In the village of Săpânţ (Maramureş county), there is a “Merry Cemetery” (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel). All the gravestones are colored blue and on the gravestones written a funny summary of the life of the person buried there along with a craved picture that illustrate the character of the person. If the person died in a tragic death, at the back of the gravestone will also have a summary of how they die with a funny twist. I quite like the idea.
(the happy cemetery - funny stories are written on graves to commemorate the departed)
Here is a sample of what’s on the gravestone:
"Here I rest.
Manaila Ion Mahumesc is my name and I have been the boy of Nani. There are few
people like me. I was a nice guy and handsome. But I have not been lucky
because I died as a young guy and my body is now destroyed in the earth. Dear
mother and wife, God should take care of you and my children, because I loved
all of you very much. And I wait that we will meet again."
End of a life should be celebrated. It should be the life of the person and what they did or achieved we shall remember. Death is a normal stage of life. If a person spent a colorful and well lived life, their departure should be celebrated in a happy note.
For more translation of the gravestone, visit to this page http://papillontravels.net/sapantaindex.htm
