Talk:Cemeteries

Significant US cemeteries

A search inside voyage with words cemetery and usa - has over 90, rather than list the full number, it would be very helpful if anyone with any specific knowledge of the more significant cemeteries in the US might add links. Thanks. I can imagine Arlington, and a few others that are well known outside the US might be easy, it is what others, that are not so obvious to an outsider might be... sats (talk) 15:29, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

City of the Dead in Cairo

I may have missed it (perhaps the name is given in Arabic only?), but I don't see it in the Cairo guide. The pyramids are also tombs, so they should be listed, I would think. Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:27, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

I meant this place. Seems it's not mentioned in our article. Pyramids and Valley of the Kings should be listed, but maybe in separate section called ancient cemeteries, with Stonehenge (it's a cemetery really?) Jjtk (talk) 07:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

That is why inthe lead cemetery paragraph I take care to identify that royal tombs and memorials (as an examples) are known as tombs and memorials - and are not necessarily known as a cemetery - the Taj Mahal in India is a royal tomb and memorial - I did not see when I visited 4 years ago anything about the site being identified as a cemetery - the title of this article a deliberate conflation - it is only one aspect of the whole range of grave/cemetery/tomb/memorial complex of sites. As for 'ancient cemeteries' - there is a vast range of old and hard to fathom sites (fathoming the purpose or meaning) where invariably human remains are found. That doesnt make a site a cemetery.

It seems for purposes of a wikivoyage travel topic having a single title that could direct to other examples and variations of places of buiral and memorialisation - is something that keeps within the goals and ungoals parameters... sats (talk) 09:11, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

I think "tomb" and "cemetery" are really synonymous, with the exception that a cemetery is more likely to be for many more dead people, and a tomb may be for one or a few people. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Delays

In Funerals there is this sentence:

"Others require delays in numerical or calendrical auspiciousness."

Could it be reworded in a way that also I would understand?

And what about frozen earth – is it still common somewhere to wait until spring before having the funeral? I know it was common here once, at least in the archipelago, but that was long ago. @Tuyuhun: Are funerals postponed until spring in Alaska, Canada, Greenland or Siberia? Or what parts of the world is this about?

–LPfi (talk) 07:23, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

The way I'd understand that is that in some cultures, funerals can be delayed till days that are considered luckier for the soul of the departed, but it would be better for someone more familiar with that to phrase it. Jewish funerals are traditionally required to be the day after the person's death, unless the next day is the Sabbath, and then that postpones the funeral only one day. I imagine the postponement for reasons of auspiciousness could happen in Chinese funerals, but I hadn't heard of it. Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:48, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

When my grandmother in northern Ohio died in a December past, we had to wait until May before the ground at the cemetery had thawed enough to give her a proper burial. I do agree that "calendrical" is a very obtuse adjective and that sentence can be reworded. Tuyuhun (talk) 04:31, 22 November 2023 (UTC)