Children playing on graves

[Goostacean]

Safety issues aside, should children be allowed to play on graves/gravestones?

There’s a cemetery near me that’s popular with joggers and dog walkers, and obviously with young families currently too. Clearly the “occupants” are unaware, and it’s nice to have some life and laughter there - but also feels a bit disrespectful somehow.

What does MN think...?

I was ready to say YANBU but actually having pondered it I can imagine nothing nicer that kids playing above me (if I believed in that stuff 😀)

There is an old graveyard near us that is now a nature reserve. Lots of kids play there. I wouldn’t let mine climb on the stones, far to dangerous but they could’ve walked on the graves, it’s hard to tell where all the graves are. As a child I played in a playground that was on the site of a graveyard, so I am guilty of playing on graves. The headstones lined the edge of the playground. Many of them were Victorian headstones...

My kids play on their nannies grave. I think it's nice. I'm quite surprised everyone thinks it's disrespectful. I genuinely think she would enjoy watching them if she could see them.