Garden for a Taphophile

I just love cemeteries.

[swforester]

Inscription over the gate to the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven CT. 2016

[pommegf]

graveyards during springtime ♡

[sorrowsofasoul]

[nocturneandbone]

double exposure of the full moon on 35mm film

[j0celynh0rr0r]

[theserpentspsalm]

[libra-001011-deactivated2025101]

[wandering-cemeteries]

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Nov. 2016

[wastedskins]

Resident Evil 4, 2005

[nomeusstuff]

[thatsbelievable]

To be clear, I did not write this.

[fickdichistwarum]

I admire the level of spite her loved ones had to make damn sure that everyone would know how she died, even 154 years later. They payed for good, deep carving on a simple, sturdily shaped stone. They wanted this to last. I suspect because that was all the justice they were going to get, the 19th Century wasn't exactly known for consumer safety laws.

[hernymills]

according to this article about the headstone,

"In the 1960s an older, broken stone with the same wording was replaced by the current one by Girard historian Hazel Kibler, who died in 1973 at age 89"

which i hope would gratify the loved ones, that someone found it that important even a century later

[fickdichistwarum]

Context! Thank you! I love additional context! I think it would gratify Ellen Shannon's loved ones to know that a stranger a century later would do that for them.

[lovecrumbss]

oh to have foxes play where I've laid to rest

[e13ktr4]

[librabitch-deactivated20250323]

[hauntedapartmentx]

[sorrowsofasoul]

[cybervoidd]

photo credit- @milkywaymilf

[strangledplanet]