Significance Of Headstones

By Author: Gurudeep
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Do you ever wonder what is written on the headstones of eminent personalities like more recently of Steve Jobs, who transformed the history of Apple Inc.? These thoughts always leave me perplexed and wondering what will my headstone look like, what will my children love to write on that? This is a very uncanny feeling, but the sooner we accept it the better. The only truth of our life is death…..so why not do something that with bronze grave markers incredible and unbelievable moments of our life are encrypted on them.

From heaven when Albert Eistein, Picasso, Mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln or Mather Luther King would look down on their headstones, then probably a sense of pride will engulf them. From their heavenly abode they would realize what they have done for the mankind. Their work is still remembered and is written with indelible grave markers.

What are these headstones?
In the pensive mood, I ponder over the thought ‘what are headstones, are they story tellers of our past generation’. In a way yes, they are the story tellers, it is through the etched out grave markers that today we know the ...
... life form of millions of years ago.
Egyptians and the Mughal rulers of India have the concept of encrypting on headstones. Today when you visit these countries, it will not be difficult to know about the civilization that was then. A detailed literature is provided and we can relive the bygone era through these engravings.
Earlier there were no concepts of grave markers, so the text was etched out or was in the form of sketches. Even those simple techniques which were used then have proved very beneficial for the historians and the archeologists to study the past life.

Headstones in the present era
Time has changed, man has become more sophisticated and techniques have improved. There are conscious effort to chronicle our culture either through history and digitalizing. Still the simple rule of encrypting on the headstones has not been altered.
The belief is rest of the things can fade or get misplaced or destroyed but engravings never die. So, improved grave markers that can last long are used for writing and for getting personalized message on granite.
The time has moved so ahead that even headstones are ordered online and you can get it customized too. There are so many options and designs, give your dear ones the place they deserved through the right type of grave markers and headstones.