Memorials

Just this afternoon, I passed a corner where a young man died, a motorcycle accident. Taped to the stop sign are pictures , flowers, poems, and people have written all over the stop sign, messages to their dearly departed. Every evening, someone comes and lights one of those prayer candles, you know the ones, with Jesus or the Virgin on them, new flowers arrive daily and the old are left there wilted and dead. I for one, don't understand this recent trend in memorializing the PLACE of death. I get it for the first few days or even weeks after the person passed, but why do we bury someone with a monument and all? There is where the person should be memorialized. If you have a body to bury, then you have a place to go to and "visit." I just think that it is really really sad that a street corner has become the place where we mourn our loved ones. I don't go to the 4th floor of the local dog pound, I mean hospital, and mourn the passing of my Dad, although that is where he died. I don't go to the ER of the same hospital and mourn and memorialize my uncle. Those things don't make sense, then why does it make perfect sense to do all of this and more on a street corner? I feel terrible that the young man was killed there, but the stuff is blocking the corner, will it take another person being killed to get it cleaned up. Either someone is ging to try to read all of the literature or sayings or poems while they are driving past and hurt another person, or someone is going to have to "inch" out into traffic to see if there are others barreling down the street and will cause another fatal accident. It is sad that people cannot mourn in private any longer, I don't get the spectical!
Anyway, this is just me putting a question out there, letting you all know that , yes, I think about other things and do try to rationalize other things, other than Scott's illness. This just irked me today as I drove past again! Let me know what you think.