The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12691   Message #102583
Posted By: OSh
05-Aug-99 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: Gravestone Symbology-FYI
Subject: RE: Gravestone Symbology-FYI
Catspaw,

Not an issue, especially as in life I am an extremely sarcastic person myself (I live by the personally philosophy that if one says something "stupid" or inaine, it is not only my God given right, but moral duty to jump all over them. Same goes if I do the same - but never to be hurtfull or meanspirited).

And not to say that I spend great deals of time in cemeteries, but sometimes the sense of peace there is amazing. When in college, I had a creative writing class and had to write short stories and poetry, sometimes I would just walk through a cemetery and "soak" up the history. So many lives and loves in history waiting there. I would just let my imagination run wild and write if an intresting name was found or one of the monuments affected me somehow.

Maybe I'm just a "morbid" individual, but I do not find graveyards depressing.

BTW, the original reason I replied I forgot to mention in my other posts, but I always heard the skull and crossbones was placed on "untimely" deaths headstones (as if there are really any timely deaths)

And the painkillers were for a minor surgery - hopfully all taken care of! Thansk for the concern.

Over and out.

John OSh