Was trying to think, but are road fatalities the only deaths that attract this practice?
I appreciate that these deaths may be very traumatic for those left behind, but surely the exact point at which their loved ones died is not that relevant. They visit the graves like the rest of us who have lost loved ones.
I found this practise quite strange (for want of a better word) when I moved to Ireland. I'd never seen it before. I haven't given much thought to the reasons why but I know there is a website dedicated to listing all the head stones on the side of the roads.
In NZ they have plain white crosses so if there are a few on the road you now something bad happened here for whatever reason.I remember a proposal by a County Councillor a few years ago to standardise these types of memorials so as to avoid outlandish ones being erected. Also so that the public would be aware that there could be a potential risk with that stretch of road. Nothing came of it in the end.
That's the sensible approach I think - otherwise the expense of a second headstone is (to me) quite daft. Any number of useful things could be done with the money.in one case the family put up a life saving ring at the memorial.
Agree with OP.
I particularly hate the joy riding death or drunk and speeding home from the pub death ones. I think they glorify this behaviour.
That's the sensible approach I think - otherwise the expense of a second headstone is (to me) quite daft. Any number of useful things could be done with the money.
would you put a gravestone in the supermarket where someone died of a heart attack ?
The headstone does not indicate anything about the true facts, a casual observer would be led to believe that a poor child was unfortunately killed through no fault of his own.
I wonder how many of the other headstones at roadsides around the country mislead in a similiar way?
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