Cemetery and Graveyards

[Heroine of the Dragon]

Have you been to a cemetery or graveyard for a tour? Or to visit someone who was famous?

Do you love to roam through cemeteries when you're on holiday? If so, there's a word for what you've got: "taphophilia", a love of graves and the rituals of death.

Taphophiles, also known as "gravers", are the people who pore over epitaphs, gravestones and the history of the dead — more often than not, the famous dead.

Romania's Merry Cemetery is known for its hand-carved gravestones, inscribed with funny stories about the departed.

-https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-06/ ... ys/8673454

Or do you go for personal reasons? When was the last time you visited a cemetery or graveyard?

[Booyakasha]

I believe the last time was a year or so after my grandma died. She and Grandpa were interred side-by-side; my mom and I went to visit their gravesite on their wedding anniversary.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I've only been to one twice. Once was as a kid after my father died, and then sort of a second time at night around a year later but only outside the gate. So that's about 20 years now.

They're certainly unlikable places existing out of mere necessity, and I won't be going again until someone else I know dies here in town, or it's finally my turn.

I actually like graveyards in fiction though, stuff like Nightmare Before Christmas and such use them to good effect. Horror games definitely benefit from them too, there's a real spooky one in Resident Evil: Code Veronica and MediEvil's scared me when I was a kid.

[Heroine of the Dragon]

Coming from a family who visits the cemetery for anniversaries/birthdays/Christmas, etc, I go often. I am fascinated by some of the very old headstones, and last year, I visited other people's family members during lockdown when they couldn't and sent them pics!!

[CaptHayfever]

I've been to relatives' graves, of course. But my 5th grade teacher also once took us to a cemetery near the school to do etchings of gravestones. That was kinda cool. And I played in a graveyard once at a friend's birthday party.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[steeze]

Arlington is a pretty nice cemetery. Went to the tomb of unknown soldier and JFK.