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<blockquote data-quote="Wheel Gun" data-source="post: 2371708" data-attributes="member: 19286"><p>An author wrote a book about this phenomenon a few years ago and I heard him interviewed on the radio. It's kind of a strange thing. He interviewed many families that have put these up and the little shrines are often maintained for many years (or forever). Even more strange, many of these people (primarily women) put more effort into maintaining/tending the little highway shrine than they do their loved one's grave site. People from all walks of life tend to make these and there was no real socioeconomic pattern that he could discover. The only thing that "shrine people" really had in common was the fact that they'd noticed these little displays in the past and had been very moved by them. Often, shrine builders had even stopped to study others' shrines (long before they experienced a traffic death) and it seemed to affect them. </p><p></p><p>So, people are basically copying what they've seen others do. But, it does seem strange that people would fail to visit a loved one's grave, but instead continually decorate and tend their death site shrine. Personally, I think it's odd behavior and akin to prolonged public grieving. It's inappropriate, IMHO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wheel Gun, post: 2371708, member: 19286"] An author wrote a book about this phenomenon a few years ago and I heard him interviewed on the radio. It's kind of a strange thing. He interviewed many families that have put these up and the little shrines are often maintained for many years (or forever). Even more strange, many of these people (primarily women) put more effort into maintaining/tending the little highway shrine than they do their loved one's grave site. People from all walks of life tend to make these and there was no real socioeconomic pattern that he could discover. The only thing that "shrine people" really had in common was the fact that they'd noticed these little displays in the past and had been very moved by them. Often, shrine builders had even stopped to study others' shrines (long before they experienced a traffic death) and it seemed to affect them. So, people are basically copying what they've seen others do. But, it does seem strange that people would fail to visit a loved one's grave, but instead continually decorate and tend their death site shrine. Personally, I think it's odd behavior and akin to prolonged public grieving. It's inappropriate, IMHO. [/QUOTE]
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