subject: Wat Don Cemetery A Place For Disturbed Souls [print this page] Wat Don Cemetery is a place of burial located in Bangkok in a district named Sathon. This region is a well recognized area in Thailand and the cemetery is home to tombs of people belonging to Chinese heritage. The unique feature in this kind of cemetery is that the bodies buried in these premises are of only who died of fatal accidents or sudden deaths like car accidents and have no relative or known person to declare their body. They bury the deceased in the motive of digging them back when a proper claimer arrives to give them a proper burial with burial rights.
However according to the Tai Hong culture it is believed that the spirits are not at peace until then. It is a very famous place in this district and houses graves of very old people dating back to over a hundred years. One could visit this place and look through the graves and notice how many people had a death of bad luck and how many people live their life all alone at the last times of their life. It indeed is a very tragic location. The cemetery is cleaned and the corpse are removed, washed and given a proper burial. This is done when the cemetery is full and there is no space for new arrivals. It is a very relaxing place and gives sad feeling for the dead resting beneath the soil.
When the cemetery is filled up people volunteer to remove some of the old tombs and perform the final rituals. The remains are slowly removed from the soil so that no damage is made and cleaned well and laid upon a white cloth in the shape of the body. There are many rituals and habits that are followed while this process is done. On your visit to Bangkok you can pay a visit to this ancient cemetery where the dead who faced fatal incidents and had no relation at their time of death. If you are looking for hotels, Bangkok has many in store for you and sure to make your vacation comfortable. Anantara Bangkok Sathorn is a Bangkok hotel that you can try out.
