Many people around the world decorate their homes and yards with festive lights for holidays such as Christmas or the new year. Icelanders are among them. However, they go a step further. Not only are shops, city streets, and residences draped with twinkling bulbs. They have extended the decking of halls to cemeteries. I kid you not.
I'm not sure whether to be aghast or delighted. On the one hand, I think of cemeteries as somber place. On the other, why shouldn't the departed be part of the festivities, à la Mexico's Day of the Dead?
Do people in any other countries follow this custom?
