#MEMORIALS

[honourablejester]

Oh, I didn’t know that.

I was listening to Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” on youtube, and browsing the comments several people mentioned …

Okay. The song is about the real sinking of the freighter the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in 1975. And there’s a line in the song:

“In the Maritime Sailor’s Cathedral,

The Church Bell chimed till it rang twenty nine times,

For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald”

Which references something that the actual Maritime Church in Detroit did in honour of the ship’s crew. And I just found out in those youtube comments for his song that when Gordon Lightfoot died in May last year (2023), the Maritime Church rang those bells again, this time 30 times. Once for every man on the Edmund Fitzgerald, and once more for Gordon Lightfoot.

That’s … That is a memorial I would be proud to have earned. And proud to give. I do like that. A lot.

Apparently, the Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior also lit its beacon in honour of him.

Sorry. I’m having … extremely maritime sort of feelings over here. Songs and memorials, bells and beacons, and the ways we carry memory forward. That’s … that’s a good memorial. I like that.

[srldesigns6277]

Liam Payne memorial in Paris. ❤️🕊

[scooby-doo-exploration]

1937, Mount Rushmore, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA - sculpted by Gutzon Borgluma

[pulvisarturns]

Custom Decorated Memorials. A Fine Way To Honor Your Pet. Pulvis Art Urns

[justjudethoughts]

Found a perfect curly lock of hair in between the pages of a century-old book and now I don't know how to function because someone loved someone else enough to preserve even the tiniest piece of them, and now I am in possession of a stranger's memory, probably years and years after they passed away. Who were they? Were they a lover, or a brother, or a child? It's quite fine hair, I wonder if maybe it was a little kid's? Was it preserved because of death, or just as a memento, or maybe a goodbye present?

[madgastronomer]

Additions to my Litany for the Many Dead*, inspired by Peter Morwood:

We pray to the Writing Dead Who left us words to stir the heart and mind Ink or pixels, free or paid, read or unread Your work has worth and meaning We pray to the Writing Dead

We pray to the Flying Dead You who found freedom in the skies Who journeyed on the winds May your hearts and souls take flight again We pray to the Flying Dead

*You can download a free PDF or EPUB here (feel free to spread it around, it's Creative Commons licensed), or buy a dead tree edition here. A Litany for the Many Dead is a set of verses to commemorate different groups of the Dead, depending on who they were, what they did, how they died, and more. If you get interested in it, and you have an idea for a new verse, I am always accepting suggestions (preferably via ask or DM, or you can email me at madgastronomer@gmail.com), and am working on a third edition currently.

[aginggravestones]

Henry & Lucinda Grafton Barnard, 2004 & 2025

[possumcollege]

Should anyone need to memorialize me, please do it like this, with a massive slab of solid aluminum bearing a donkey, ridden by an armed skeleton in a fancy hat. May it display something like the anti-littering plea from the Whataburger packaging, and the word "jokes" in a spot that makes it very inconvenient to read.

[homeofhousechickens]

I really miss Twinkle today. Most of yall probably don't remember him, I lost him in 2020

He was just so big and cuddly, he was bright white and so clean all the time. He was really sweet with little hens and young cockerels. I used to think he choked or something but since both his sons also had issues I think it was just something related to his own genetics and stuff. Silkies are just really fragile due to their vaulted skull as well and I had an aggressive large fowl hen at the time so I think that might have contributed. I don't think it was his breeders fault and he offered to replace him for free but who could replace my Twinkle?

[gregdotorg]

Laramie, Wyoming would like to forget Matthew Shepard and his murder there, thank you very much.

[kodachrome-net]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1999

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Prompted by this post about The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald and Gordon Lightfoot

There are singers that we love as we sing our lives away And though we all fall silent in the end, They will sing with us forever they’ll be singing every day When we sing the songs they sang.

Chorus: For the song goes on in the songs we sing, And when one song ends then another song begins, So the singers who are gone will be singing once again When we sing the songs they sang.

Some are heard by many and some are heard by few, And though we all fall silent in the end, Someone will remember both the song you sing and you, When they sing the songs you sang.

(Chorus)

Refrain: Sing the chorus, sing the song, And the singers gone before us will be singing right along. Sing the chorus and refrain, And the singers gone before us will be singing once again.

We can drive away the silence of the grave that we all fear, And though we all fall silent in the end, Sing and you’ll be singing with the singers you hold dear When you sing the songs they sang.

(Chorus)

So if you sing along you bring along the singers who are gone Though we all fall silent in the end. Sing and you’ll be singing both the singer and the song When you sing the songs they sang.

[srldesigns6277]

Liam Payne Memorial in Barcelona 🕊❤️

[coldlaugh]

[wikipediapictures]

River View Cemetery (Aurora, Indiana)

“Graves in a section of River View Cemetery, located at 3635 E. Laughery Creek Road south of Aurora in Center Township, Dearborn County, Indiana, United States. The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.” - via Wikimedia Commons