Mind Your Step; you're walking over graves

In The Netherlands, people who could afford it used to be buried inside churches; the graveyard outside was not good enough for them.

This is why you can still find many tombstones in the floors of older Dutch churches; so many in fact, it is not always possible to cross a church's floor without walking over graves.

Here's an example of a beer brewer's grave inside the Bergkerk in Deventer, The Netherlands:

Unfortunately, even beer brewers don't live forever.

People of nobility usually bought larger and more elaborately carved stones, like this one from 1558:

I had to stitch two photos together to make that picture; the stone covered a rather large surface.

Some of the buried were more terse about it:

It does get the message across, though.

Memento mori!