486 Comments for Crypt of Barons
Cami wrote:
this place looks like zombie nation waiting to happen very nice pics though
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Guitorman wrote:
Nowadays the funeral parlor has three choices in caskets : (expensive) pine crate,very expensive casket, and 'reach for the stars'
People feel obligated(at an inconvenient time) to give thier loved one the best,its' used for a few hours,then put in the ground.
People feel obligated(at an inconvenient time) to give thier loved one the best,its' used for a few hours,then put in the ground.
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Guitorman wrote:
P.S. (as large and interesting Greenmount is ,and besides being my fav, it has but a single small mausoleum at the front entrance drive)
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Guitorman wrote:
Magnificant doors. Fairly big place.
start the time machine
start the time machine
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Guitorman wrote:
"It is appointed to man (women & children) to die once."
--Bible
--Bible
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Guitorman wrote:
That thing has fallen and it can't get up.
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Guitorman wrote:
Like an old Sea Chest.
Things have changed over the years regarding funerals and burials.
Some of you may still remember when they would flick the switch and the mechanism would automatically lower the casket into the grave by means of belts. They don't do that anymore.I say it is to give the grave workers more time to do thier job,especially if there is a snag.But an old timer at a burial last summer told me they don't do it anymore because of a couple of cases where the severly bereaved jumped into the grave after the casket.
Things have changed over the years regarding funerals and burials.
Some of you may still remember when they would flick the switch and the mechanism would automatically lower the casket into the grave by means of belts. They don't do that anymore.I say it is to give the grave workers more time to do thier job,especially if there is a snag.But an old timer at a burial last summer told me they don't do it anymore because of a couple of cases where the severly bereaved jumped into the grave after the casket.
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Guitorman wrote:
ummm,yellowy...
Let us not forget the syndrome of ages past wherein people APPEARED to be dead, but were not. Some WERE buried alive,but precuations were taken,such as holding a Wake (delay burial incase person revives)or running a string down into the casket with a bell at the other end above ground,with an attendant camping-out standing by (graveyard shift)
In Greenmount (Phila.),there is a spot I dubbed "The Hillside of Death" because of the large number of interments there in the summer of 1998,even with concrete bunkers and enbalming,you could still trace the stench.Could be why people used to get bombed at funerals in the old days.
And I agree: nice poem.
Let us not forget the syndrome of ages past wherein people APPEARED to be dead, but were not. Some WERE buried alive,but precuations were taken,such as holding a Wake (delay burial incase person revives)or running a string down into the casket with a bell at the other end above ground,with an attendant camping-out standing by (graveyard shift)
In Greenmount (Phila.),there is a spot I dubbed "The Hillside of Death" because of the large number of interments there in the summer of 1998,even with concrete bunkers and enbalming,you could still trace the stench.Could be why people used to get bombed at funerals in the old days.
And I agree: nice poem.
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Guitorman wrote:
That be old cloth.
My oldest brother (well,actually,both brothers)and I both like cemeteries.IT's like the time we were standing in Greenmount (my favorite;I want to be intered there;better start preparing) and I made the obvious remark "Why do people go to these great lengths?" His reply : " Well, no one WANTS to be forgotten"
Just a thought.......................................
My oldest brother (well,actually,both brothers)and I both like cemeteries.IT's like the time we were standing in Greenmount (my favorite;I want to be intered there;better start preparing) and I made the obvious remark "Why do people go to these great lengths?" His reply : " Well, no one WANTS to be forgotten"
Just a thought.......................................
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Guitorman wrote:
I wonder what these people considered regarding thier remains here.Did they consider it would always be regal and off-limits?Or if enough time past,such as it has,and it fell into obscurity and disrepair,such as it has,would a small smile come to the corner of thier mouth regarding people such as us ,regarding what they left behind,so, as all is not lost.
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I just turned the xbox off because i had been playing Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls for over four hours and needed the rest...
i love this.