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Why don't Jewish people put flowers on graves? Asks about a visitor leaving flowers on a grave. The reason we don’t is that it’s “chukas hagoyim”

Does the same logic apply for a the dead person themselves. Meaning could I request that flowers be planted on my grave. Just because I think flowers are pretty and if I’m going to be paying for a random plot of land I might as well get some use out of it.

Or is there any other halachik reason I can’t have flowers planted on my grave?

Loewian
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  • related: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/56872/aesthetics-and-chukoseihem – Loewian Feb 05 '20 at 21:08
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    Why should chukas hagoyim not apply? The deceased isn’t the one who’s putting the flowers there – the living people who are still obligated are. – DonielF Feb 05 '20 at 23:05

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