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Thank you kindly Curt ... I'll add that book to my wish list on Amazon.

Highgate is beautiful and so is the City of the Dead (Necropolis) in Glasgow. There is a smaller on in Edinburgh which is also very lovely, especially since I was there at the tail end of autumn so it was damp and mist wreathed and the willows were all heavy.

I spent whole days in Highgate as well as the Necropolis in Glasgow, which is on a hill behind the Cathedral.

Here in Asia we have some lovely cemetaries too and they come up very close to streets and homes. Many are Chinese and but some of the oldest are from the Colonial times and are very melancholy and shadowed. My favourite one is in Penang. I don't think anyone visits anymore since I believe anyone related to the people there have either left Malaysia or are no longer living themselves. At least I have never seen anyone. Not anyone living and breathing anyway.

There is one cemetary in Penang that has grown up around a township so the inhabitants have to drive through it to get to and from home. Given the Eastern beliefs of ancestor worship and respect, Death and all that go with him are an integral part of our lives.