Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community Cemetery

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

Sometimes the burial site becomes a point of connection that the living 
want to access, even if only emotionally.

What if someone you loved was buried in a place you could never visit 
or felt was now a strange place because someone else bought the house? 
Family burial plots in the backyard or on top of the hill assume 
continuity.

Perhaps this would work best if you had an area on the land that was 
designated as a cemetery so children and parents could always visit and 
that was accessible in some privacy. I've known parents of children who 
visited their graves regularly for decades.

My mother has had her grave site picked for many years, next to her 
mother and father, and a few years ago put up her own headstone. She 
visits often but has moved several times during that period.

The isolation of cemeteries, or their placement next to or in the 
church, also makes them private.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org