Posted by Old Iowa on November 02, 2013 at 20:41:55 from (208.126.196.144):
Five years ago a young fellow was riding with a friend from a party. They both where drunker than skunks. The drunk driver wrecked his truck right at the edge of my property. The drunk passenger was throw out of the truck. He died while in route to the hospital.
Now the issue. The fellow that died was an alright young man, he was only 20 years old. He was just a regular kid. His family put up a small cross at the accident site. Then over the years they added a few flowers. This is not really any big issue. Now they came to me and want to put a permanent Marker up. I do mean headstone type of marker. This is the problem.
The kid is buried in a local cemetery. That is where any marker should be in my opinion. (There is a headstone there already) I understand how losing a young man like that effects parents. They are not rich people by any means. They are what we would have called working poor years ago. The trouble is that they have elevated what there son was to the point he is just like Lincoln or JFK in their eyes. So they think the accident site is important.
I have tolerated the small cross and other things in consideration of their "feelings" and their loss. I kind of figured that they would gradually get over their loss and would quit the shrine deal. Now they want a concrete footer and stone marker there. This would be within 250 feet of my front door. I really do not want this there. I think it could really hurt the value of my home when I would go to sell it. Plus I own the land where this all happened. It is not their's just by squadding on it.
Am I looking at this wrong??? I feel they are out of line in doing this there. Their son is buried at a cemetery. That is where they should be putting these kind of things.
I see the fade of marking the accident locations where people have died. I do not think this is the way to do this. Am I out of line on this??? I see this marker setting there forever. Then when the kid's parents die whomever owns the property has to keep up the maintenance on this marker.
If they want a shrine to honor their son it should be in/on their home/land. How would you handle this??? I told the Father I would have to think about it for awhile.
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