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I went there about a year ago. This is a gravestone in the churchyard. Just saying... https://goo.gl/photos/C9JnEHddouNcKuEb8 https://goo.gl/photos/C9JnEHddouNc

I went there about a year ago. This is a gravestone in the churchyard. Just saying... https://goo.gl/photos/C9JnEHddouNcKuEb8 https://goo.gl/photos/C9JnEHddouNcKuEb8

buro9 10y ago
Just yesterday I saw that phrase on a church next to where I live. It was the most prominent phrase in the stonework around the top of the building, and it is a strange phrase so I looked it up. Psalm 89:48 The gist being that "all men must die, even God's own son". For it is a necessary step on the path to enter heaven, and implies the "you can't take it with you" thing about wealth and property. It also implies mercy, for whatever pain you suffer in life, the pain will end one day (such mercy!). Death, the great leveller, making all the same status. But yeah... amusing in light of the paper and zombies.
sbardle 10y ago
Sure, but I'd still want a bling tombstone (angels, cherubim, the works) to tell everyone I basically Owned It when I was alive.
- paulddraper 10y ago
  ...and that's why funerals/burials are so expensive :P
  - 0xfeba 10y ago
    Well, seriously though, they are expensive because the industry* takes advantage of people who are grieving. *Service Corporation International namely, and other companies that buy up local funeral homes to basically price fix the area.
    - pc86 10y ago
      Yes those evil corporations, making a profit by providing a service!
      - 0xfeba 10y ago
        > Yes those evil corporations, making a profit by providing a service! Pretty low quality comment. Perhaps you misread. There are funeral homes that provide a service. Then there is SCI, which buys up the local homes and just increases prices. And they get away with it because they take advantage of people when they are mourning, aka emotional, and state regulations on the death industry vary widely. The whole industry needs some heavy federal baseline regulations, IMO. > SCI charges $6,256 on average (excluding casket and cemetery plot), 42 percent more than independents. [1] And then there's numerous cases of SCI just overselling plots, skipping embalming regulations, etc. [1] - http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-24/is-funeral-home-chain-scis-growth-coming-at-the-expense-of-mourners http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-24/is-funeral-h...

I went there about a year ago. This is a gravestone in the churchyard. Just saying... https://goo.gl/photos/C9JnEHddouNcKuEb8 https://goo.gl/photos/C9JnEHddouNcKuEb8

buro9 10y ago

Just yesterday I saw that phrase on a church next to where I live. It was the most prominent phrase in the stonework around the top of the building, and it is a strange phrase so I looked it up. Psalm 89:48 The gist being that "all men must die, even God's own son". For it is a necessary step on the path to enter heaven, and implies the "you can't take it with you" thing about wealth and property. It also implies mercy, for whatever pain you suffer in life, the pain will end one day (such mercy!). Death, the great leveller, making all the same status. But yeah... amusing in light of the paper and zombies.

sbardle 10y ago

Sure, but I'd still want a bling tombstone (angels, cherubim, the works) to tell everyone I basically Owned It when I was alive.

paulddraper 10y ago
...and that's why funerals/burials are so expensive :P
- 0xfeba 10y ago
  Well, seriously though, they are expensive because the industry* takes advantage of people who are grieving. *Service Corporation International namely, and other companies that buy up local funeral homes to basically price fix the area.
  - pc86 10y ago
    Yes those evil corporations, making a profit by providing a service!
    - 0xfeba 10y ago
      > Yes those evil corporations, making a profit by providing a service! Pretty low quality comment. Perhaps you misread. There are funeral homes that provide a service. Then there is SCI, which buys up the local homes and just increases prices. And they get away with it because they take advantage of people when they are mourning, aka emotional, and state regulations on the death industry vary widely. The whole industry needs some heavy federal baseline regulations, IMO. > SCI charges $6,256 on average (excluding casket and cemetery plot), 42 percent more than independents. [1] And then there's numerous cases of SCI just overselling plots, skipping embalming regulations, etc. [1] - http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-24/is-funeral-home-chain-scis-growth-coming-at-the-expense-of-mourners http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-24/is-funeral-h...