Merry Cemetery

It is a graveyard in the village of Săpânţa in Maramureş, Romania. The difference in this graveyard is that the death stories are usually depicted comedically and in graphic form on the tombstones. In this way the meaning of death is changing at the cultural level and the cemetery is becoming a celebration area.

This is from one of the story on one tombstone: “I made many rugs
Which I sold to tourists
But I did not grow too old
For a disease struck me
Separating me from my loved ones
I would have wanted to live longer
To look after my grandchildren
And my old mother ’cause she
Was always there for me
But I left this world at 59”