Cemeteries are meant to be visited. Unless the cemetery is serving the community as a positive, useful, fun, or informative place, it's going to get abandoned, run-down, overgrown, or forgotten.
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The stuff that sticks with you doesn't make for good stories. Most people want to hear about mangled bodies or gnarly injuries, but toddlers that drowned in the bathtub or neglected old ladies with their skin rotting off is way worse.