Comments on: Destination Cemeteries

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:07:56 +0000

On a recent trip to Paris, I joined those two million visiting my buddy Oscar. I even have a picture kissing his grave! (Hopefully I didn’t contract any fatal diseases.)

By: Coeli

Coeli — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:12:22 +0000

Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio is huge and really gorgeous. I don’t think it’s well-known outside the city, but it should be.

By: frumpiefox

frumpiefox — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:03:07 +0000

On a related note, a project that one of my professors assigned was to research a dead dictator, including writing the instructions as to how a tourist could find the dictator’s grave. It was going toward a book that someone on campus was writing; I’m not sure if the project was ever completed. I thought that was kind of a weird project, in many ways.

By: Florida

Florida — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:52:00 +0000

Key West Cemetery is quite a site. Considering most of Key West is just a foot or two above sea level, most of the graves are above ground. Plus the population of the cemetery is nearly double that of the city itself.

And how can you possibly talk about destination cemeteries without mentioning Arlington National Cemetery?

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:21:55 +0000

How could you leave out Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah GA? Beautiful setting and famous folk like Conrad Aiken, Johnny Mercer and Josiah Tattnall III, the man who coined the phrase, “Blood is thicker than water”

By: GirlNoir

GirlNoir — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:57:14 +0000

Sleepy Hollow in Concord is kick asss Particularly the Writer’s Ridge or whatever they call it. Happy memories of sneaking in there with friends to visit Thoreau and the Alcotts in the wee hours of the morning/night

By: JOHN BROWN

JOHN BROWN — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:24:41 +0000

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT CEMETARIES WILL LOOK LIKE IN A MILLION YEARS. SO MANY PEOPLE WILL BE DECEASED THEN YOU HAVE TO WONDER HOW LARGE (LENGTH AND WIDTH AND PROBABLY HEIGHT)THEY WILL BE. AND FINDING A LOVED ONE COULD BE LIKE LOOKING FOR A NEEDLE IN A HAY STACK.

By: Lew

Lew — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:09:15 +0000

San Francisco’s cemetaries have all been moved just south to Colma, guess the dead can’t afford the rents here either. The Jewish cemetary is interesting for the tombs of Emperor Norton, Levi Strauss and interestingly Wyatt Earp (his wife was Jewish).

By: Ann Wood

Ann Wood — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:46:38 +0000

I have to agree that Vienna’s Zentral Friedhof is amazing, particularly the composers’ area, where many of the greats are buried in close proximity: Beethoven, Brahms, many of the Strausses, etc. When we were there last summer, however, the caretaker couldn’t understand that we were not there in search of Mozart’s grave (last year being the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth). Mozart’s grave has been relocated to another cemetery.

By: Gordon Rogers

Gordon Rogers — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:02:59 +0000

No mention of destination cemeteries would be complete without the Protestant Cemetery in Macau (about an hour’s hydroplane boat ride from Hong Kong). This cemetery is quite old and beautiful, and every tombstone tells a story. There are many graves of young sailors from a couple of hundred years ago who “died in a fall from aloft”, with quaint misspellings on many tombstones illustrating that shiphands were not always the best educated people, whatever their other skills were. Other graves are of dignitaries of the former colony, so there is quite a mix. The grounds are very well kept and the surroundings are, needless to say, exotic.