May 2011
35 posts
victorianoir asked: Have you ever been to Highgate Cemetery?! I'm in a Victorian London history class (because I'm absolutely fascinated by those people and the contradictory, repressive, Gothic lifestyles they led and the strange society they created). I did a huge presentation on Highgate and it seems like the coolest cemetery on earth. I love that it was created in a park-like labyrinthine fashion in...
“There’s nothing certain in a man’s life except this: That he must lose it.”
– Aeschylus (via spooky-behavior)
sparksandlight asked: Thank you for following! I love your blog it is amazing! I am a frequent cemetery visitor and enjoy practicing photography in them. I recently dressed up in an prom dress and had a photo shoot in my favorite cemetery :) Thank you for such a lovely blog for a fellow morbid person!
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Cenotaphs, Headstones, & Grave Markers, Oh My!
Though the words for what marks a person’s final resting place or memorial spot are often used interchangeably, there is actually a definitive – and separate – meaning for the majority of them. Here are a few and the true meaning behind them.
You may call what marks a grave anything from a tombstone to a headstone or a grave marker. Though they often are used to denote the same thing, each...
purplewitchhazel-deactivated201 asked: Hi, that was nice of you to repost my little story. Have you been through something similar, or do you just find my words extremely awesome? lol
The Value-added Tombstone →
FTA: ”What’s the next best thing to placing flowers on your loved one’s grave marker? Teddy bears? Mylar balloons? Thanks to technology, those items are now passe. The latest way for you to pay your respects is via the QR code. The what??”
“He sleeps. Although so much he was denied,
He lived; and when his dear love...”
– Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
(via novellastsentences)
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
– Seneca (via spooky-behavior)
ellamorte asked: I just found your blog, I love it already! Your posts are great, very interesting, and your bookshelf page has introduced me to a few new titles, so thank you. ♥
“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This...”
– Henry Rollins (via bloodisthenewblackk)
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“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left...”
– Harriett Beecher Stowe (via mypoopface)
The blurred line: Death anxiety. A flick of the... →
purplewitchhazel:
I miss the days of blissful ignorance. Amongst the many years of nightmares after my grandfather’s passing, started my curiosity with death. Diving into details about ancient Egyptian embalming. Writing down the case study of Kurt Cobain’s death and making it into a little keepsake booklet. Being…
Muscles, Bones, and Nerves.: There are cemeteries... →
hell-tan:
There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness, darkness, darkness, like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves, as though we were drowning inside our hearts, as though we lived falling out of the skin into…
When I lived at the funeral home,
That’s pretty much always been my thoughts, too, including why I don’t believe the majority of cemeteries to be haunted.
funeralsauce:
people would always ask me if I was scared to live there. I said no, of course not, why would I be? and more than one person would then say, “well, aren’t you afraid of ghosts?”
like…why the fuck would a ghost even haunt a funeral home? It’s like a...
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Young Mother's Remains Stolen from Grave
It was a Tuesday, the 15th, a day like any other in the middle of June in the year 2010 when a phone call shattered a family’s life.
That call was to the Clark family and their world crumbled to learn that their beautiful daughter had taken her own life. Tori Lynn Clark – only 33 years of age and a young mother – had chosen to end her personal suffering that summer day in Graniteville, VT. ...
beakywitch asked: I'm so sorry to hear about your family tragedies, it sounds like you've got such a lot to cope with all in one go, two very difficult types of loss.
Thank you for your lovely comment about my sketch - I do draw but that one is a photo which had a charcoal filter used on it, lol, doesn't it look like a drawing!? I wish I had done it as one of mine though.
Thank you for your lovely comment about my sketch - I do draw but that one is a photo which had a charcoal filter used on it, lol, doesn't it look like a drawing!? I wish I had done it as one of mine though.
erinthesedays asked: your blog is fantastic. great pictures!
-erin
-erin
Life as I Know It: Locus Desperatus: Cemeteries →
locusdesperatus:
I love cemeteries way too much. It’s probably weird…and creepy. But I love them. Spent several hours in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester on Sunday…and it’s quite possibly one of my favorite places to be. All I can think about is going back to see what I missed. I like to imagine what kind of lives…
