Find A Grave

Now you can see the tombstones and gravesites of the famous and not-so-famous, at Find-A-Grave.com. It’s a very interesting site to browse through and see the rather opulent graves of some people, to the rather plain graves of others. I find it rather startling to see people who accomplished a lot in their life with rather plain graves. For example, the grave of Benjamin Franklin seems rather dull and ordinary. Adrian Joss, who may have pitched the greatest baseball game in history under pressure of a pennant race, spends eternity in a grave site that would not attract any attention, you’d never know someone famous was buried there. However, Alexandre Alekhine, former World Chess Champion, has a rather opulent tomstone that shouts “Come and admire me”. Kings and queens, nobles and commoners, we all will need a grave at some point, and you can see how different people chose to spend eternity. It says a lot about the individual who is buried there.