Maybe I’m just a sick, twisted bitch, but with all the news about a cemetery in Chicago being dug up and plots being re-sold, I really have to wonder: how many people really go visit the graves?  Before anyone starts on me, let me say this: I agree, what those people did was completely heinous, and hope they really get justice served on them big time.  I think it was horrifying that they would desecrate those bodies all in the name of profit.  They “claim” that they only used graves no one ever visited.  How do they know?  And what difference does it make if the graves are visited or not?  That is a serious disrespect for the dead.

My questions is: how many people really DO visit graves?  My grandparents and great aunts and uncles are in a mausoleum just south of Jerkwater, Illinois.  The last time we were there was when grandma died.   They’re only there because Grandpa didn’t want dirt thrown on his face when he died.  Don’t laugh.  He was survived by a woman who made sure he had a TOP OF THE LINE SUPER SUPPORTIVE INNERSPRING mattress because he had a bad back.  *Thanks to the fucking shyster mortician for that one.*  Even at 9 I knew enough not to point out that his back is going to be pretty stiff from now on.  My point is, no one goes there to “visit” them.   All that expensive fancy marble and granite and for what? 

My perverted thought process (and point of the whole post) goes along the line of wondering what they look like now.  Are they all stiff and dried?  Or are they juicy since they aren’t in the ground, even though in the ground they would still be in caskets inside of concrete vaults?   I wouldn’t go there to “visit” them.  “They” aren’t there.  Just their bodies, so I don’t need to “visit” them there.  I would just end up sitting there (after a 3 hour trip) just wondering what their (and the other dead bodies in the place) look like.  I’m not prejudiced either-I wonder what the ones in the ground look like too.  I blame C.S.I. for this.  I saw too many episodes where the bodies had to be exhumed for what ever crime of the week was being solved. 

Just another arguement for cremation.