Eldest lives near a cemetery that has pirate graves. Ancient headstones with skull and crossbones. Apparently this may have been debunked by some bloke on YouTube, but sadly there was an advert at the beginning of the video so we will never know. Shame.
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Skull and crossbones was also used as a Christian symbol, encouraging people to reflect on life and death. It appears in a carving in our cathedral in Kildare Town.
On graves it was (apparently) a "memento mori".
@TheBreadmonkey I hate when we never know stuff.
We have the grave of a Mr and Mrs Corpse in our local cemetery. A fact that I find disrespectfully funny
@PetraPhoenix If you can't laugh at death what is the point. A punchline to the celebration of the ludicrousness of life. I hope people laugh and joke when I die. With me rather than at me. I welcome it. Celebrate the dead. They earned it. I'd hate to think my entire contribution to the planet was ultimately sadness.
You certainly already make my world brighter for your words being in it.
@TheBreadmonkey I actually watched the video, but the explanation was so unremarkable that I instantly forgot it, apart from it being a popular motif because society used to revel in the morbid. If there was any other reason it's lost in the mists of banality.