“Tombstones commemorate the acquisition of life. In a gravestone there is a lot of emotions associated with the values of our lifes. Gravestones reflect the personal improtance, the whole history of our nation, and because of that it is necessarity to support and encourage the preservation of the traditions of our people’s short history as an interpreter and an manifestation. A single tombstone is part of the whole cemetary. The erection of the memorial grave of a close or caregiver is a Western way, regardless of religious affiliations.”

- Anne Hirvilahti