Is there a cemetery in Duskvol? After ‘cremation’ where do the mourners inter their lost ones?

Is there a cemetery in Duskvol? After ‘cremation’ where do the mourners inter their lost ones?

Is there a cemetery in Duskvol? After ‘cremation’ where do the mourners inter their lost ones?

8 thoughts on “Is there a cemetery in Duskvol? After ‘cremation’ where do the mourners inter their lost ones?”

  1. The book doesn’t say, but my thoughts when I’ve thought about it: Given the extreme difficulty (if not impossibility) of expansion that it seems like Duskvol must face, it seems more likely that if they did such things, they’d build something like a tower to house the remains. The lightning barriers have only been around for around 300 years at this point, so it seems like this might be feasible to do without overflow.

    It’s also possible that the idea of wasting real estate on the dead would be long abandoned, and household memorials or various forms of memento would be more common. Especially once their spirits are destroyed, the idea that funerary practices involve doing anything for the sake of the dead might quickly fade. This is the one I personally go with.

  2. Also, after cremation there seems less of a need to inter – take home the remains in a jar if you want, have them scattered across the seas, etc. But I kind of agree with Alice’s take and say there probably would not be much of such a tradition?

  3. I think this is where the Church of the Ecstasy of the Flesh comes in. Because your spirit is destroyed, you can only “live on” through your memorials. So there will be plaques up on the things that people built or paid for in their life. I also expect that names will be passed on in families, with people raised on stories of what their ancestors achieved, and expected to live up to it.

  4. I imagine more plaques than jars. In my mind cremation by electroplasm doesn’t leave ashes. I also think that wealthy folks probably have a room that is equivalent of the family crypt that holds the plaques, but poorer folk maybe have a public building, a tower, or subterranean holding space where you can go to pat respects to dead loved ones.

  5. Sean Sullivan I was thinking public plaques as well. “Harriett Jones paid for this bench”, “Joe Bloggs served faithfully in this soup kitchen for 15 years.” Rich people get buildings or streets named after them, and statutes rather than plaques.

    But yes, a private space for revering ancestors is good. Perhaps homes have a small nook filled with mementos of ancestors?

  6. Remembering the dead is vile and evil in the eyes of the Church of the Ecstasy of the Flesh. Once your done mourning stop thinking about grandma, otherwise your gonna get eaten by ghosts. Focus on the now and the still living, for the spiritual is evil.

    Remembering the dead is one of those blasphemes that practically everyone does does go away, kind of like how people still drank during the Prohibition. Also sense the official state religion doesn’t offer much in the way of help in these matters, it makes the weird cults and spiritual practices at the same time worse for everyone and more profitable.

  7. There are photographers who specialize in postmortem family portraits which can be taken quickly after death, before they become spirits. While popular in Duskvol, they were a real historical trend as well. Also, plaster face casts – death masks – were popular prior to the invention of photography.

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