Are you aware that some cemeteries bury "single" people in rows with each other, separate from the double headed tombstones of the married? Now, I first realized this when I was in Santa Cruz, California and doing a tombstone inventory of an old cemetery there. They also had a separate (but close in) area for Chinese and war veterans, and of course this is a lesson in history and the development of a town with ethnic immigration of a few minorities.
I wonder if this has anything to do with beliefs about the resurrection of the dead in the end times/judgement.
Tombstones are often tributes to the best in people but we all know of couples who were horribly married but in death rest aside each other till eternity - or the worms! Walking along in the cemetery you can imagine that they are in eternal life happily with each other, and maybe this notion satisfies their children, but you know better. Besides what ever happened to that marriage vow "Till death?"
I think cemeteries are set up for the married people. But you can pop a spinster or confirmed bachelor down in with the parents' graves too.
REPORT HERE ANY CEMETERIES YOU KNOW THAT WILL NOT PUT SINGLE PEOPLE IN NEAR THE MARRIEDS!
HAVE YOU CHOSEN TO BE CREAMATED SO AS TO NOT DEAL WITH THE FAMILY CEMETERY?
FROM JANUARY 2008
