I have been an amateur genealogist for several years. Every once in a while I come across something which really strikes a chord with me. Here is one striking definition of a cemetery, as presented by the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery brochure, in Middle Village, New York.
This is a Cemetery…Lives are commemorated, Deaths are recorded, Families are reunited, Memories are made tangible and Love is undisguised.
This is a Cemetery...Communities accord respect, Families bestow reverence, Historians seek information and Our Heritage is thereby enriched. Testimonies of devotion, pride and warmth are carved in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life, not the death, of a loved one.
The cemetery is homeland for memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. A cemetery is a history of a people, a perpetual record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today.
A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering – always.
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