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Thread #63963   Message #1042681
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
27-Oct-03 - 01:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Visiting Cemeteries
Subject: BS: Visiting Cemeteries
Thought I'd throw this out since Halloween is almost here...

I just realized that I have never visited a cemetery for any reason other than to attend a funeral. I've never visited a friend or relative's gravesite. I've never visited the gravesite of a famous person (though I was planning on visiting Jimi Hendrix' the one time I was in Seattle, but missed the exit and kept going). I've never walked through old cemeteries looking at old markers. And I never walked through a cemetery on Halloween night as a kid, though I grew up just down the road from a large one.

I'm not superstitious. I don't have anything against cemeteries. It just doesn't ever occur to me that visiting one is a normal way to spend a half-hour or so. Obviously, lots of people do visit them regularly 'cause those flowers don't just pop up out of nowhere.

Anybody else care to expound on their own ghoulish nature (or lack thereof)?

Bruce