BS. If that's what her family says she would have wanted I'm inclined to side with the family.
Why is this so wrong? Maybe the lady really liked Spongebob. I think it's more than a little snobbish to piss on her/her family's wishes because they aren't sufficiently high class. If it were pornographic or somehow disturbing I might understand ( have to see it on a case-by-case I guess ) but this is just people being snooty. Out in the real world people are often tacky or weird. Let 'em be. The stone is for her family, and if other people can't deal with it then eff 'em.
Wow guys, heaven forbid people mourn the loss and honor the lives of their loved ones in non-offensive but possibly tacky ways. I mean, we gotta have priorities in society, and tackiness is just too dastardly a threat to risk. Ungh. Kinda queezy, but not from the ugly tombstone.
BS. If that's what her family says she would have wanted I'm inclined to side with the family.
Why is this so wrong? Maybe the lady really liked Spongebob. I think it's more than a little snobbish to piss on her/her family's wishes because they aren't sufficiently high class. If it were pornographic or somehow disturbing I might understand ( have to see it on a case-by-case I guess ) but this is just people being snooty. Out in the real world people are often tacky or weird. Let 'em be. The stone is for her family, and if other people can't deal with it then eff 'em.
Yeah, I'm a little disturbed by all the people in this thread who are trying to act like the authority on mourning and what's okay and what isn't. If the tombstone was vulgar or obviously not alright (a guy fapping isn't okay, a bloody knife isn't okay, etc), then sure, remove the tombstone but this is Spongebob, presumably the woman's favourite TV show to the extent that she wanted it to be above her grave. It was agreed upon, it should stay.
^By that logic if i live in an apartment block and have bought a place there, then in the future someone buys another apartment and settles in while accepting with the person he bought it from that he can place a spongebob statue in the entrance to the building, the rest of the people who live/go there have to accept it.
I don't really think that is a good idea, nor what is expected, given that liberty of one can only extend up to the analogous liberty of others in the same area.
No, it's more like you are complaining about somebody having a mailbox in a residential subdivision you don't like. Or that they painted their house the "wrong" color. If this were Arlington National Cemetary, where there is almost no variation at all between tombstones by design, this wouldn't be an issue. This is just petty ass people deciding that something is unpleasing to the eye, and therefor they have decided they are entitled not to have to look at it.
^By that logic if i live in an apartment block and have bought a place there, then in the future someone buys another apartment and settles in while accepting with the person he bought it from that he can place a spongebob statue in the entrance to the building, the rest of the people who live/go there have to accept it.
I don't really think that is a good idea, nor what is expected, given that liberty of one can only extend up to the analogous liberty of others in the same area.
The proper analogy would be a Home Owner's Association like what Farm Boy said, not placing a statue in front of an entrance to an apartment complex (which makes no bloody sense anyways).
^I don't see it that way at all, which is why my analogy was entirely different. If the family of the person burried have no right to the grave, well then the tombstone can change. If they have a right to the grave (and they do) then the other people's families have a right to the cemetery just as much. To claim that a 7feet statue of a stupid cartoon character with some demented laugh is not really a bad item to have in a place of mourning is in my view quite irrational.
There probably are variable practices around the world but locally some still do think that after buying an apartment they own it and are free to to do anything they like with it - neither of which are true.
One buys shares that give the rights to control within reasonable limits the apartment ie anything behind their front door - public areas like stairways, lobbies, yard, parking places etc are controlled solely by the housing cooperative which actually still owns everything in the condominium so anyone putting a statue or even a flyer without a specific permission is prohibited.
What comes to the tombstone itself I don't much care it nor is it likely that I'll see anything like here but it isn't offensive so why would I care; those who are buried nearby certainly don't - my personal taste for it is irrelevant.
As it was originally permitted it should stay so I'm camping with Synsensa & co in this issue. A bit of variety would be nice in the graveyards though I'm not an active tombstonespotter.
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Too many simultaneous replies - I was actually writing with this in my mind.
^By that logic if i live in an apartment block and have bought a place there, then in the future someone buys another apartment and settles in while accepting with the person he bought it from that he can place a spongebob statue in the entrance to the building, the rest of the people who live/go there have to accept it.
Tacky, but if the cemetery has a problem with it they shouldn't have agreed to it.
I mean, I cannot envision any situation where a spongebob statue in a cemetery isn't tacky.
Tacky, but if the cemetery has a problem with it they shouldn't have agreed to it.
I mean, I cannot envision any situation where a spongebob statue in a cemetery isn't tacky.
Tackiness is somewhat subjective but I think most people would agree that a 7 foot tall tombstone of Sponge Bob definitely meets the definition of tacky.
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