anyone else like hanging out at cemeteries?

[snowman626]

there's a few cemetery parks where i live and i like to go there to walk around. not very many people there and it's usually peaceful. i have always liked cemeteries. when i was in high school i used to visit a cemetery on my way to school to walk around and look at the tombstones. theres a really calm energy in cemeteries that i like.

 

[Soul]

I enjoy cemetaries a lot, even though I have no intention of ever being put in one. For a while I lived near Graceland Cemetary in Chicago - that one's quite trippy and if you like cemetaries it's worth googling it.

 

[LastFlowers]

I like them but have not been to one for a long time.
There is something eerily peaceful about them.
But like Soul, I'm not sure I want to be put in one and rubbed up against all those other plots.
Not my body in a coffin anyways. Maybe some of my ashes.

 

[AtomicNewt]

Of course. Used to take the long way home from school to walk through the cemetery, felt calm there. Southampton has an amazing huge old gothic Victorian cemetery, can get lost for hours. Liked to hunt out particular graves at times, like the titanic ones or teenager that got struck by lightening there. There was one for a railway worker who died on the tracks and it had a big train on the top. We just don't do death as well now. Guess I was probably always a little odd.

 

[RM5998]

I've visited one cemetery in recent memory, and it was a very... interesting experience. Granted, it was an old one that had been converted into a tourist spot, but still, it was a soothing few hours, which is extremely unusual for me at most tourist spots.

The place was unnaturally peaceful, and even though I went there with friends, I was able to relax. One of the things that I noticed was the reduction in the size of the graves over time. I particularly remember that a child buried in the 1780s got a 4m3m2m tomb, and a family of 6 got a small shrine-like structure about that size in the 1850s.

 

[not_a_robot]

All my life. I had a side-job that required me to tour beautiful old cemeteries when I was 20, loved it.
I am currently carless and poor but when I had a car, driving around looking cemeteries was one of the main ways I spent my spare time. I tried not to be too disrespectful to the dead but I figured the forgotten ones were probably grateful for the company.
I gave up the car when I realized all I ever used it for was driving around looking for places to be alone. I can be alone at home.

 

[JohnUK]

I like being around crematorium more than cemeteries. Looking at the smoke when the burners are active and think lucky people who are no longer here. Painful I know but I wish sometimes I could break in to the building get to the burner, open the door, time the doors to close after let's say 10 seconds, get in and wait for the doors to close and let the program do its thing

 

[Sailfisher]

No. They creep me out. I don't want to be in one, but I don't want to be here.

 

[Kikoo Loool]

there's a few cemetery parks where i live and i like to go there to walk around. not very many people there and it's usually peaceful. i have always liked cemeteries. when i was in high school i used to visit a cemetery on my way to school to walk around and look at the tombstones. theres a really calm energy in cemeteries that i like.

This calls to me. I like to go in cemeteries, rest on a bench, read all those names and imagine their lives.

 

[marcusuk63]

Ive not been to one for years and last time i went in the one near me i saw a Frederick Krueger monument !

 

[inconsequential]

Yes. All the time. They're very peaceful, and the living rarely show up.

 

[ExitTheDay]

Ah the good ole days of sneaking off with friends to smoke weed at the cemetary... I think they're a pretty trippy place to hangout in, until you see the grave of a child, that shit hits you like a ton of bricks!

 

[sui3]

I went to a cemetery the last days and it was haunting, it was an old cemetery, where you can see the coffins in those small cemetery houses, did some of you also see something like that? Is that common? What was also interesting and strange was that here it seems common to open the doors and kind of chillout with the coffin. It reminded me a little of this easyness with death the people have when they live at a cemeteries. But ussualy I feel more calm at cemeteries. This was different... who can relate?

 

[Letmego. Please]

When i was at secondary school the stairwell overlooked the local cemetery, i used to spend hours just sitting there thinking you lucky buggers.
Even nowdays if i see a hearse i mutter you lucky bugger...

 

[Kringle's Curse]

I love being at a cemetery, like others said it's so peaceful. I'd love to kill myself at one.

 

[not_a_robot]

My best cemetery story. I never knew my great grandparents, but they both had very distinctive names that I never forgot when my mom told me them for a family-tree project in fourth grade.
My family life was awful (because of dad not mom), I had left home at 18 and never looked back at my original small town my parents were from, avoided that whole part of country.
Lost a job at 29 and my dad was trying to bribe me with cash to love him again, so I went back. Took a day driving around small towns all over the state just to get high and collect myself (my dad plays Mr. Nice Guy but he is in fact a brutal psychopath who used to kill our family dogs and nearly killed my mother many times). Was driving in the midst of nowhere, empty little road with nothing but bored cops every few miles who will ticket you for spitting.
And I suddenly needed to pee, so urgently , no businesses or restrooms around for miles. I start frantically looking for a good place to pull over and squat, there's nothing. Go around a curve, there's a tiny cemetery. Most stones not big enough to squat behind. Pulled in, drove to the back, looking for a suitable stone, but finally my bladder forced me to just stop behind the closest small one and piss.
Afterward very relieved, I figured I should at least read the stone. Walk around to the front. It was Great Grandma and Grandpa.
I called my mom. "I found your Grandparents' grave!"

 

[AhG]

I like hanging out at abandoned places tbh

 

[not_a_robot]

When i was at secondary school the stairwell overlooked the local cemetery, i used to spend hours just sitting there thinking you lucky buggers.
Even nowdays if i see a hearse i mutter you lucky bugger...

my first apartment was gorgeous and the balcony overlooked a tiny forgotten cemetery that couldn't be relocated for historical reasons, hidden in a bunch of urban sprawl. I had rented it sight-unseen before I moved cross country so I knew almost nothing about it. When I saw the cemetery, I was like:
I'm Home!

 

[Letmego. Please]

I used to watch for the smoke coming outta the chimney & wish it was me.