Autumn leaves lie on graves at Cologne's Melaten Cemetery. Changing mourning practices are redefining cemeteries. — OLIVER BERG/dpa
Cemetaries have long been seen as quiet places of reflection, but changing mourning practices are redefining them as spaces not only for the dead.
"Above ground, a cemetery is also a place for the living," says Christian Jager, managing director of a funeral directors' association in Germany.
