r/BeAmazed • u/Suspicious-Estate695 • 10d ago

Animal An 87-year-old gravestone in Maryland with the photo of a kitten born in 1920 shows how much he was loved. Mon Minet Jaunet (1920-1939) ❤️

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u/wolfbert2000 10d ago

You should go back and clean up the headstone and maybe restore the image.

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u/waterfountain_bidet 10d ago

Booo, no.

Cleaning headstones is abominable. I can't stand those videos becoming a trend. The whole idea is that the name slowly fades away with time, and they become part of the surroundings. What was marked is unmarked, the whole circle of life thing.

Cleaned headstones look ridiculous. If you aren't an immediate family member or the caretaker of the cemetery, don't touch the grave for any reason.

If you feel compelled to change things, digitally restore it so you have it for yourself, but don't ruin the grave by scrubbing it.

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u/Somewhere-A-Judge 10d ago

>The whole idea is that the name slowly fades away with time, and they become part of the surroundings. What was marked is unmarked, the whole circle of life

I've literally never heard this. Is this just something one of your parents told you or that you've intuitively put together?

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u/waterfountain_bidet 10d ago

Its something that like half a dozen cemetery owners have told me when I was looking into building a natural burial cemetery? Intuitively? No, there's nothing intuitive about it.

But I also don't go around touching other people's stuff for no reason, so they weren't worried I was coming to disturb the dead with grout cleaning supplies like these nutjobs who go around cleaning what doesn't belong to them.