Lovers ♡

Trigger warning for images of skeletons, decomposing bodies, etc.

Let's get straight to the point. Imagine yourself dead and just lying beneath the ground for a thousand years or so in peace with your loved one and then suddenly someone breaks into your grave and puts your rotting bodies on display for millions. I think the dead deserve respect and whether you're an atheist or not, I think we can agree. (Maybe not, but if so, perhaps you would be iterested in the links to other opinions on this.) I think it's okay to take pictures and study them for science, but to put them on display in museums is just...

Links:

The Posthole

Research

The one that reflects my view the most

When I visit a museum in the future, I would leave them a flower, at the very least. (It doesn't make much of a difference to be honest, but it just makes me feel better about seeing them like that.)

Today I have decided to post pictures about couples entombed together because I can, I guess. Though, I would not like to be buried with anyone, I sort of find it romantic that you would want to be together with someone, even in death, as if your lifetime would never be enough to express your love. (It's not my matter to contemplate, but I can't help but wonder about their lives and deaths. Were they only together in death, or in both? Did they die at the same time or separately? Did they choose to be buried this way or did someone else do it for them because it's "what they would have wanted"?)

So how do I feel about making this post? Complicated. The image below describes my face quite well. I linked the titles with wikipedia pages (most of them at least) so you can read about them if you like. Most of them are like, not even a half page long.

Lovers of Modena:

Lovers of Cluj-Napoca:

Lovers of Valdaro:

Embracing Skeletons of Alepotrypa:

Hasanlu Lovers:

Lovers of Teruel:

The Lovers of Pompeii:

I don't have much to say for this post, it sort of makes me sad honestly. Love hurts, always, even if it's not unrequited and it's a healthy relationship. I am no poet, and I am no wise person in the ways of love, but who can deny the mysterious power it hold over us? Sometimes, if we're lucky, we end up liking someone so much that our chest tightens and we can even feel the ache in our hearts. (It's almost as if our heart is overflowing with love.)

Man, that was cringy. Thank goodness I will never experience anything like this.

-Lemon Farmer

(Tragic Lemons)

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