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Many shrines are seen by the wayside now. People lay flowers at the scenes of fatal accidents. Elsewhere, tributes are left in spots special in some way to a departed loved one or at the scenes of murders. Mrs Gibbs is suspicious. ‘My friend lives at a beauty spot in Devon. People leave flowers but they never come and clear them away when they’re over, and often they leave the plastic wrapping on. I’m also rather against the whole thing, I’m sorry to say. It’s not terribly encouraging, at my age, having all these reminders of death all over the place. And some of these roadside shrines – they go on and on, don’t they?’

 If you are laying flowers in a public place, remove the plastic wrapping. Return to take away the dead flowers.

 Permanent shrines are hard on the living, especially if beside roads or near houses. After six months they should be removed. Thereafter, they can be resurrected on the anniversary of the death that occurred there, provided that the flowers are removed when dead.