Old English law held that whatever way a lich passed became a lich-way or a public thoroughfare. This undoubtably was a reason for survivors living at the end of private roads on secluded estates to feel contempt towards the deceased. The practice has since been discontinued. The splendid tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the World, inspiring many imitators. It fell to the ravages of Crusaders seeking stone for a fortress and pillagers working for the British Museum.
Megaliths never fail to impress moderns who have been spoiled by heavy machinery.
Fertile imaginations may overlook the deviousness, imagination, and intelligence of our ancestors, who raised them by brute force, without the aid of any Startrek tractor beam. Most famous megaliths are not sepulchral at all, but appear just to fascinate cemetery buffs visitors. A relic whose chief purpose is to jar those passing by to remember a concluded event or life. The chief form of resistance to this mind control is to ignore it. Mummies resemble the living except for the marked lack of water, giving buoyancy to the skin.