Mit Andrea entdeckte ich letzte Woche London. Wir machten uns auf den Weg zum Highgate Cemetery, wo Karl Marx beerdigt ist. Andrea arbeitet selbständig als Digital Marketing Consultant und Graphic Designer. Hier findet Ihr mehr über sie: dotsandletters.com und art-salat.com.
1. Imagine: You will die in this city. Where will you be buried …?
I am an air sign, in a way this is strange being an Aquarius also. I think I would not like to choose an earthy place to be buried. I am a visitor, a traveller in this world, not embedded in a local culture nor feeling very attached to a physical place.
This in mind I’d like my ashes to be dashed out over the sea. It could be any sea really, the Channel or somewhere far. My boys would have to choose if they just take a ferry to Europe or go on a longer Cruise and let me fly freely.
2. Do you know a cemetery in your city where you live right now? Tell me about it. Let’s go there.
I liked our walk across Highgate Cemetery East, such a peaceful place, full of ancient stories fading over time just as the lettering on the tomb stones fades and some even seemed to sink into the Earth. It felt a little like a place for Zombies with some of the resting places looking like they had been opened from inside or outside? You never know. I thought about what would my resting place look like if I were to choose a permanent address to be my ‚last resort‘. Definitely not grey, it would need to be as colourful as possible. In my imagination it would be in a field of lily’s of the valley.
3. Do you know something of the „burial culture“ of your city/country where you live?
I believe it is like in other western cultures that people tend to be lain to rest together with their loved ones where ever possible, so you see a lot of family graves, but also individual ones. I don’t know about cultural preferences for the burial, also with London being one of the culturally most mixed places in the world, it must be as diverse as the cultures that have settled here. There seems to be a similar habit of visiting the resting place of a loved one and looking after it, refreshing the flowers etc., especially on specific anniversaries.
We saw a Happy Birthday balloon and flowers on one of the resting places of a child. So sad and sweet at the same time. Likewise, we saw graves that had not been visited for a long time. As generations do not die as per defined schedule sometimes there is just no one left at some point. It is one of the reasons I don’t want to be buried the traditional way and rather be let out to fly or swim wherever I like. Weiterlesen
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