heh, if your grandma can be said to live in a single house, mine is 'housed' in a high-rise apartment, which makes life for us still-livings quite a bit easier when we go visit and such.
In taiwan the 'home for the dead' industry is quite prosperous, up on top of Jinbaoshan is one such facility, which has everything from traditional horseshoe/armchair shaped ones, to the towers that houses hundreds at a time, to entire vaults that you can purchase for your entire family (so you stay united in life and in death). And accomodations for the living include a vending area/restaurant, a church next to a mosque next to a buddhist/taoist hybrid temple... The Taiwanese had, IMHO, made visiting ancestors a high art.
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Date: 2006-12-30 10:42 pm (UTC)In taiwan the 'home for the dead' industry is quite prosperous, up on top of Jinbaoshan is one such facility, which has everything from traditional horseshoe/armchair shaped ones, to the towers that houses hundreds at a time, to entire vaults that you can purchase for your entire family (so you stay united in life and in death). And accomodations for the living include a vending area/restaurant, a church next to a mosque next to a buddhist/taoist hybrid temple... The Taiwanese had, IMHO, made visiting ancestors a high art.