Why do people put up crosses/memorials all over the roads?

[mrrman]

This is more of a comment not a rant. I dont see why people do this. Who wants to go to a pole/intersection to view a memorial. Isnt that what a church/cemetary is for. I just dont see what people get out of this, not closure I assume. Usually road workers tear these memorials down. This is just a comment only. No disrespect.

 

[FoBoT]

yeah, they don't do this where i grew up (washington state)
they are all over the south and also here in missouri

i think it is odd

 

[lokiju]

There's a wall along the road that apparently some people crashed into and died near where I live and people keep spray painting it with things like RIP, We Miss you, etc...

The city let it stand for a few months after the accident to allow healing and then painted back over it and sure enough it was spray painted shortly after, this has been happening for a few years now and every time the city paints it over, sure enough someone comes along and spray paints it.

I can't help but think that if the person they're mourning was aware of this that they'd not approve, at least I know I wouldn't.

Seems kind of disrespectful to keep "tagging" it.

 

[JRich]

There's one on a street corner near my apartment that's been up for over 3 years now. I wish the city would blow it up. It's an eyesore.

 

[aphex]

Near my parents house, these people not only put up a 2 foot high cross, but also made a small "gravesite" fenced off (about 3 feet long, 1.5 feet wide with a small plaque) and they put flowers in it every 2 weeks or so....

Its depressing to see a gravesite everyday, basically 200 feet from your doorstep.

 

[Udel]

Distracting and ought to be removed IMHO.

 

[WiseOldDude]

There loved one ain't there, and why would you want to mark the place where they died a horrible death.

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: WiseOldDude
There loved one ain't there, and why would you want to mark the place where they died a horrible death.

a reminder to others at that area what can happen if you're not paying attention

 

[AU Tiger]

Started in the Southwest and has spread.

USA Today story

 

[RCN]

Originally posted by: daveymark

Originally posted by: WiseOldDude
There loved one ain't there, and why would you want to mark the place where they died a horrible death.

a reminder to others at that area what can happen if you're not paying attention

 

[evilmantis]

Originally posted by: daveymark


a reminder to others at that area what can happen if you're not paying attention

QFT

There is a memorial up where my stepfather was killed by a drunk who ran a stop sign at an intersection with a highway (little brother also severely injured, but he made it). Our family doesn't go out there and leave things, but the family of a the girl who died in the drunk's truck does. Ours is looking to memorialize in other ways, for instance by having a paver engraved at the children's garden where he installed several amazing paver patios (a butterfly and a spiraling "yellow brick road") and by having some trees planted since he was very much an environmental sort of guy.