Choosing a burial spot
Burial Plots -- Who Needs Them?
The challenges of finding a final resting place
It’s February, the weather is cold, damp, and depressing, and I’m contemplating death. Well, not the actual death part, more of the what’s next bit. And no, I’m not pondering the existence of an afterlife. I’m worrying about burial. As in where, trying not to think too much about when.
I started on this merry train of thought after hearing the sad news of Rosalynn Carter’s death.
Along with details of her last days, many of the media reports mentioned that after a memorial service, the former first lady would be laid to rest at the Carter family home in Plains, Georgia.
How reassuring it must have been for her to have known all along where she’d end up. Coming from a family with no large estate or historic burial plot, my final destination is less clear.
So far, my husband and I have resisted the junk mail offerings of shaded, well-tended municipal memorial gardens. And with no place of worship offering us a patch of ground for eternity, we are left in burial location limbo.
A couple of years back, we visited a section of a California cemetery where my husband’s family members have been buried since the early 1900s. It was…
