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Would you live near a cemetery?

Would you live near a cemetery?

  • Yes

    Votes: 55 72.4%

  • No

    Votes: 21 27.6%
  • Total voters
    76
Dead bodies? Doesn't bother me.

The traffic of mourners and funeral processions, however, might get a bit tiring.

If you're living up (pun intended ) the dead end of a graveyard - where all the graves are 50yrs+ old, then you're not going to have a problem as the busiest traffic you'll get is from birds and squirrels. Infact, it could be quite a benefit.

If you're up the 'active' new end, where they're still dumping the deceased...then it might get a bit tedious.
 
No because of the constant funeral processions/ceremonies and because having to look out the window at tomb stones everyday would make me upset.
 
I have lived just across the road from a cemetery. Didn't bother me at all...actually, it's some of the quietest neighbours I've ever had... :D

And back when we we're kids, we used to hang out on a cemetery some of the time. One of our favourite game was playing hide and seek on the cemetery after it got dark. With all those tombstones, statues and bushes it was ideal for hiding, often in "plain sight".

I remember once when we played hide and seek, I was lying on top of a grave stone and right beside me one of the others were standing perfectly still on top of a tombstone, arms stretched out to the sides, head slightly tilted and the one doing the searching actually past him close enough to reach out and touch him 3 or 4 times. I was found because I couldn't control my giggling.
 
Definitely would, especially in the city. Large open area that will never have any buildings on it next to my dwelling, yes please.
 
An old cemetery is located just a little over 100 feet from where I live where casualties from the America Civil War (1861-65) are buried. My grandfather bought three lots near the cemetery in the early 1900s on which he soon built a home. Not long afterwards, the owner of the cemetery property removed the tombstones and sold the land to a young couple who built a home on a old graveyard lot. In the 1920s, my grandfather began digging through old military records to find out where his uncles (both Union soldiers killed during the Civil War) had been buried. To his amazement, he discovered his uncles had been buried in the old cemetery just beside his property, a location just a few hundred feet from where they'd been cut down by Confederate snipers in 1863.

Today, the town's mayor lives in the house that was built over the old cemetery. He and his family have no clue that his house was built over a graveyard.

So, who knows? A good many people could be living very near or even directly over an old graveyard, long since forgotten...

Muahahaha!
 
I live near 2. One at the church at the bottom of the road and another just a stones throw from that. But they're both very old places and no new burials take place there. Infact the oldest has signs up warning people not to enter since some graves might cave in :eek:.
I can see another from my bedroom window too but its about 2 miles away.
 
Only if it's in a large dilapidated Victorian mansion that's drafty, has flickering lights and has many creeking joints so that you constantly wonder if you are not alone.

One thing I always wonder with ghost hunting shows. Is how come ghosts are always in large wealthy houses or hotels? Why not some white trash trailer in a trailer park? Are they finicky? Or do only wealthy people, sometimes guests or servants, become ghosts?:rolleyes:

Honestly though. If it's cheaper and the house is nice I would live there.
 
MacMini2009 said:
Would you live near a cemetery? In a month, I am going to move to a house near a cemetery and I want your opinions. I don't know if I should feel scared or what. Would you be scared? Do you even care if there is a cemetery? Thanks in advance.
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Why should you be scared? They are dead after all.

It's the living that should scare you :).
 
Dead neighbours are quiet.

My old house was one of the ones right on the border of this cemetery. Never bothered me in the slightest, Huge open quiet area in the middle of the ciry, perfect.
I was far more concerned about the downstairs neighbour who smoked so much pot my wife, I and presumably my 6 month old son got headaches from it.
 
Yeah. Cemeteries wouldn't be a problem at all. I'd draw the line at living next to a crematorium though. I'd have to hoover twice a day just to stop worrying I was sitting on peoples' particles.
 
If it was an amazing house, I would live next to it. I wouldn't go out of my way to live near one, though.
 
I rented a place next door to a cemetary for a couple of years. It was a really nice view across all the tombstones and trees. Much better than other houses. It was also a nice place to go and read a book in the sun on one of their benches as it was relatively quiet. The only thing I didn't really do is wander around alone there at night.
 
I'm not scared of cemeteries, but I still wouldn't want to live next to one. As has already been mentioned, depending on the age of the cemetery there could be annoying traffic about with the new burials.

The second reason is simply that I don't particularly care for cemeteries. I'm not one for going to the grave sites of my loved ones to mourn or find inner peace. It is my belief that the cemetery is not our final resting place, so it has no real meaning to me.

Although on the flip side it could potentially keep out unwanted visitors that would be creeped out by it. ;)
 
Meh, Dead bodies decomposing in the ground. Im a man of faith but, I dont get the sacred nature of dead bodies. After the soul is gone theyre a bunch of atoms really. No active mind or thought processes just... dust.

Sorry... deep moment. ;)

But I wouldnt walk around in the night, just a fear of the dark I developed after being attacked by a possum in a tent. In hospital for 3 days for something that wouldve taken half an hour. Please dont ask.
 
I would!

I love their creepy nature. This will sound morbid but I do a lot of photography in cemeteries (old abandoned creepy ones that are way up in the mountains).

I did almost get attacked in a cemetery once. I was by myself in a cemetery taking photos around 2am making "ghosts" for a college art project. The cemetery was about a 30 minute drive from any other building/anything. You had to drive 20 minutes through these old overgrown paths in the woods just to get to it. Well, I had my tripod set up and was taking long exposure shots when I heard footsteps walking. I paused, I was a little creeped but then the footsteps turned to running. I coudn't see anyone I just heard them so I grabbed my camera and hopped in my vehicle and drove away, then I came back 15 min later and my tripod was gone : / I think someone else was in the cemetery trying to rob me (why I'll never know nothing is even around this place!)

But aside from that tangent it wouldn't bother me, unless I was staring out my bedroom window one night at the cemetery only to find something staring back at me...then I'd move :D
 
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