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Gravestones - Memories in stone |
| Date Added: May 31, 2011 07:11:13 PM |
| Author: pds20 |
| Category: Arts & Culture: Humanities |
| We believe that the purchase of a cemetery monument, statue, headstone, vase or urn to honor a departed loved one is one of life's most important decisions and that your customers should have unlimited choices to select or fashion an appropriate, unique gravestone. Graves and any related memorials are a focus for mourning and remembrance. The names of relatives are often added to a gravestone over the years, so that one marker may chronicle the passing of an entire family spread over decades. Since gravestones and a plot in a cemetery or churchyard cost money, they are also a symbol of wealth or prominence in a community. Some gravestones were even commissioned and erected to their own memory by people who were still living, as a testament to their wealth and status. In a Christian context, the very wealthy often erected elaborate memorials within churches rather than having simply external gravestones. Crematoria frequently offer similar alternatives to families who do not have a grave to mark, but who want a focus for their mourning and for remembrance. Carved or cast commemorative plaques inside the crematorium for example may serve this purpose. |
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