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A. Sereika estimated that this year the production of monuments, cemetery roofing, and other cemetery management works became more expensive, although the stone needed for cemeteries had already been brought in by their administrators before. Now that stone prices are rising, the businessman predicts that soon all the work of creating monuments and maintaining the cemetery should become more expensive.
According to A. Sereika, both he and other creators of Panev monumentosžys monuments have recently welcomed not only residents of Panevėžys, but also clients from Vilnius and Kaunas, who are looking for cheaper services.
“The stone and all the other materials necessary to administer the cemetery cost the same in our country and in the capital. However, we probably all know that the people who work there are paid much higher wages, which drives up the prices of the service, ”says A. Sereika.
According to him, ordering a cemetery in Vilnius or Kaunas costs 500 and more euros more than in the capital of Aukštaitija.
A. Sereika named the lighthouse-shaped monument that he had created as the most original order ever received. The parents of such a monument wanted the dead son to take an interest in the lighthouses.
This monument builder noted that customers are less and less willing to see the portraits of their deceased loved ones carved on cemetery monuments. He calls the style of modern tombs minimalist, and modern tombs themselves require as little maintenance as possible.
Change is dictated by need
According to the individual activity certificate, Rita Adomaitienė from Panevėžys, who is dedicated to the management of graves, is convinced that at least the current changes in the cemetery are not due to fashion, but to necessity.
“I would say that covering extremely popular headstones with flagstones is not really a fad, but a necessity,” thinks R. Adomaitienė.
Covering the grave with stone slabs is the most common request that a company of this type hears.
“I have also heard such a saying, I would say, even a reproach that we, the entrepreneurs of the cemetery, introduced the fashion to cover the cemetery and slabs appeared instead of the sand of the grave. I reject such accusations saying that the offer met the demand, ”said R. Adomaitienė.
According to her, when choosing the colors of the granite slabs or the patterns of the granite itself, customers want practicality first. As a result, the most popular stone colors, especially gray.
“There are also black plates for those who want it. These tombs appear more solid, but they also require more care. Every time you come, you have to dust them off, ”said the monument maker and the cemetery manager.
Only surnames are enough
R. Adomaitienė claimed to be a representative of the so-called economy class cemetery management business.
Covering the cemetery with stone slabs costs from 800 to 1 thousand. 500 euros. The average cost of covering with slabs and a monument is 2 thousand. 500 euros. A monument and a fence were built to the cemetery, and the rubble dumped inside cost a thousand. 500-2 thousand euros. The stone used to make monuments and cover tombs is brought to Lithuania from Scandinavia, India, Pakistan and China.
According to the businesswoman, the great monuments are rarely ordered. Small headstones are generally preferred. He observed that it is common to ask that the last name of the deceased be written only on the monument, without the names, year of birth and death.
“When I hear similar requests, I usually first ask if it is desirable to save money by writing names only on the monument, or for other reasons. The answer is usually that it is not necessary to write names and years, because they still remember them, ”said R. Adomaitienė.
Still, it suggests recording both names and years. The same has happened many times when the descendants of the dead did not find the dates of birth and death of their grandparents or great-grandparents in the cemetery monuments, they looked for data in the metrics of the church.
“I notice that more and more people want to know their roots, they care who they were, how long their ancestors lived. That is why I advise writing the names of the dead and when they were born, they died ”, said the businesswoman.
It costs 2 euros to carve a letter or number on a newly built monument, 3-4 euros on an already built monument.
There are different words on the stone
Jurgita Čiuvašina, manager of the Velžis-based monument production company, says she has noticed that customers start looking at monuments made of unpolished natural stone and even the slabs themselves.
She named naturalness the most striking innovation in grave management. According to J. Čiuvašina, it is already rare that someone who asks to write poetic epitaphs of sadness is engraved on monuments, the words “sad family”, “sad children” or the like are rarely used.
“However, I have noticed that it is often asked to carve a little St. Write the words,” noted J. Čiuvašina.
The masters of the company are currently creating an exclusive monument in the form of a book to the late actor from Panevėžys, Algirdas Paulavičius. They have had to build a monument in the shape of a teddy bear on the grave of a dead child. According to J. Čiuvašina, the price also depends on the monument: it is possible to build it for 80 euros, and there were orders for the arrangement of cemeteries, which cost up to 10 thousand euros. The manager estimates that it costs an average of 3,000 LTL to properly fix the cemetery. euros.
The creators of monuments in Panevėžys have recently welcomed not only residents of Panevėžys, but also clients from Vilnius and Kaunas, who are looking for cheaper services.
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