tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post8718132296415066160..comments2024-03-29T08:44:51.719+01:00Comments on Beyond the Lone Islands: All Saints' DayDawnTreaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533307672147117843noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-13254861362298735132021-11-08T18:24:35.306+01:002021-11-08T18:24:35.306+01:00Amy, I have no statistics but I'd say crematio...Amy, I have no statistics but I'd say cremation is the most common here as well now. Some still like the ashes buried in a special place marked with a stone or name plaque though, and there are alternatives for that as well. DawnTreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533307672147117843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-83899659283464355322021-11-07T19:54:15.790+01:002021-11-07T19:54:15.790+01:00It's nice that you have your ancestors near yo...It's nice that you have your ancestors near you, mine are scattered all around the country. It seems that burials are becoming less and less these days, still see them around but many are choosing cremations instead of taking up room on the land.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17076349937962262361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-66379873822359055342021-11-07T19:10:12.371+01:002021-11-07T19:10:12.371+01:00CG, cremation is increasingly common here too, but...CG, cremation is increasingly common here too, but we still have a variety of choices, ranging from coffin burials, to individual urn/ash burials (often re-using an old family grave), to burying/scattering ashes in a place with many name plaques on the same monument, to scattering the ashes in a Garden of Remembrance and just enter the names in a book, as you describe. My own parents had coffin burials because that was what dad wanted. (Their grave is in the same churchyard as many ancestors on his side of the family.)DawnTreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533307672147117843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-11610336749289516692021-11-07T18:35:22.435+01:002021-11-07T18:35:22.435+01:00Sandra, thinking of vacuuming as exercise is a &qu...Sandra, thinking of vacuuming as exercise is a "trick" I sometimes use to get it done... ;) DawnTreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533307672147117843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-1565221631958286882021-11-07T17:28:42.326+01:002021-11-07T17:28:42.326+01:00In recent times all my family, both immediate and ...In recent times all my family, both immediate and distant, have been cremated, so I have no graves to visit. Their ashes were scattered in a Rose Garden of Remembrance, at the Crematorium, and their names entered in a Book of Remembrance. In overcrowded Britain it's the most ecologically friendly thing to do, to save occupying ground that can be used by the living. Cremation is the acceptable way here in Spain, too. Coppa's girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459503600694841117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-4450873077383691762021-11-07T15:41:46.751+01:002021-11-07T15:41:46.751+01:00I needed a laugh, taking a walk with your vacuum m...I needed a laugh, taking a walk with your vacuum made me giggle. i know you are happy to find others had the same thoughts as you did about visiting the grave. it looks both sad and prettyMadSnapperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08163140037276496519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-78712548199639909492021-11-07T13:29:58.427+01:002021-11-07T13:29:58.427+01:00Thanks Barbara. Not much effort on my part involve...Thanks Barbara. Not much effort on my part involved though, as the formal responsibility for these two graves does not lie with me (my aunt, living elsewhere, pays a fee to have them cared for). But I pass by the older one often - living nearby, and frequently walking across that cemetery. DawnTreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533307672147117843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-13066162216672572102021-11-07T12:55:25.612+01:002021-11-07T12:55:25.612+01:00Meike, when I was in town earlier in the week ther...Meike, when I was in town earlier in the week there seemed to be quite a lot of parents + children about, I guess some made use of the school holiday to go shopping for winter clothes etc.DawnTreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533307672147117843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-5192715942448713682021-11-07T08:55:59.969+01:002021-11-07T08:55:59.969+01:00School children here have been on autumn break thi...School children here have been on autumn break this week, too. It showed in the reduced number of people on local trains, and vastly increased numbers on long-distance ones.<br />Your cemetery walk has reminded me that I have not been in that direction for my after-work walks in quite a while. We still have family graves on the cemeteries in both my town and the next one, but not many relatives living in our area, and none we are close to.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-76774779099880499192021-11-06T20:56:45.231+01:002021-11-06T20:56:45.231+01:00THose are both such great tributes to those who...THose are both such great tributes to those who've gone before, so I'm happy to see that effort on your part. I don't have any real family graves in this area at all. Maybe someday I can go to where they lived...many miles from here.Barbara Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-54118781741184391492021-11-06T19:41:17.818+01:002021-11-06T19:41:17.818+01:00Ginny, one or two cousins of my parents (whom I ne...Ginny, one or two cousins of my parents (whom I never knew very well and haven't seen in years). None in my own generation that I know of.DawnTreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533307672147117843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609118120551505936.post-33122387729091972682021-11-06T19:18:13.987+01:002021-11-06T19:18:13.987+01:00The grave is such a beautiful, sad, and lonely sig...The grave is such a beautiful, sad, and lonely sight. So you have family living in town?Ginny Hartzlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09329131153403895625noreply@blogger.com