A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and it's short and lotsa New World people have lost the battle.
"It's a place for burying dead folk," I say.
Her eyes widen. "A place for doing what?"
"Don't people die in space?" I ask.
"Yeah," she says. "But we burn them. We don't put them in holes." She crosses her arms around herself, mouth and forehead frowning, peering around at the graves. "How can this be sanitary?
Tags: death dead burial dying graveyard cemetary cremation sematary
[Dust]
Agatha Morley
all her life
grumbled at dust
like a good wife
...
Six feet under
the earth she lies
with dust at her feet
and dust in her eyes.
When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?
Sergei LukyanenkoTags: humor death burial elderly black-humor
Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kid grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.
Gillian FlynnWho chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.
Susan HubbardTags: burial cemetery monuments tombstones
Not everyone who died had left a "memory" and not everyone who had left a memory had left a "blessed" one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged "...of a blessed memory
Israelmore AyivorTags: passion vision death dead memory die burial food-for-thought legacy impact mission r-i-p blessed name title linger rip passed-on died memorial bless rest-in-peace dies israelmore-ayivor tag a-blessed-memory blessed-memory linger-on pass-away passed-away tagged
O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;
Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth
With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.
She hath no questions, she hath no replies.
Tags: poetry christianity death poem suicide earth burial funeral rebirth the-virgin-suicides
Ah, this delicious night air,' she said, luxuriously sniffing in the coolness. 'Night air and gardening are the great tonics. There is nothing so stimulating as bare contact with rich mother earth. You are never so fresh as when you have been grubbing in the soil - black hands, black nails, and boots covered with mud.' She gave her great jovial laugh.
'I'm a glutton for air and earth,' she said. 'Positively I look forward to death, for then I shall be buried and have the kind earth all round me. No leaden caskets for me - I have given explicit directions. But what shall I do about air? Well, I suppose one can't have everything.'
("Mrs. Amworth")
Tags: death night burial vampire garden-gardening night-air
At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims of the cemetary soil; waiting to become eternal people in fellowship for God. I know there is another fellowship in heaven!
Israelmore AyivorTags: god heaven sin die burial grave eternal-life jesus-christ repentance fellowship graveyard funeral christ cemetary tomb everlasting-life repent rip rest-in-peace ressurection death-died i-shall-see-go resurrect till-we-meet-again
...our loves ones truly are ever-present. We may bury their bodies or scatter their ashes, but their spirits are boundless and do not accompany them to the grave. The terms 'letting go' and 'closure' are just empty words. They mean nothing to someone who has suffered through the death of a loved one. Instead of insisting on figuratively burying our dead, why not keep them close to us? Love doesn't die when we do.
April SlaughterTags: loss death grief burial dying closure
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