By Jim Winnerman
Special to the Post-Dispatch
During Halloween in the United States, many lawns and stoops are festooned with creepy fake headstones displaying spooky epitaphs meant to elicit fear and trepidation. But around the world burial grounds have often been an everyday part of living.
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A lion is part of the themed Lost City of Neptune Memorial Reef under the sea and three and a quarter miles off Key Biscayne. The reef is 40 feet under sea and its human constructed statues and structures has become a habit to sea life and a permanent home to many cremated deceased.
(Carey Wagner/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/MCT)
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Caskets are nailed and suspended on a mountain cliff in the Philippines.
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At the New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad, India, death is also a part of lunch. This bustling cafe is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls and the graves between the tables.
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The Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is the final resting place for a dizzying array of famous names: Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, to cite just a few.
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The Okunoin Cemetery, with more than 200,000 gravestones, is the largest cemetery in Japan.
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