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BetteTheRed said:
I confess to finding that bemusing. I can see having a "few" watering cans. This looks like one per family.
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Exactly. In Germany, graves are landscaped like gardens. People put all kinds of flowers on them, sculptures, sometimes a small bench. So, they keep their own watering cans, because they have to water frequently. I will take some pics to show. Of course, some graves are just overgrown with weeds, because nobody is there to care. But, the majority does take care of graves and a graveyard looks like a park with old trees and little plots of flower beds. Of course, nobody can drive onto a graveyard.
 
That would look interesting Mrs. Anteater. I assume families often plant favourite flowers on those plots too.

How do the coffins get to the burial plot if cars aren't allowed? Are they carried or moved on a wheeled gadget?
 
KayTheCurler said:
That would look interesting Mrs. Anteater. I assume families often plant favourite flowers on those plots too.

How do the coffins get to the burial plot if cars aren't allowed? Are they carried or moved on a wheeled gadget?
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Good question. There is a paved path through the middle of the cemetary, then smaller ones going off both ways. Inhave to look again, but I dare say, the larger graves for coffins are along the wider path, most people are cremated, so the others are maybe 3x3 ft and fits three or four. I haven’t been to a funeral in Germany since my teens, so I don’t remember.
 
Strange how little we actually know about the funeral traditions of a few years ago and the traditions of today if we haven't attended a funeral recently. I have noticed a difference between the UK and here.

In the UK the deceased was embalmed (and maybe frozen) and placed in the coffin which was at the front of the church/chapel. Cremation happened later (which made me wonder about the opportunity to recycle coffins.)

Here the deceased is cremated and the ashes are at the front of the church/chapel. Frequently there is no involvement of a cemetery.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Exactly. In Germany, graves are landscaped like gardens. People put all kinds of flowers on them, sculptures, sometimes a small bench. So, they keep their own watering cans, because they have to water frequently. I will take some pics to show. Of course, some graves are just overgrown with weeds, because nobody is there to care. But, the majority does take care of graves and a graveyard looks like a park with old trees and little plots of flower beds. Of course, nobody can drive onto a graveyard.
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How civilized :3
 
Inannawhimsey said:
How civilized :3
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I am thinking its part of the grieving process for the older generation. To have a place to go to, sit and talk to the deceased. I remember hearing that there are cultures where people come and eat at the grave. Would be an interesting topic for a new thread.
 
Order from Chaos
20180630_101207.jpg Photons on Silicon, 2018

My kind of weather in my Motherland
65 F
Moderate full overcast
Nice warm sprinkles

When I came across this I immediately smiled and thot of a bell curve...one of my fav hands on illustrations of the bell curve was at Seattle science centre where with a push of a button a hopper would drop balls onto a set of pins*...to be collected by hoppers at the bottom. It illustrated how a random process can result in order. Reality is also byootiful.

* very similar to this
 
Arooooooooooooo!
20180626_031007.jpg Photons on Silicon, 2018
This beauty was kind enough to pose patiently for me
Vibrating with excitement I'm sure
 
Hoppers ... is that ambiguous ... and dependent on the mood of the pit your in ... are hoppers like 'V's' in single dimension ... and then the balls alter to oh Ba'aLs of iconic nature ... symbolizing something out of line of those rigid in mind ?

Thus prodigal wonders and the prodigal question when moving on ... heis become unstuck ... like Oreo's epa rate ... and words break uo too into chits of hidden info ...

Perhaps stuff you didn't wish to know a' saulted ... sault .. then Jae says I in sult his wisdom ... perhaps as salty ... natural laws of reaction ... this reaction goes on until striking the softness of resilient mind ... they cannot be defined due to their formless state ... black bauld as a dark pearl? Mauvis ... that's the franc version ... of things placed out of sight ...
 
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