I got similar thoughts when I visited a bone-decorated chapel in Poland.. it was build&decorated after some great epidemic event, and visitors had a chance of hearing the story behind it - basically corpses laying everywhere, everybody at least slightly sane left the place, and some time after priests moved in and served at least some minimalistic burial to those deceased by collecting the corpses and building the chapel. The story claimed that the chapel was decorated with skulls to provide a form of "reminder" to the local populace.. spooky as fuck.
I got similar thoughts when I visited a bone-decorated chapel in Poland.. it was build&decorated after some great epidemic event, and visitors had a chance of hearing the story behind it - basically corpses laying everywhere, everybody at least slightly sane left the place, and some time after priests moved in and served at least some minimalistic burial to those deceased by collecting the corpses and building the chapel. The story claimed that the chapel was decorated with skulls to provide a form of "reminder" to the local populace.. spooky as fuck.
It does cause one to think about those that have come and gone before us, but it is creepy, and I'd rather be reminded of our forebears in other ways.
Thanks!