# Instagram Photo with Grandpa's Gravestone

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 9, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instagram-photo-with-grandpas-gravestone/685715 "2014-04-09T14:19:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![StayseaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@StayseaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StayseaDee)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instagram-photo-with-grandpas-gravestone/685715/1 "2014-04-09T14:19:31Z")

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I am an Instagram fanatic. I follow an actress that isn’t well known, but starred in a few movies when she was younger that were successful. Yesterday, she posted photos of herself in a car on the way to a funeral. One picture. Two picture. Three picture. A little strange she would document the drive to a cemetary, but okay.

Then she posts a picture of her and her brother posing with her grandfather’s gravestone. Both smiling and crouched down behind it, so the name/dates can be shown.

Is it just me or is that strange?

I often see people take photos of gravestones (or a cemetary in general) of people they don’t know for artistic value. Or do charcoal rubbings of old headstones. But a smiling “family photo” including gramps’ grave? It seems morbid to me. Like…is there anything that is off-limits anymore? Anyone agree or disagree?

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instagram-photo-with-grandpas-gravestone/685715/2 "2014-04-09T14:28:32Z")

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> [@StayseaDee](#):
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> But a smiling “family photo” including gramps’ grave? It seems morbid to me. Like…is there anything that is off-limits anymore? Anyone agree or disagree?

I don’t see that as being morbid. Visiting a grave can be for any number of reasons. Celebrating someone’s life with a visit may be joyous occasion. You should check out what goes on during the Day of the Dead festivities.

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**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instagram-photo-with-grandpas-gravestone/685715/3 "2014-04-09T14:36:44Z")

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I met my cousins at the cemetery where my grandparents and great-grandparents are buried, and we posed smiling by the graves. Now the last of the relatives had been buried about forty years ago, my cousins and I had not seen each other for years, and we had just been swapping memories of Grandma and Grandpa, so it’s not like we had just come from the service. But I don’t think it was morbid.