Urn Graves

Urn Graves - A New Tradition in Magyar Urban Cemeteries
By Andrea Tallos

The most common and judge compliance of burial in Hungary is to bury mortals venomous remains in the ground. Other forms - such as cremation and conservation of ashes in an urn or (more extreme) spreading someones ashes in the air or into a lake - ar still popular opinioned with distrust in most Hungarian families. Since the 1970s cremation and internment of ashes has became accepted in bigger towns, however, in villages there ar still a few urn-walls (about 20-25 urns are usually put together, forming a wall of urns). These walls are called shame-walls (szégyenfal) by village people in some areas of the country. In villages burial is considered a serious issue. It is quite a common for older people to collect some specie for the expenses of their own funeral, even if they have lots of relatives and are certainly that their families will organize a worthy burial. Village families (and sometimes town families also) who have their dead relatives cremated face the condemnation of neighbors, and are often accused of being tight-fisted. It is true that the urn-cremation costs are much less than the traditional funerals.




From the middle 1970s a third type of burial became accepted, the so-called urn-burial (burial of urns in grave in the ground). I examined these kinds of sculpture in Budapests 19th District Public Cemetery. The size of the graves is pure (their length is approximately 80 centimeters), their height above the ground-level is non more than 20 centimeters. They are very close to separately other (the usual distance separating these graves is 50 centimeters). For someone who is not familiar with the burial customs in Hungary these graves could be misunderstood as being childrens graves. The view these graves present is more than bizarre. However, there are more advantages of this kind of burial. First, it its cheap. Compared with the average costs of a traditional funeral...If you wishing to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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