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For someone who is morbidly (ha) afraid of death - and I mean truly, awake-at-4am-thinking-it-over afraid - I sure do like my cemeteries. In fact, the more afraid of death I grow, the more I love cemeteries. They have to be old, though, and the pain far removed from them. I don't like new tombs at all, but old ones are so peaceful and beautiful.
I'm going to start a series in my LJ and post some photos of my favourite graveyards. Thus far, I have Pere-Lachaise and Montmarte (Paris), La Tour de Carol (French/Spanish border), that awesome old one in Boston, Lafayette, St. Louis No.1 and the one I can't remember (New Orleans), San Michele (Venice), various Greek and English cemeteries and, um, a deeply saddening one in Sarajevo. Exciting and weird times!






Jim Morrison, we salute you. And steal from your grave.

This one's too sad and shiny and poor Edith. ;_;



Heloise and Abelard. This is a terrible photo but let me show you why...

Seriously. Renovations, you're necessary but confound me. >:|


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Modigliani and my icon hunny, his lover Jeanne Hebuterne <3

The monuments in the WWII/Holocaust memorial are really hard to even look at.



And now Oscar Wilde.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I can't really judge as yes, I have kissed that grave myself before...

And perhaps Oscar would find it all rather splendid...

...But I judge this clown so hard. What kind of person writes in textspeak on a memorial? (Probaby the same asshat who wrote 'Bon Jovi' on the front).




I'm going to start a series in my LJ and post some photos of my favourite graveyards. Thus far, I have Pere-Lachaise and Montmarte (Paris), La Tour de Carol (French/Spanish border), that awesome old one in Boston, Lafayette, St. Louis No.1 and the one I can't remember (New Orleans), San Michele (Venice), various Greek and English cemeteries and, um, a deeply saddening one in Sarajevo. Exciting and weird times!
Jim Morrison, we salute you. And steal from your grave.
This one's too sad and shiny and poor Edith. ;_;
Heloise and Abelard. This is a terrible photo but let me show you why...
Seriously. Renovations, you're necessary but confound me. >:|
Herp derp
Modigliani and my icon hunny, his lover Jeanne Hebuterne <3
The monuments in the WWII/Holocaust memorial are really hard to even look at.
And now Oscar Wilde.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I can't really judge as yes, I have kissed that grave myself before...
And perhaps Oscar would find it all rather splendid...
...But I judge this clown so hard. What kind of person writes in textspeak on a memorial? (Probaby the same asshat who wrote 'Bon Jovi' on the front).
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What is it about kisssing Oscar Wilde's tomb? A friend and I went to see it, but neither of us knew why people kiss the grave. Is it lucky or something ? :)
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I have one from Lafayette No. 1 of the tomb of Marius (Francoise). Oh yes.
Wonderful idea...and get clicking in some of those marvelous English cemeteries, girl!
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I think it's terrible that Oscar Wilde's grave has been graffitied like that. I don't see anything wrong with kissing his grave but THAT? :(
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Here's a photo from Swan Point that I found online:
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I'm not good with remembering names of the ones i've, er, looked up on an Urban Exploration website or two but the ones i remember most was one in Paris (i think) where they let people go down into the catacombs and another which isn't a cemetery but a freaking creepy ass 'museum' sort of thing where, for decades, the corpses of the deceased were sort of mummified to preserve them and tied to walls and placed on display. Think it started with this old monk fella and then everybody else wanted to be put on display after it happened. There's kids and everything, it looks like such a sad place. And scary.
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Oddly enough I've been going the same way. I might also be reversing my ideas about cremation vs. burial...
I think what I love most in your photos is when there are statues that really express emotion, like that woman holding the wreath. The Oscar Wilde thing intrigues me too, though I can't entirely put my thoughts about it together coherently. I'm not cool with people writing in permanent pen (and yeah, that text speak... no words!), but the urge to interact physically with the monument is interesting and hints at what I think is one of the reasons we deal with death so badly in our culture: there's rarely anything physical we can do to feel connected to the dead person. Even when people don't believe in life after death, something about kissing the monument/leaving notes and flowers reminds me of sympathetic magic: "my action is meaningful and worthwhile". It almost seems like they need a separate thing that people can kiss/write on, but I wonder if that would deflect their ardour from the actual monument...
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