That's a sad subject to talk about. That's
how we see a cemetery. A place that some people could afford to pay for a space
and a stone that you can be remembered by your family/friends for the eternity.
What you guys don’t
know is that Cemetery in fact is meaningless, at least for me now, maybe
afterwards for you as well after reading it.
The act of bury
bodies started 15000 years ago in the region that is the actual Morocco, where
people use bury dead bodies inside caves.
However just in the
7th century it started to become more popular, when the Catholic Church started
to control most the burials. That's where everything started.
In this time you
need to be catechized in the Catholic Church. Meaning that you need to be
baptized and have a catholic education as well. The only exceptions were babies
that had catechized parents.
It's like that, if
you weren't catholic you didn't have the right to be buried in the catholic
funeral. Also if you committed any crime against the Catholic Church you
couldn't have this "privilege". Crimes? Like heresy, for instance if
you’re saying that our planet has a round shape. Great reasons.
It's still not the
most relevant fact. You could choose any religion to make a bury celebration or
something like that. But even if you're catholic, in this period if you wanted
to have a stonemason, you need to be someone notable in the society and have
enough money to pay for it then having the nice souvenir from our death. By the
way, it makes me remember the current period that we're living.
If you couldn't
afford it, you could still buy a headstone with your name, kind of middle class
from today. But in this time if you were poor, you would be buried in the
ground with wood cross, where your body would be deteriorated afterwards. By
the way I don't see anything wrong on it, I would prefer to be buried in this
way.
This was called as
a place of worship, but for me it was just a way that the Catholic Church was
making money.
The time passed,
but things are not that different. In the USA the average cost of a Funeral,
the last souvenir to the dead body, is about $9000 dollars. In fact how much
your family is going to pay for you after you're died can be $800 dollars if
you're from Russia, but it can also be $80000 dollars if you're from Japan.
Honestly for me
this just a capitalist way how to make money out of the people's death.
Everyone that can't afford to pay a funeral is going to still fit in the
statistic of people that in the 7th century couldn't pay for it. They'll be
buried in simple places that they body are going to deteriorated quickly.
That's how I would like to be bury one day or I could just donate my organs and
burn my body afterwards.
Everything that we
can do is while we're still alive. Nothing matters after our death. I don't
really see I reason for the family keeps paying to keep a dead body without any
life in a special place. In São Paulo, city in Brazil, we need to pay normally
from $200 to $800 for each meter square and pay regularly some fees to maintain
the cemetery.
Honestly, I prefer
that my family use this money to make more important things in their life, like
travel, study, repair the house. I don’t know, the fact that I'll be dead means
that nothing that happened after my death is going to chance my life anymore,
meaning that I don't need a funeral or headstone.
It seems a sad
subject to talk, right? Not really, just think that you're still alive and you
can do so many things to contribute positively to the society. You're still
breathing, you can still love, you can still see how beautiful is this world
and who is living here as well, just enjoy it once you're alive, because
afterwards the headstone isn't change anything in your life.
Why am I talking
about it now? Well, I just visited with Nikola and my Aunt's friend a beautiful
and immense cemetery in Zagreb that inspired to write about it.
Check it out some pictures and never forget to
enjoy every second of your life.
References:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/galileo-is-convicted-of-heresy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery
https://extra.globo.com/noticias/brasil/preco-do-metro-quadrado-em-cemiterios-mais-caro-do-que-de-imoveis-em-sp-571825.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechumen
http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/city_index/214309-cost-death-funeral
https://www.parting.com/blog/funeral-costs-how-much-does-an-average-funeral-cost/
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