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Why do you bother to bring flowers and light candles in the cemetery? Do you do it for the living or for the dead?

It's something I am wondering about.
I know it's become tradition, like a means to gather with family and respect the dead.

But the dead are dead. Inside the tombs, they're bones. Inside the urns, they're ashes.

I mean no disrespect. I just genuinely like to understand. Deep down, if there is no one who would see you do it or who would expect you to do it, would you still do it? And why?

Would you do it for the living? For yourself? For the dead? Why?
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After everyone's gone they come out of their graves and enjoy the smell of the flowers
Casheyane · 31-35, F
@Casheyane what's CoCo ?
Casheyane · 31-35, F
@BridgeOvertroubledWaters Disney movie Coco.

I think it's based on a Mexican belief. That on a certain day, people prepare a path of flower petals and put pictures of their dead in an altar. Like if they don't out a picture, then the souls would not be able to cross to the land of the living to visit the family. Something like that.

Is that what it's like for you too?
@Casheyane I'm still alive, can't tell you yet 🙂
Casheyane · 31-35, F
@BridgeOvertroubledWaters :) I meant the belief and motivation for why you do it haha.

I did not mean for you to think you are the crossing soul.
@Casheyane it is respect for those that are no longer with us