My Dad and I used to go out to breakfast, feed the ducks at a local lake and walk around the nearby cemetery afterwards. I must have been no more than 8 years old.

Ummm, the kind of children that can "talk" to dead people (like the kid in the movie)?
Lol so many responses to this thread before someone was like 'Cause the kid can talk to ghosts? And I'm sure the cemetery was full of them.

I went to college with a guy who used to hang out at cemeteries. He didn't do anything disrespectful. I think he read, wrote, meditated and stuff like that. I think he liked the quietness of cemeteries.

This was just on TV. The kid shouted, "
Music
! It's so cool!" when he heard the bagpipes playing at the funeral.
But cemeteries are cool, and so are kids who think cemeteries are cool, and so are mothers who think it's cool that their kids think cemeteries are cool.

I don't come from hell. I came from the forest.

Well, I've always loved cemeteries. So if that makes me weirdI'm ok with that. I've always been attracted to the darker things in life, even as a child.

Ummm, the kind of children that can "talk" to dead people (like the kid in the movie)?

I got interested in cemeteries when I was six. I wanted to be an undertaker when I was eight.
I did grow out of the idea of becoming an undertaker, but I still find cemeteries interesting.

I always did. I could say I was into the history aspect because my dad was in the historical society, but I am pretty morbid as a grownup so maybe I always was.

I loved cemetaries too as a kid. Most children do have a morbid interest in death since it's something that seems so taboo to them since adults rarely discuss the subject with them. It would be even more interesting to a child with psychic abilities who can sense all these spirits around him.
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When I was Jake's age, I did. I lived next to a graveyard and spent the mornings while I waited for the bus looking through the cemetery for lambs, and I tried to figure out how old the children were when they died and what they were like.

Love isn't brains, children, it's bloodblood screaming inside you to work its will.

wowall of you guys have some really good perspectives.guess I was looking @ it the wrong way.
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Always wanted to beep in cemeteries, maybe cause i was raped in one
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I think a child's perception of a cemetery can be influenced in a negative way by movies that make it seem like a scary/sad place. I use to be scared of them as a kid but that was only because I believed that there were bad spooks in there and never had been in one to know the truth. Now as an adult I always beg to stop at the cemeteries when we are on road trips and have visited pretty much all of them in my vicinity. I would like to do a grave rubbing sometimes over in Massachusetts. Those old graves have a lot of character.
To answer your question, I would be curious as to why he/she found it to be such a cool place.

When I was in kindergarten, I lived next to a cemetery. I didn't like it at night because it was near a lake and sometimes there'd be fog which is reminiscent of almost every horror movie ever made, but in the day when I was waiting for the schoolbus, I would wander through the cemetery and pick out the stones that had lambs on them. So, some kids DO find cemeteries cool.

Love isn't brains, children, it's bloodblood screaming inside you to work its will.

In my Biology class in High School, we went on a field trip to the cemetary across from the school. It was the best field trip I'd ever gone on. It's amazing the stories we were able to collect just by reading the inscriptions. I understand how some people find it creepy, but I've just always been on the side of seeing cemetaries as thouroughly interesting places.

Actually my parents lived up the street from a cemetary and all the grandkids would go there every day.

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It seems that you're in the minority here, thecolorplumhehehe.

Cemeteries are some of the most beautiful and peaceful places on earth!

I did! They are full of stories, statues, and were never creepy. Kids love cemeteries, it seems to be only adults that have a problem with them. Reminders of their own morality I guess.

I've always loved cememtaries!

I've loved cemeteries since birth, lol.