People absolutely disgust me.

I made a recent trip to one of the city cemeteries, just to see if I could find my great-grandfather's headstone because I hadn't seen it at all since he passed away. Well, we started to walk around to look at some of the older graves and I have to say that I was absolutely appalled at the condition that the groundkeepers were letting these graves get to. It was completely disrespectful and I had to just sit down and cry, not because the people had died, because we will all die sometime, but because of the amount of disrespect that was going on. There were flat headstones that were almost completely covered with new sod. I was pulling up five inch pieces of it just to find an old headstone underneath. There were broken pots that had obviously been hit by lawnmowers and marble headstones barely keeping themselves stuck in the ground because they, too, had been hit by lawnmowers. It just makes me sick. These people are obviously to wrapped up in their own lives and cares to show respect to these people that they are supposed to be protecting in death. But they aren't. They're covering their stones with sod, knocking them over, breaking things. I can't even imagine how the family of some of these people would feel if they knew how utterly disrespectful the cemetery staff is being to their loved ones. I know that my great-grandma has one of the flat headstones and I know that I would be totally devastated if someone treated my great-grandma that way, even if she wouldn't know about it. It's not about whether the person knows about it or not, it's about the level of respect that you have for another person, even in (especially in) death. So, tomorrow, me, my mom, and my brother are going to the cemetery to do what the cemetery staff is supposed to be doing. Cleaning the headstones, placing flowers, fixing things up. Because those people deserve so much better than what they're getting right now. So I hope that you all can take this as a lesson to not disrespect each other and maybe help someone else out, even if they can't help you.