A pet graves is one of the things you can find in my backyard. If you read documentary or magazines, you will often come across stories about graves and burial sites. They tell us stories about the past - what happened before us, where we came from, and how people once lived.
I'll start with Thailand. Here, when pets die, they are usually cremated or buried. For people, however, cremation is by far the most common practice. This is quite different from many parts of Europe and America, where burial is still common.
I have quite a lot of land, so I usually bury my pets when they pass away. Sometimes they are cremated, but not very often. I could never bring myself to do the cremation myself. I would have to ask someone else to do it because I simply couldn't bear to watch. Traditionally, cremation requires careful tending of the body so that it is completely consumed by the fire.
Thai people love their pets. Dogs and cats can be like children to their owners. So when a beloved pet dies, the funeral or farewell ceremony often depends on what the owner can afford and what they believe is appropriate. Some people keep the ashes or bones, some scatter them in a river, and the carbon they contain back to the nature.
But cremation also makes me think about something else. When everything is burned and eventually disappears, there may be left for future generations to discover and study. Graves on the hand, can preserve traces of the past and tell stories long after the people or animal are gone.
I have read magazines and articles about ancient times, and one thing we often discover is that animals were buried close to the people who had cared for them when they were alive. In a way , those graves tell us that the bond between humans and animals is not something new. It has been with us
I was thinking about the explorers who enjoy searching for old objects along the river Thames in London. They discover ancient coins and every objects that were dropped or lost in the river, some of them dating as far back as the Ranaissance. There are people who share these discoveries on Instagram as well, known as "Mudlarks"
Human graves from the past are similar in a way. We find jewelry pottery coins valuable objects and even gold buried with the dead. These objects can tell us about the people who once owned them-their social status, their wealth and the class they belonged to.
What we leave behind in our graves may help people in the future understand who we were and how we lived. Nothing in today's world in certain. For all we know the world could end tomorrow.
That is why I believe leaving knowledge behind for future generations is incredibly valuable. The things we leave behind may one day become clues to our lives, just as the objects we discover from the past allow us to understand the people who lived hundreds or even thousands of years before us.
