Wierd Cemetery Restaurant

[disney_or_bust]

I had to post this, it is truely bizzare. Article below:

Krishan Kutti Nair has helped run the restaurant built over a centuries-old Muslim cemetery for close to four decades, but he doesn't know who is buried in the cafe floor. Customers seem to like the graves, which resemble small cement coffins, and that's enough for him.
Read more http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=79371

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

While I can understand why they built it where they did after reading the article, it is still very disrespectful IMO. Maybe this is a function of differing cultural mores, but if somebody did that around one of my relatives' graves I would be very upset.

 

[binny]

no thanks. Not at all for me. There is no reason enough for that.

 

[HunnyPots]

During Victorian times it was fashionable to picnic in cemeteries. Not too much difference I guess.

 

[disney_or_bust]

Yes I felt it was very disrespectful as well, but I guess we haven't had to face a land shortage like they have. You surely can not dig up graves, so I suppose working around them is a better option...

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

During Victorian times it was fashionable to picnic in cemeteries. Not too much difference I guess.

It was also fashionable in the Victorian Era to get ancient mummies from Egypt and unwrap them at parties. I think a picnic in a cemetary is not as disrespectful as taking a body from its tomb and unwrapping it. Then again they used to grind up the mummies and use them for "medicine" it was called Mummia! EWW. I do not think a sedate picnic in a cemetary is all that bad. Most cemetaries are beautiful and I think that the "residents" might enjoy watching those celebrating life.

 

[EMom]

A friend once took her husband, along with DH and me to a new restaurant that was in what looked to have once been an old house. The food was good and the place was crowded. She whispered something to me about how her DH would have never set foot in the place if she'd told him the history first. I asked, "What do you mean?"

Turns out, it had been an old home all right. An old FUNERAL HOME!!!!! Dead people give me the willies and a place that's had masses of dead people in it is a million times worse. I think her DH saw the look on my face and he kept pestering to know what was up. As soon as he figured it out, he paid the bill ASAP and hauled butt out of there, never to return. It's not as if I wanted to make a second visit. I have no idea if it stayed in business or not.

 

[Master Gracy]

Seeing as I only recently saw poltergeist,
I can imagine shooting coffins coming out of the floor in the place.

Hopefully, no tv's and small children are in there :O

 

[ilisao]

Actually, it doesn't bother me. It would be more of an issue if people were, say, using the graves as benches. I actually like the fact that people are comfortable there.

 

[Master Gracy]

Actually, it doesn't bother me. It would be more of an issue if people were, say, using the graves as benches. I actually like the fact that people are comfortable there.

they used to have a club in monmartre, where the tables in the bar were coffins

now if they were real I dunno

 

[freckles and boo]

Actually, it doesn't bother me. It would be more of an issue if people were, say, using the graves as benches. I actually like the fact that people are comfortable there.

I agree. It doesn't look as if the graves are being disrespected. Besides, just because we interpret death (and the rituals associated with death) a certain way doesn't mean it is the only way. I don't get the "spookiness" that other people seem to get about death.

 

[Heidict]

I don't know if I could enjoy lunch while staring at the coffins of strangers. A cemetary is one thing, after all they are all under ground and you don't see the coffins. This though......no, I don't think so.

 

[agnes!]

Well, I think for this to happen to a cemetery in the U.S. (unless you had an unscrupulous developer ), the developer would have to make a good faith effort to contact *every* single descendant of the dead who are buried in the cemetery. The plots are actually owned by the heirs. The cemetery might be managed by a church or a cemetery association, etc., but that business entity does not own the individual graves themselves.

agnes!

 

[Mickey&Donald]

I really don't see the problem here. The American view of death, cemetaries, etc. is not the same as other parts of the world.

I think it's nice that the restaurant owner lays a flower on each grave every morning. I simply don't see any disrespect going on.