# Dancing on someone's grave **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998 "2014-07-25T05:35:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/41 "2014-07-26T13:51:07Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Never danced, but deliberately snuck into a graveyard and pissed on someones grave. During the Reagan administration, there was a ceremony at a cemetery in Bitberg, Germany, acknowledging the sacrifices of the non-Nazi WWII-era German soldiery. This was very important to the German government, as a symbol of getting past all that in the modern era. Then they discovered that, in one corner of the cemetery, several SS soldiers had been buried, and a not-that-minor flap ensued. As I recall, the ceremony eventually did come off. I think they covered those graves and did the commemorating from the other end of the cemetery. Personally, I thought they should have had the ceremony near the SS graves, and afterwards, all of the dignitaries would walk over and piss on them in unison. But nobody asked me for advice at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/42 "2014-07-26T13:54:08Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > If the deceased person doesn’t see you dancing on his grave - and if nobody else is around - I don’t quite see a point. If a dead person can see you dancing on his grave—RUN! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/43 "2014-07-26T17:04:36Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Never had the chance to _physically_ dance on someone’s grave, but on occasion I’ve [played this song on repeat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIrhOQzHdEs) (Most recently with Fred Phelps.) Is another I'm glad he's dead song. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/44 "2014-07-26T17:38:57Z")
what if there was someone who is no more, has ceased to be, bereft of life, it rests in peace was a good dance partner. would it be a celebration? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/45 "2014-07-26T17:49:17Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Never danced, but deliberately snuck into a graveyard and pissed on someones grave. > [@HipGnosis](#): > > Kinda glad to find out I’m not the only one. We should start a club, maybe. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’d love to piss on Dick Cheney or W’s graves but they may have enough security to prevent such a thing. Perhaps I’ll have to piss on my hands before visiting and then caress their tombstones. Bob, there will probably be a LOT less security after they’ve died and been buried. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/46 "2014-07-26T18:36:26Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’d love to piss on Dick Cheney or W’s graves but they may have enough security to prevent such a thing. Perhaps I’ll have to piss on my hands before visiting and then caress their tombstones. > [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Bob, there will probably be a LOT less security after they’ve died and been buried. if someone thought they took their secrets to the grave then there might be some digging instead of dancing. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/47 "2014-07-26T18:42:30Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > You honestly don’t see how it could mean that someone is still obsessing over a problem that no longer prevails? > > I can see how it could work either way, depending on the person and the situation, but if you can only see one side, then… OK. Whatever. Just get over it eh? My father was cremated - great. During the course of the wake we went off somewhere to scatter his ashes. Many of his friends attended including several of the fellow perverts. I suddenly realised I wanted to be the first to get my hands into those fucking ashes, I dug in and chucked a goodly handful to the wind. All at once I felt a total revulsion - here now I had the bastard all over my hands, I dusted them off in horror. :eek: A friend, let’s call her Sue has written into her will that should her ex-husbands current wife be still alive at the time of Sues demise, provision should be made for said wife to dance on Sues grave and she has set aside a suitable sum to provide for the musical accompaniment. Sue is a fantastic dancer, so when the new wife tried to curse her with the ‘dance on your grave thing’ she embraced it. In fact we suspect the wife will do no such thing, so should I be available I’ve agreed to … dance on my friends grave! :D:D ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/48 "2014-07-26T19:30:34Z")
[quote=“Munch, post:40, topic:693998”] One of my favorite moments of the television show “Northern Exposure” was when Ruth Anne was having a birthday, and was getting depressed because all her friends were gone, she was so old, etc. Ed takes her up the mountain to show her the present he got her: [/QUOTE] I was going to link this. ---
**Author:** ![7e42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/51bf81/32.png) [@7e42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7e42)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/49 "2014-07-26T19:38:41Z")
I would love to dance on the governor of my state grave since he doesn’t want poor people to eat:D ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/50 "2014-07-26T20:30:51Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Never danced, but deliberately snuck into a graveyard and pissed on someones grave. My grandmother, pregnant with my dad, was caught in the middle of a gun battle [when John Dillinger robbed a bank in Mason City Iowa](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dillinger#Mason_City.2C_Iowa.2C_robbery). 56 years later, I pissed in the alley next to the Biograph Theater. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/51 "2014-07-26T23:17:18Z")
This thread would make a great Father’s Day read. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998/52 "2014-07-26T23:19:43Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > Just get over it eh? I’ll thank you not to try to put words in my mouth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-someones-grave/693998.md?page=2)