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Love the trees behind the Three Stones????

You know, it makes me wonder if these paitents were given a proper burial or just simply thrown in the ground. Motts would you know?

All residential facilities have/had an association with clerical staff for weekly religious services and for funerals. Where I work we have a lovely cemetery that is used for people without known relatives or whose families were so happy with their care that they wanted them to be buried where they lived. Like all facilities at one time, numbers were used on markers for a short period (although there are names on the markers now instead - found in old records) and the cemetery was not always as well tended as now (due to financial costs - the small amounts of monies received from funding sources were used on the living), but over the past several decades almost all facilities have improved their cemeteries and have tried to go through what records still exist to find out who was buried where.

Although many people are unhappy about "inadequate burial practices" for people who live/lived in residential facilities, it is rare that people follow through to ask the government or state to research a facility's records to find out who was buried and exactly where, and even less likely that people will then pay out of pocket to assure that new markers are placed and names accorded. Funeral services, burials, cremation, and memorial markers are quite expensive. In truth, people who live in the community don't always get headstones, whether or not they have disabilities of any sort.

Lynn,

Very good point about the high costs that come with any funeral and or grave stone.
My 19-year-old sister died very very unexpectedly in July '07 and her funeral service was several thousand dollars. My folks are only just now able to order her grave stone nearly half a year later and this too is very expensive. And these are, for lack of a better word, normal people in the way that they live in the community and both my folks have good jobs as an RN for a number of doctor offices my mom and a finance annelist for a well known aircraft factory, my dad. Despite this, I'm very very sure having to come up with thousands of dollars to see my sister decently into the ground put quite a crunch on their wallets nevermind the soul crushing loss of their youngest at such an early age... So it shouldn't really be a shock to see how the state, it doesn't matter what state, they all are quite underfunded when it comes to the support and care of their dependent wards, inmates in the state pen, unemployed people, low-income families, and the disabled/mentally ill just to name a few. Treats those who have died while within the walls of state run places such as this.

3 ghosts

This one is very captivating.

Look at that stone and tell me you guys don't see a laughing skull.

geezus, how appropriate

Chills. Just, chills.

Lynne
This is SO true... the grandmother of a friend of mine in NYC was buried in an unmarked grave( and this was the 1980's!!) . Her family was poor, so they just purchased space in someone else's plot.
On a personal note, my own great great grandmother was buried in a "potter's field" somewhere in NY state in 1909. My grandmother's family was dreadfully dirt-poor( her father was an abusive alcoholic who squandered his salary on the "creature') and when my g-grandmother died of typhoid , there was no money to bury her. Though my grandmother was only 9 @ the time, she remembers being taken to the funeral in a "surrey with the fringe on top" but the funeral itself taking place in a bleak field sans headstones or markers.
Unfortunately, the location of my g-grandma's grave has never been found.
In later years, my grandfather, who worked for the NY court system and had access to tons of records, tried in vain to find the location through burial records for the year 1909.
Unfortunately my grandmother herself died in 1995, before the largest advent of the internet, but I intend to keep searching for her mam's grave

On an aside Lynne, THANK you for what you do, from someone who suffers from a mental illness...

I will in all likelehood be in a poor grave myself.
I think that when I die, my body is just fertterlizer, to re-plentish mother earth for other life to grow!