Roadside memorials

[KGBeast]

I was contemplating roadside memorials the other day. When somebody dies of a heart attack in the Main Street or from an aneurysm in the pool nobody feels the need to set up a shrine for them, so why is it different for car accidents? I imagine it has something to do with the suddenness and pointlessness of the tragedy but sudden death can occur in many ways. Why is it that people mark the sites of car accidents?

 

[Richard Pryor]

Maybe because it's not really being used for anything else? I've seen memorials at swimming holes/waterfalls as well, so I'd guess it's just that it isn't practical to erect a shrine in most of the places where people die.

 

[KGBeast]

I guess it's impossible to explain unless you're directly affected, the need to erect a memorial. I can see the reason for those whose remains are lost, they have no grave and therefore no place to mourn but these have always intrigued me.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Very good question OP. One for the "stuff in life you've always wondered / never understood" threads.

On a side note, for some reason I read the OP as if Louis CK was saying it, and found myself laughing.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I quite often see them and think to myself, 'how the **** did they manage to crash and kill themselves in that particular spot?'

I also think it ironic that some will have cans or bottles of booze at them, when it's probably booze in quite a few cases that contributed to them killing themselves and others.

 

[peternorth]

I quite often see them and think to myself, 'how the **** did they manage to crash and kill themselves in that particular spot?'

I also think it ironic that some will have cans or bottles of booze at them, when it's probably booze in quite a few cases that contributed to them killing themselves and others.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/si...le-sent-to-trial/story-e6frf7jo-1225809460729

im pretty sire it was this tragedy that saw a RSM erected with jim beam cans/bottles placed lovingly down. no one cared about the poor tree however, disgraceful

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/si...le-sent-to-trial/story-e6frf7jo-1225809460729

im pretty sire it was this tragedy that saw a RSM erected with jim beam cans/bottles placed lovingly down. no one cared about the poor tree however, disgraceful

The only tree I can see in this thread belongs to Peter North,

 

[Deliverance]

I prefer that over morons posting their babies 6 month birthday on Facebook.

 

[JuddsABlue]

Id say 99% of memorial sites with alcohol on them are young people, and its just their way 'participating' with the dead one last time. The whole "he loved jimmies so ill put some jimmies here for him so he can have a can in heaven!"

just stupid stuff like that, but thats how people grieve

 

[JUBJUB]

I was contemplating roadside memorials the other day. When somebody dies of a heart attack in the Main Street or from an aneurysm in the pool nobody feels the need to set up a shrine for them, so why is it different for car accidents? I imagine it has something to do with the suddenness and pointlessness of the tragedy but sudden death can occur in many ways. Why is it that people mark the sites of car accidents?

Have you started this thread over this story ?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...butes-to-victims/story-fni0fit3-1227233921056

I agree with Vic Roads that some are just over the top to the point of distracting

 

[thurmanmunson]

Id say 99% of memorial sites with alcohol on them are young people, and its just their way 'participating' with the dead one last time. The whole "he loved jimmies so ill put some jimmies here for him so he can have a can in heaven!"

just stupid stuff like that, but thats how people grieve

Similar to how Dimebag was buried with his guitar (and Eddie Van Halen's). A symbolic gesture or last parting gift before the big trip upstairs.

 

[Deliverance]

I prefer that over morons posting their babies 6 month birthday on Facebook.

In fact even more annoying than that is the knobs who wish the 6mth old a happy birthday.

 

[Deliverance]

In fact even more annoying than that is the knobs who wish the 6mth old a happy birthday.

Quoting myself, someone shoot me.......or beatify me or something.

 

[Gasometer]

There's equally distracting stuff on our roads.

As a matter of fact the signage on City Link at the South Bank end of Melbourne is a distraction in the sense of making sure to get into the correct lane...yeh its not that hard, but ask people who rarely use it and its a shambles.

 

[Gough]

Post Diana, mourning 2.0. LOOK HOW SAD I AM!!!!

 

[peternorth]

Id say 99% of memorial sites with alcohol on them are young people, and its just their way 'participating' with the dead one last time. The whole "he loved jimmies so ill put some jimmies here for him so he can have a can in heaven!"

just stupid stuff like that, but thats how people grieve

some indulge in grief pr0n with over the top public displays.

i concur that people grieve in different ways. some people shoot animals on safari for example

 

[Cmarsh]

some indulge in grief pr0n with over the top public displays.

i concur that people grieve in different ways. some people shoot animals on safari for example

What the hell is grief pr0n?

 

[little graham]

just stupid stuff like that, but thats how people grieve

Its how people connect these days, they need grog or drugs.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

What the hell is grief pr0n?

People taking some sort of perverse pleasure in showing the world how terribly affected they are by some tragedy, usually one which has no direct personal effect on them.

 

[tandino]

Have you started this thread over this story ?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...butes-to-victims/story-fni0fit3-1227233921056

I agree with Vic Roads that some are just over the top to the point of distracting

Not as distracting as some stupid woman and her camera crew walking down the side of the freeway, which I saw on the news tonight in regards to this story.

 

[PaddyO]

They should be blanket banned.

Of course all the bogans will be faux outraged at the "government taking away their right to grieve how they want", but...

- It's ****ing stupid and dangerous having people on busy roadsides erecting shrines.

- It's potentially dangerous when drivers try to look at them at 110kmh.

- It's entirely unnecessary. That's what gravesites are for.

 

[BotsMaster]

Some you see on tight bends with trees and you think they must have lost control of their car and crashed into a tree. Others you see on very flat ground with not a tree in sight and all you can think is "how'd they die there?".

 

[JUBJUB]

Not as distracting as some stupid woman and her camera crew walking down the side of the freeway, which I saw on the news tonight in regards to this story.

Saw that on the news.It was at the Lara crash scene that killed 5 people when some drunk stoned out bitch drove down the freeway on the wrong side and killed 4 people in a car coming the other way.
That roadside memorial is fine.It has the simple 4 crosses and flowers on the crosses.

 

[Papa G]

Things bogans do.

Grief is done very very badly these days. I'm not religious, but perhaps the lack of religion these days which once put a bit of a frame work and process around death and how it is handled might have something to do with it.

 

[Feerits Elf]

Some you see on tight bends with trees and you think they must have lost control of their car and crashed into a tree. Others you see on very flat ground with not a tree in sight and all you can think is "how'd they die there?".

Pedestrian?