The people of 2200-year-old Ashkelon in Israel, for example, buried more than 1000 dogs in a prehistoric pet cemetery, placing each animal in a separate grave and curling its tail towards its feet.
But I feel the need to earn my repast by spending the morning of Memorial Day in our congregational cemetery, placing flags on the graves of deceased veterans.
Of course, Halloween was born of this holy celebration, but in Catholic countries such as Italy, tradition still holds and on All Souls' Day Italians, arms heavy with chrysanthemums, visit cemeteries, placing the flowers on the graves of loved ones and celebrate accordingly.
And while the government-issued marker was free, someone had to pay the cemetery $450 to place a foundation on which to mount it.
Theirs was the last house on the trail to the cemetery, the place where Muslim mourners stopped for a final prayer and bouts of wailing.
On adjacent land is an ancient cemetery, a place where St. Colman was buried nearly 1,400 years ago, where Celtic crosses angle awkwardly toward the sky.
The last burial in the Marble Cemetery took place in 1937, although current owners can choose to be buried in the vaults.
On his release, by the good offices of the government of Chile, his first action was to go to the cemetery to place flowers on the grave.In 1993 he was permitted to leave for Miami.
Other points of interest are the old Protestant cemetery (burial place of the 18th-century English novelist Tobias Smollett) and the two villas where the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron stayed in 1819 and 1822, respectively.
Just behind the Barracks is Arbour Hill Cemetery, resting place of the leaders of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising, which also has a wall commemorating John F Kennedy's visit during his 1963 trip to Ireland.
