Thread: Swiss Cemetaries

Quote: Peg A I've been a few times to the cemetery outside of Luzern where my hubby's grandparents are buried. The church is beautiful, the cemetery is also beautiful and unlike any I'd seen in the US. I know my m-i-l puts a lot of thought and care into what she's going to bring there in pots vs what is going to be planted... Meanwhile, my own grandfather's ashes were scattered in a field in Missouri where he used to...

Quote: flavio I haven't come across any funny Swiss epitaphs though. This one from a Georgia cemetery: "I told you I was sick!" Or this one from Maryland: Here lies an Atheist All dressed up And no place to go. All the better without the epitaphs here, if you ask me

Somebody with a dark sense of humor circa 2 thousand years ago.. Quod Sum Eris Where I am now, you will be

Quote: Enaj Please don't bury me in Switzerland. I find the cemetries too neat and too well cared for and all the headstones a certain size and shape. Let me rest in peace for eternity in a grave that is overgrown with weeds and brambles with a well weathered headstone in the shape of an angel. Who wants to be dug up after 70 years (25 years in the village where I live)? Morbid. That's scary. I didn't know about this rule....

Thanks for the pic Flashman. As creepy as bone walls are, the question of what they do with the other bones is even creepier. Does anyone here know? There must be someone among all the diverse EFers who has a foot in the door of the Swiss bone-removal industry.

Quote: 10:30 Yes, I agree beautifully maintained cemeteries here. But I always get the creeps when I see some poor pile of bones being dug up by a backhoe. They only get 70 or so years to be dead, then they are removed to make room for the next generations of bones. I know they can't hold onto them forever, but it still gives me the creeps to see it. I mean, what do they do with the bones? Some little villages in Alsace (maybe in CH as...

The cemetary in Gruyere is beautiful, as well.

Great minds .....!... Just last week I took a stroll around the cemetary here in my village - and as you say ...... Beautifully maintained! There may have been an odd "neglected" one, but I sure could not find it ...... Every grave has beautifully maintained little gardens, an abundance of flowering plants, little thingies decorating the scene ........ and as you mention ...... the trade of the person/family is evident in the...

Well, it depends where you're living. Some cemeteries are just beautiful places. Other are just cemeteries... But it always a quiet place.... unless some spirits stay there

I don't consider the beauty of cemetaries to be in any way morbid. They convey, care, love, peace and tranquility, not to mention grat skill in some of the designs of the graves. I am sure that there are many other great examples but Lauterbrunnen (pictured) has to be the most exceptional that I have seen. Other great ones include Zermatt mountaineers cemetary and Unterseen, Interlaken