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Is it okay to run in a cemetery?
- dotcoma 3y agoOnly if a ghost is chasing you.
- sp332 3y agoJogging, sure.
- kleer001 3y agoIf something is chasing you, sure.
- accrual 3y agoWhy not? If it's profitable, go for it.
- accrual 3y agoPlease disregard my foolish comment.
- aurizon 3y agoOne dark night I walked through a cemetery, and as luck would have it, I fell into a freshly dug grave and I was knocked out - soft hit. I tried to get out, but it was too wide to wedge across and it was almost 10 feet deep, so I tried again and again to escape - to no avail, so I slumped down and sat on the earth. A bit later a singing drunk came along the same path and fell in. He did what I did, wedging, jumping again and again. Seeing this, I spoke up and said 'you will never get out of here' - he did!
- tuatoru 3y agoA story that could have been written by Lydia Davis.
- defrost 3y agoOne of Dave Allen's many graveyard jokes. https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q3/12856.html https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q3/12856.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqbEMmI78HY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqbEMmI78HY
- aurizon 3y agoyes, I have heard it back in the day and it came to mind, Dave is very very good.
- clipsy 3y agoI used to routinely take late night strolls through a large cemetery near my apartment in grad school. I was never once chased by a zombie, skeleton, vampire, or lich; but it turns out the local police took a dim view of someone "wandering" the cemetery late at night.
- gregjor 3y agoIs it okay to bury dead people at a park or athletic field? Is it okay for my dog to crap on your lawn? Show some respect.
- dieselgate 3y agoSome houses share a fence with cemetery - I get your point for the most part but where to draw the line?
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y agoThe fence, obviously.
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- luluthefirst 3y agoCemeteries are often sad creepy dumps to start with, which cultures different than yours would find disrespectful of the dead. To me, OP would help integrate these places into the life of the community, honoring those who are interred there.
- cafard 3y agoActually, for an annual fee you can let your dog run off-leash in Congressional Cemetery in SE Washington, DC. I assume that the cemetery requires that you clean up after your dog. The one dog owner I knew who paid the fee certainly would have in any case.
- jschveibinz 3y agoThis is an interesting question. It begs for an essay on the topic of respect: when, why, where and how. Thanks for the writing prompt.
- keiferski 3y agoI recently wrote about this unique Bulgarian memorial practice called Necrologs, but in the second half of the post, I talk a bit about the future of graveyards. You might find it interesting: https://onthearts.com/p/the-necrologs-of-bulgaria https://onthearts.com/p/the-necrologs-of-bulgaria
- zeroego 3y agoI was going to read it, but that pop-up asking me to sign in or sign up for your newsletter kept blocking my view. For a blog, with what I'd imagine would be limited readership, why would you insist that people login or sign up for your newsletter? I think you'll drive away more readers than retain using this method.
- keiferski 3y agoThat is just a default behavior of Substack. It's not something I chose to set up myself.
- moomoo11 3y agoThe whole planet is a cemetery if you really think about it.
- jzombie 3y agoOnly if you're being chased by the living...
- cafard 3y agoThat depends, or depended. According to something I read years ago, the Army does not want you to run in Arlington Cemetery. The Archdiocese of Washington had no objection to runners in the cemeteries that it owns.
- kypro 3y agoI'll give my autistic and non-autistic view. Some people could potentially find this offensive. They're unlikely to be offended enough to say anything to you, but never the less may not appreciate their loved-ones place of rest being used as an outside gym. You should find another place to go running. The cemetery is neither the only place to run, nor the most appropriate. On the other hand, what is and isn't appropriate is entirely subjective. I know I'd be happy for someone to run by my grave, and ideally I think cemeteries should be beautiful enough that people want to go to them for reasons other than to morn. They should be happy places. Not sad. If someone disagrees, that is ultimately their problem. So long as you're not doing anything otherwise objectionable while running (you're sticking to paths, not littering, etc) you should continue to run in the cemetery.
- 8b16380d 3y agoMy local cemetery encourages it. Whether that makes it right is another story.
- k310 3y agoOnly if it's OK to run UNDER a cemetery. Case in point: King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston. Subway runs under it. https://charliehalloween.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-3/p1283445150-3.jpg https://charliehalloween.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-3/p1283445150-... That said, too small to run.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoThere is an awesome cemetery in Sydney on the ocean adjacent walking/running/biking trail (so it is overlooking the ocean). I guess you can't run in it, but run by it sure.
- rl1987 3y agoMost people in the cemetery are too dead to care.