Leaving flowers for dead people actually makes no sense at all. I’m not saying we should start leaving soda cans and gum wrappers around The Nana’s final resting place, however, if flowers have no useful purpose for living people (except to make people “feel good”—which really just means they get to show off), then dead people really, really can’t do anything with them.
Let’s just admit it: flowers make us, the living people, feel better. The Dead Nana has better things to do than look at flowers on her grave and compare “her” flowers to the lack of flowers on all the graves of all the total strangers around her. [ . . . ] Continue »
