* Id: GraveyardSleeping * Revision: 1 * State: submitted * * Log: * Revision 1 1999/09/21 Roel van der Meulen * Initial submitted version. Return-path: Received: from pop.argonet.co.uk by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.0.5) for mrs@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:12:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from (silk.spiders.net) [206.24.0.7] by golden.argonet.co.uk with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 11TP7r-0005J2-00; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:34:27 +0100 Received: (qmail 22085 invoked by uid 2590); 21 Sep 1999 12:34:23 -0000 Delivered-To: cleggp-megadodo-mark@megadodo.com Received: (qmail 22082 invoked by uid 2590); 21 Sep 1999 12:34:22 -0000 Delivered-To: cleggp-megadodo-submit@megadodo.com Received: (qmail 22079 invoked from network); 21 Sep 1999 12:34:22 -0000 Received: from strw.strw.leidenuniv.nl (132.229.214.2) by silk.spiders.net with SMTP; 21 Sep 1999 12:34:22 -0000 Received: from beerze.LeidenUniv.nl (beerze [132.229.214.9]) by strw.strw.LeidenUniv.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA10007 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:34:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by beerze.LeidenUniv.nl (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA15135; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:32:03 +0200 Message-Id: <199909211232.OAA15135@beerze.LeidenUniv.nl> X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Subject: New Article: Sleeping in Graveyards From: vdmeulen@strw.leidenuniv.nl (Roel van der Meulen) To: submit@megadodo.com Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:32:03 +0200 Envelope-to: mseaborn@argonet.co.uk Delivery-date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:34:29 +0100 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456 %t Sleeping In Graveyards %n R %s Rest In Peace %a Roel van der Meulen (vdmeulen@strw.leidenuniv.nl) * Based on information from Maria Kaartinen %d 19970814 %d 19990921 %i Cemetary Sleeping %i Where To Sleep In An City Without Friends %x Sleep %x Insomnia %x Communicating With The Dead, A Guide To %x Death And The Afterlife %x Life After Death %x Death, Flirting And %e Imagine you are somewhere in a city where you know no one, and you've run out of options for places to sleep. However, you are in posession of a sleeping bag. You will then want to find a place where it is reasonably safe to sleep, where the chances that someone disturbs you when you are at your most vulnerable are smallest. One of the safest places would be a graveyard. A female friend of mine in Finland has done exactly this. She found it very peacefull there. When it rained, chapels offered her some kind of a roof; in case of disturbances, she had the element of surprise completely on her side. But the chance of anyone looking for someone there are of course remote -- no mugger or murderer would expect to find any victims there. Anyway, she's still alive, and she was never disturbed. Unfortunately, this also meant that she could never freak anyone (e.g. a guard or gardener) out by posing as a nasty satanist. To keep some credibility going, I won't go into such stories as grave robbers named Igor, zombies and vampires. What you _could_ find, however, are vandalists, who like disturbing the dead for a laugh after some heavy drinking (in these cases you wish that some of those horror stories were true) and one or two thrill seekers. I don't know about the situation in other countries, but I figure that this is actually a pretty safe way to spend the night. Most city maps show where their cemetary is, so it should be easy to find. One other sad thing I have to mention is this: In some countries social conditions are so poor, that people actually _live_ in graveyards. No more resting in piece, but maybe the dead actually don't mind some company. %e *EOA*