A Cemetery in Colchester in Essex is putting it's foot down, and asking that mourners behave in a more 'dignified' manner, and remove an abundance of toys, trinkets, and adornments they have placed in the cemetery to mark their loved ones graves.
Do you think this is reasonable, or is it a local council being bossy and insensitive to the wishes of mourners?
Bossy and insensitive. Aesthetic snobbery. Sorry, I'm in no two minds about this!
ReplyDeleteIf you observe people in a cemetery they normally have eyes only for their plot. If these dingly-wingly graves are a distraction they are only a minor and brief distraction.
Why would anybody wish to place articles, whether tawdry & cheap or expensive & impressive on the grave of a loved one.Surely the grave and or memorial themselves would be an adequate reminder of the departed person to those who knew them. After all grave adornments would mean nothing to people not connected to the deceased.It doesn't seem quite right that a place of rememberance and meditation for many should be tarnished by the actions of a few
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