Make Holiday Cemetery Visits a Meaningful Tradition
We all know that the holidays provide time both for celebration and bonding with the family you love. Often, we join together with dispersed family members from around the country and remember the good times past and try to make new memories for the future. Many of us try to reconcile our pasts with our children’s present, hoping that our traditions become theirs, and that they adopt the values of their families as experienced through these times of togetherness.
The holidays provide the perfect reason to explain why securing a cemetery site is so important. No doubt you’ve heard the idea that knowing where you come from is the secret to succeeding in where you are going, and it’s during times like the holidays that it is important to teach the new generations about the individuals in your family from the past generations. Explain where your family traditions come from and how they have persisted over the years. Explain the importance of the past loved ones in your life to your children and just why you hope they’ll do the same with their children one day.
Visiting the resting place of your loved ones can be a meaningful holiday tradition.
Some people perceive visits to cemeteries as sad occasions, but many others appreciate the opportunity to reflect on loved ones. Having a place to visit to think of past loved ones can be comforting and important to family members who wish to pay respect to past generations. Feeling that your loved ones are with you even after they pass is a gift that’s difficult to put into words, and for many, that’s exactly what a permanent resting place allows.
Some choose to have picnics at the burial sites of loved ones or to decorate headstones to the theme of whichever holiday approaches. Merely visiting in with old friends or family is a source of enormous comfort for many, and cemeteries can be places to acknowledge loss, hurt, and acceptance.
Whether you’ve chosen a headstone, cremation niche, mausoleum, or another type of resting place, consider the impact that choice will have on your family. Consider the location of that final resting place accordingly, and know you’re doing your family a favor by being prepared for the inevitable.
