wild and natural. like u can hear all the birds chirping and the trees r rly big and old its nice just walk around
I don't really go unless there's a special thing on but even then I don't always attend. My Granny is in the local graveyard but my grandads grave is in Manchester. I've been to my grans loads but only been my grandads once.
once in a blue moon. whenever were going up north and my family and i just so happen to pas a graveyard a family member is in, we'll go visit
I've been to one to see my mum's parents' graves, and one to see someone else in her family's.
The second graveyard I used to walk past every single day and would always look inside it but haven't gone in since we visited.
Actually I went in once when we were going as a group to some person's house and they tricked us to go in there since we didn't know where his house was and were following him. And we kinda just stood in the middle thinking 'where did he go??!'
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.
You say that like you enjoy seeing dead people :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
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..
Not alone and hardly ever. I just find them really emotional to look at and creepy. ;s
The last time I was at a grave yard was either to visit my friends grave - She died when we were 13 on the back of a mopphead.
Or my Grandads.
i've never been to one