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Ancient burial site – If you fancy yourself being buried in the same manner as your ancient ancestors, you should check out Sacred Stones located in Bedfordshire, England. They have created a momentous site for your final resting space.
These are filled with niches much like a columbarium, which replicate the ancient burial sites of our ancestors, many times referred to as barrows. This tranquil underground location is constructed with walls of limestone and huge stones and is lite throughout by candles. It would be difficult to find a more captivating and serene location to spend eternity. There are more locations under construction and others are planned for the future.
Out of a plane - Commonly referred
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With this 3D technology, your urn is custom made into most anything you can imagine, including a likeness of the deceased, a celebrity, hats, your favorite car, or whatever they loved. An appealing semblance of your choosing is made from a ceramic or plastic material containing the ashes. The 3D application then follows with amazing results.
Wine – Here’s a great idea. Maynard James Keenan’s, the lead singer of the band Tool, decided to scatter his mother’s remains over his vineyard. He later named one of the wines after her.
Frisbee – Ed Headrick was an inventor who figured out how to improve the flying ability of an unknown disk toy, from which the Frisbee was born. He left instructions that after his death, his ashes be integrated into the plastic and a batch of Frisbees manufactured for his friends and family.
Made into music –Did your loved one have a particular song or band that they loved? Perhaps he or she recorded some words of sentiment after they passed for the family to hear? Ashes can now be compressed into a vinyl record, which holds a recording of your choosing. Of course, you'll have to have a family member that still has a record
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They are constructed with organic materials, which easily breaks down in the soil. Ecopod makes one that resembles a large acorn. It’s made from molded Kraft paper and has a secure lid that makes it also great for displaying or perfect for burial. It's an excellent alternative to caskets, which can have a negative impact on the environment.
Personal urn – You no longer need to worry about forgetting what they looked like over time. This urn will remind you every day. They are created from pictures and facial recognition software to look just like your loved one. A little creepy? Yes. A unique idea? Definitely yes.
Papier mâché urn – You can purchase one of these, but wouldn’t it be great to make your own urn. Papier mâché is a popular craft and easy to learn. It an opportunity to design and create an individualistic representation of a loved one. Perfect if they were into shabby chic.
Shell urns – These beautiful urns are crafted with biodegradable materials in the shape of a shell, which contains the cremains. It can be buried, but they are usually placed into a body of water where it floats for approximately five minutes or longer. It then begins to sink while gradually releasing the
In Duncannon Pa at the top of Cemetery Road is the Duncannon Presbyterian Cemetery. The road narrows and bends in between large sections of green lawn filled with gravestones. Follow the most outside road around the cemetery towards the older side where the stones begin to fade, slow down for the sharp bend and at the far corner you'll find where the first log church that was built in Duncannon stood. The one that is standing there now is not that church, but a replica, built to look exactly like the original.
However, that meaning is not always known. It is believed that Stonehenge was most likely made to bring people of a community together as well as to mark a place where individuals could gather to perform rituals, although many theories about why it was built and the purpose it serves exist. For example, recent studies show that the monument may mark the graveyard of a ruling dynasty. There is evidence of over 200 cremated human remains that have been buried at the site within a period of 500 years. Some evidence suggests the site may have been a piece in a larger series of structures used for funerary rituals. The only thing that is knows for sure “is that Stonehenge held meaning for the Neolithic community that built it”
...ent compared to the years it held a prison camp. It no longer has thousands of people working behind it's gates. Nor does it have guards surrounding the area. Today it has long rows of graves. A remembrance of all the lives lost.
When someone dies their bones are burned and crushed into ash and consumed by the relatives. It puts a persons soul at peace to find a resting place within their family, it would be an abomination to bury them in the ground. Once this ceremony is finished the person is gone. Their name or person is never to be mentioned again.
Cemeteries represent numerous lives and memories commemorating their deaths in scenes of cultural and social
well. It is a dark and secret place, a place which actually controlls matters of life,
Stonehenge was a stone structure established a long time ago by civilizations before the Druid age. More than 4,000 years ago, the people of the Neolithic period supposedly decided to build a massive monument using earth, timber and eventually, stones.They placed it high on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England about 137 kilometres southwest of London. The purpose to build Stonehenge still remains a mystery. Stonehenge could have been a temple, an astronomical calendar, or a guide to the heavens. Stonehenge acts as a prehistoric timepiece, allowing us to speculate on what it would have been like during the Neolithic Period, and who could have built this megalithic wonder.
Both of these pieces of art have much in common. Their functions are almost identical. Both were used to mark burial sites and to honor the deceased buried there. The body language of both the pieces’ figures are similar, with one seated and several others standing around them. Neither has color, but unlike the grave stele, the funerary banquet does show some degree of emotion. The figures in the banquet scene have slight smiles. These pieces played an important role in their times, honoring those who had passed on to the afterlife. For both of these people, it was important to memorialize them very similar to our practices today.
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There are many wonders of the world. There is the Great Wall of China, the Coliseum, the Hagia Sophia, the Taj Mahal, and many other places across the globe that has struck wonder into the world. Yet there is a place that not even the smartest of scholars cannot seem to understand. On a grassy piece of land in England there are heavy stones that stand tall, placed side-by-side and some even lay upon one another. It is known as the Stonehenge. Many people have heard of it, and many people have theories of why these stones are standing there today. Yet no one seems to know the exact purpose of this monument. There are many other scholars who have theories about the Stonehenge being used for religious purposes as well. My theory is that the purpose of the Stonehenge for religious and ritualistic.
...t, monks will come and recite scriptures while mourners offer gifts. The body if taken to the cremation site on the fourth day while about eight monks carry a long white cord connected to the casket. At the place of cremation, family members take pictures by the casket and walk around the casket three times, symbolizing traveling through the cycle of death and rebirth. Ten “important people” then place a set of yellow robes on the white cord, after, the senior monk collects them. Buddhist tradition calls this symbolically contemplating the dead, which “brings merit to those who provide opportunity for the monks to do so (Cite text pg 366).” After the cremation the remaining ashes and bones are “made into the shape of a human being with the head facing east.” The remains are then put in a reliquary built in the monastery. Grief is not stressed in Buddhist ceremonies.
Farther north above these people lived the group nicknamed Urnfield. They are called as such for their burial traditions as well; storing cremated bones in urns and burying them in ‘flat cemeteries.’
The disposition of the dead is facilitated in variety of ways because people have died at all points in history and the living have always mourned the dearth of loved ones with some type of ceremony. The way a person is buried is sometimes the deceased person’s wishes as stated in a will or legal document or it could be the decision of the family. But most times once you are dead others can do with your body as they wish.
The Stonehenge at Salisbury Plains has been shrouded in mystery even before the time of Christ, but the truth of the matter is that nobody truly knows how this monument came to be. The origins of this monument range from logical theories to totally far fetched science fiction and middle age theories. This site has been around for over 4 millennia, but before the stones were even erected or on British land, it was used as a burial site. Then comes the weird theories, like Merlin from the King Arthur tales using his powers to move all of the stones into their formation or extraterrestrials coming down from outer space and giving knowledge to the ancient people in the area. Aside from these theories that lack any form of logical reasoning, the most widely accepted theory is that the monument was created as a religious shrine for the Druids of the area.
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