Yokohama Gaijin Cemetery
A view across the street last snowy Saturday...
posted by Nobuko @ 3:49 AM
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this picture looks curiously like a painting... how nice to place all the foreigner's remains away from citizen's...
Yes of course. The cemetery is from the turn of the century (the 19th century) and the foreigners wanted their remains buried in a Christian cemetery, no cremation.
and now the city government is trying to get rid of it.
so it's the "christian cemetery" then
or a cemetary for people who don't want to be cremated and thus won't fit in a normal buddhist cemetary, where they don't bury entire corpses.
but not necessarily the gaijin cemetery...
perhaps not. perhaps the "probably gaijin" cemetary because something like less than 1% of japanese people are christian... and would want full-bodied, worms-gonna-eatcha burials?
Which brings to mind, donating your body to science, which has to do with the book I'm reading now called "Stiff." They must have very few people in Japan that donate their body to science, because of the Buddhist custom of creation and the stigma against handling the dead.
I want to be cremated and spread in different places (we'll discuss those places at a later time, like when i figure out where deserves the company of my soot)
Kev: Thanx for the input, but discuss it with your future generations. I want to be cremated too, but you can put me in one place, somewhere in Oregon, because I don't have a plot here.
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