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re: Visiting the graveside of a lost loved one
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:21 pm to Count Chocula
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:21 pm to Count Chocula
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Whats his connection with Golden Flake?
His coaches show was always sponsored by Golden Flake and Coca-Cola, so if you drive by his grave today there's usually a glass bottle of coke and bag of golden flake chips. Lots of pennies too, but Idk what that is all about,
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Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:23 pm to Scruffy
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Scruffy thinks they are wastes of prime real estate.
My family has a large plot south of lsu health shreveport.
Best place to live in that area is in the cemetery.
Straightup hood. Used to be prime when papa bought it 50 years ago.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:25 pm to Broke
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I visit my father regularly. Because I miss him.
Likewise - and my mother. They passed 4 months apart. Don't know how many close relatives OP has lost, but it may change your outlook.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:28 pm to Tiger Ryno
I put flowers on my parents graves around Memorial Day, and this year, will be doing the same for the first time for my brother.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:30 pm to Tiger Ryno
They better not put me in a graveyard to "remember me".
I'd rather roast and ghost.
I'd rather roast and ghost.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:45 pm to Tiger Ryno
I’ve never understood them. Once I’m dead, someone could throw me in a dumpster for all I care.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:47 pm to Tiger Ryno
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Just not My scene.
well, this is a strange statement about cemeteries...
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:48 pm to Tiger Ryno
I go with my entire family to share the love we had for that person but also , and way more importantly, to reaffirm the love we have for one another. Life is for the living.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:52 pm to Tiger Ryno
What I don’t understand are death sites. Like memorials set up where someone died and crosses etc. placed there. In the immediate aftermath, I get it but years later??
Graveyards are just a place for reflection. If not a graveyard it would be the place you spread the ashes? What if your loved one wanted their ashes in the pacific or gulf? Now every time you went to a coast you’d be sad?
Graveyards are just a place for reflection. If not a graveyard it would be the place you spread the ashes? What if your loved one wanted their ashes in the pacific or gulf? Now every time you went to a coast you’d be sad?
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:56 pm to Red Stick Tigress
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Shelby was a he. He was a past employee of LSU SID and at the time of death, asst. mgr. at the box office of the River Center.
His mom was employed by LSU AD in housekeeping.
He was well known around LSU. The football game after his murder had a tribute to him on the Jumbotron.
Okay, but you have no personal connection to him, but still go place flowers from time to time?
Not knocking it, just can't for the life of me understand it.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:56 pm to Tiger Ryno
I don’t visit the graveyard. I don’t think about it, nor do I have an opinion on it. But I haven’t lost many people. I lost 2 great grandparents and a grandmother, but the it hurts a whole lot less when it was old age that claimed them. I still have both my parents and my siblings. My outlook will probably change after my parents pass away.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:57 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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What I don’t understand are death sites.
Go to Mexico. They're like every 3 feet apart on the roads.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:01 pm to Count Chocula
My mom just passed and she wished to be cremated, we worked with the funeral home (sister and myself) My brother was out of town. My dad wasn’t up to going to funeral home to work out the details- from what I recall my sister and myself signed the paperwork (the funeral home was the witness).
It might be different because she has the power of attorney
It might be different because she has the power of attorney
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:02 pm to Tiger Ryno
My dad graduated from Arkansas, and I graduated from LSU. I visit his grave for the annual football match up, and I listen to the game on the radio. We always watched the games together, and I enjoy continuing that tradition.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:03 pm to Gorilla Ball
I had my mom's POA, and yet all living children needed to sign off on cremation at the funeral home. Learned that I really don't like funeral homes. Creepy
This post was edited on 5/8/18 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:04 pm to Lsupimp
I visit the cemetery every few months. My dad, and four grandparents are buried in Greenwood in NOLA, so I visit the tomb of each side of the family.
I recently did a family tree on my dad's side of the family and found out where each grandparent is buried. I visited St Martin de Tours cemetery in St. Martinville where a few sets of grandparents are buried. My great grandfather who first arrived in Louisiana in 1765 is buried in the cemetery at the church in St. James. I went there to see if his tomb/headstone was still there. The lady in charge of the cemetery told me that with him dying in 1803 he was in the oldest part of the cemetery which is now under the Mississippi River levee.
I still haven't visited my great grandparents tomb in Patterson, but it's something on my to do list.
I recently did a family tree on my dad's side of the family and found out where each grandparent is buried. I visited St Martin de Tours cemetery in St. Martinville where a few sets of grandparents are buried. My great grandfather who first arrived in Louisiana in 1765 is buried in the cemetery at the church in St. James. I went there to see if his tomb/headstone was still there. The lady in charge of the cemetery told me that with him dying in 1803 he was in the oldest part of the cemetery which is now under the Mississippi River levee.
I still haven't visited my great grandparents tomb in Patterson, but it's something on my to do list.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:04 pm to Tiger Ryno
Today marks 1 year that I lost my mother. I have only been to her grave one time. I always tell myself I should go more but I just can't bring myself to go and see her name engraved in the marble
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:05 pm to doublecutter
Respect.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:07 pm to Tiger Ryno
My wife likes to go to her mom's grave on Mother's Day.
I've visited my father's grave less than a half dozen times since he died 16 years ago, and I couldn't even tell you where it is in the graveyard. Visiting graves more than once has never been a big thing in my mind.
I've visited my father's grave less than a half dozen times since he died 16 years ago, and I couldn't even tell you where it is in the graveyard. Visiting graves more than once has never been a big thing in my mind.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:07 pm to Tiger Ryno
A lot of people are into ancestor worship without copping to it.
Burn me. Toss cremated ashes into water.
Burn me. Toss cremated ashes into water.
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