Carolina Jernberg chose a disco tombstone for her son, when he died at just nine years old.
In the feature above, she tells why she wanted a stone with colors that really stand out.
Her first idea was a lion-shaped stone, as Noel was as strong as a lion, but the sketches were not good:
- When I then came up with the disco idea, the stonemasons said that they had never seen anything like it, but I think they thought it was fun to do something different.
Stones that reflect the personality
Sara Adolfsson, is the coordinator for sustainable cemetery and land management in the diocese of Linköping.
She has noticed the trend of odd tombstones and does not mind it:
- We have a more individualized society, where people want to be more special.
The cemeteries must show what history has looked like and we must show our time as well.
She explains that some burial sites, for example, may have rules for how large the tombstones may be, but that it is otherwise entirely up to the burial right holder to decide what the burial site should look like, as long as it does not offend.