Round my way there's a full-on carved headstone monument, by the side of the road in the middle of an industrial estate.
Now I understand grief and mourning, and the need to have a concrete physical focus for your emotion. But I don't understand the desire to mark the place where the loved-one died, as opposed to where they were laid to rest.

Personally I think I'd want nothing to do with the place they died. I'd probably drive a different way to avoid it.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 11:01, 2 replies)

I thought that too,
but on further reflection decided that I actually probably would want to visit the place (maybe not immediately), and i probably would visit it quite often - if it was the place that my loved one spent their final moments.

But I certainly wouldn't want to put up some kind of memorial thing on the spot. I somehow find that disturbing.
( Richard Shitheels, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 11:44, closed)

Agreed

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 13:52, closed)

There are a couple of these near me
I wonder what will happen when some roadworks come along and they have to dig it up or move it or something. Actually the inevitable outcome will probably be a letter to the Mail.
(Smale is stuffed, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 11:54, closed)

Haven't you seen Poltergeist?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 14:59, closed)