Why is a red rose placed on the chest of someone who died?

Maybe it’s a customary thing? Like for the same reason people do a lot of things, they’ve done it all along and they forgot the original reason.

Hmm,true but i’ve always wanted to know why like you said its probably a customary thing.

I’ll go make a time machine for you Lizzie :P

i thought it was a white one

Here they place a red one maybe its different according to where you live?

Thank you :3

According to what I read, it started because long ago, they were used to cover the smell of the rotting corpse since there was no refrigeration.

Where did you read that? i’ve never heard of that before.

Red roses stand for love, so it was to show their love for the deceased, and also cover up the smell of the body. It’s a tradition mostly.

back in the olden days when we used to burn our dead the country of britannia [now great britain] would lay flowers on the deceased corpse as a sign of respect…

its still teh same now, you go to your deceased grave and lay them on teh grave.

obviously the type of flower changes from person to person and back in the day you had to make do with what was in the back garden.

did you see this on one of your 1000000000000 documentaries? ive been trying to search for an answer for a good hour now lol

youll be impressed…. i learned this in school ;)

history was my favourite supject but i do still, at times, struggle with things that go back that far.

but yes there are still things i know haha

I never learnt this in history…and im taking it as a GCSE! :| haha it didn’t go in one ear and out the other then! :P but thanks for answering this Matt!

no probs lizzo but you should read about the history of the country you live in…

theres thousands and thousands of years of history to be learnt.