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Cemeteries also let it be known to hundreds(to maybe thousands) of strangers that someone is grieving. Seeing a funeral procession on a main road in your town lets you, a stranger, know that people are mourning a loss. You can choose to ignore them because they aren't meant for you, or you can complain about how their "public spectacle" is inappropriate. Which do most people choose to do? Everyone grieves in their own way, everyone has a right to grieve in their own way. And honestly, to commemorate a person that you cared for within a significant hobby of theirs would be an amazing way to remember them. For the people who loved them, they become a part of the game that they loved so much, and a world that they shared together. I think that's pretty flippin' awesome. Then again, I'm pretty flippin' sentimental like that. But we don't have to have similar tastes or mourn in similar ways. To be able to see how this could be a comfort to people doesn't require much in the way of empathy, and it isn't like every single player on each server will go one by one to read every single memorial. Everyone has their own lives. And even if it isn't for a real person, RPers would be able to use a headstone/memorial for IC things or for their characters to mourn NPCs. It's a very small thing, one that isn't mandatory, and one that would be appreciated by those who would use it.