Here is something that I have just read, and as I'm being lazy today.
A little segment from Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being:
She leaned over the hole. It was extremely deep. She dropped in the flower. It sailed down to the coffin in graceful somersaults. In Bohemia the graves were not so deep. In Paris the graves were deeper, just as the buildings were taller. It chilled her, and she hurried home.
She thought about that stone all day. Why had it horrified her so?
She answered herself: When graves are covered in stones, the dead can no longer get out.
But the dead can't get out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?
The difference is that if a grave is covered with a stone it means we don't want the deceased to come back. The heavy stone tells the deceased, 'Stay where you are!'
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