Still on my tour of Woodlawn Cemetery pictures. I'll be darned if some of these mausoleum's aren't bigger than my apartment. That strikes me as unfair. What is the point of the contemporary mausoleum anyway? It's not like the olden days where the dead king needed room to take his stuff with him. Now we know you can't take it with you.
Besides being rather grand - what is equally annoying is that most of the mausoleums are designed by artists! Artists for the dead. That must be pretty steady work.
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I think there's a lot of guilt somewhere when someone spends that much money building a grave. Maybe compensating for things that should have been said or done while the person was alive...
It's the desire to live on. If you have a nice monument esp. in the form of a nifty house - then somehow you will continue to live on. (See pyramids for example). Though there may be a fair amount of guilt on the part of any king.
If you are a King - then proving to the rest of the world that you are an immortal is pretty good p.r.
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