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Normally peaceful quiet place is a cemetery, with interesting headstone designs, partial stories of those now long gone.

the headstones lasting longer than the incumbent ever did

Too much expense and emphasis placed on the dead, hope they were treated well when living....

One never sees a pretentious monument to poor people.

None whatsoever, more often than not our graveyards are not clean and tidy, vandals smash headstones, matters not who you are.

That is bad, mindless vandalism

Leave it at mindless....