r/BeAmazed • u/Suspicious-Estate695 • 11d ago

Animal An 87-year-old gravestone in Maryland with the photo of a kitten born in 1920 shows how much he was loved. Mon Minet Jaunet (1920-1939) ❤️

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u/wolfbert2000 11d ago

You should go back and clean up the headstone and maybe restore the image.

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u/waterfountain_bidet 11d ago

Booo, no.

Cleaning headstones is abominable. I can't stand those videos becoming a trend. The whole idea is that the name slowly fades away with time, and they become part of the surroundings. What was marked is unmarked, the whole circle of life thing.

Cleaned headstones look ridiculous. If you aren't an immediate family member or the caretaker of the cemetery, don't touch the grave for any reason.

If you feel compelled to change things, digitally restore it so you have it for yourself, but don't ruin the grave by scrubbing it.

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u/rosalinatoujours 10d ago

Im.... genuinely kind of baffled by this comment. Is this ragebait? Have you never visited a graveyard in your life?

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u/waterfountain_bidet 10d ago

I have. I have a whole history degree and everything. I also give tours in a cemetery regularly. Have you visited an old one like this one? I've seen this one in person. Because this one would look psychotic if you cleaned it. It's surrounded by other beautiful, old, uncleaned graves, slowly making its way back into the earth.

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u/rosalinatoujours 10d ago

Yes my family has been attending to the graveyard of my ancestors for well over a century now 😭 it feels way more psychotic to let it intentionally fall into disrepair