Surm ja matused eestlastel ja Eestis elavatel venelastel
example, more popular a portrait of the person in a uniform become to represent on a monument
or represent anything connected with a way of life of the given person. Also recently drawings
of planes and spaceships, motorcycles, buses, cars and other transport became widespread.
Presumably the transport image is a prototype of traditional symbols, such as a bird, the river, the
road, the ship. The symbolic of gravestones sometimes speaks about the reason or a place of
death of this person.
Summing up, it is possible to tell that nowadays the funeral Estonian culture reflects its own
time. There is traced the fast and practical way of life of a modern society, there are absolutely
another characteristic, rather than to steam of decades back, welfare problems and values.
The survey, which was spent by the author, has proved once again that the modern youth tries
not to think of death