Poppysmimi
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As a lot of you know, I lost my baby boy at 6 months old following a congenital heart defect. Just recently, a grave for an “aspiring rapper” who was a teenage boy is now in the same cemetery. He was sadly stabbed to death during a “gang war” and tragically lost his life.I honestly think the thick that's done realise what resting place means. On a more serious note though surely this taking toys to the grave and reading to a dead child is not normal?
Because of his age (15), his grave is close to the babies graves.
Teenagers congregate day and night. His grave is covered in beer bottles (knives have even been left!!) I was there this week tidying up my babies grave and adding a small Christmas wreath with my
Other children. We had to endure loud music, them jumping over memorial benches, drinking, leaving McDonald’s wrappers on the floor and singing loudly to “Mans not Hot” whilst they filmed for Instagram.
We normally stay an hour. My other kids help tidy the grave and sometimes, my middle one will read a book to her brother (she’s learning to read). We walk through the cemetery picking up flowers/ornaments that have fallen over in the wind and putting them back. It’s quiet, my children are all together and for that one hour each week, my heart stops aching as much as normal. The thought of my son, laying at rest in the ground with all that above his head when I’m not there has destroyed me. My
mental health has taken a massive decline this week.
I’m not one to tell people how to grieve but cemeteries ARE not the place for all this noise and disrespect. Have a party elsewhere and think of those who are barely holding their lives together whilst trying to reflect somewhere which should be peaceful.