Pamphlets asking “Can the dead really live again?”, and directing mourners to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, have been strewn across a cemetery.

A mother happened across the leaflet on Mother’s Day as she was visiting her son’s grave at Kingswood Cemetery in Penrith.

It was their first Mother’s Day apart, after her 20-year-old son died last August.

The woman’s daughter, who asked to remain anonymous, said the leaflets added to a day she was “already expecting to be crap”.

“It was just so inappropriate,” she told 7NEWS.com.au.

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“She (mum) lifted up a rock and there it was.

“Mum was already upset just because of the day but this was just so wrong.”

The bright pink pamphlets pose the question: “Can the dead really live again?”

It then offers the answers “yes”, “no” or “maybe”.

On the inside is a link to the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ website and instructions on how to order other pamphlets.

Leaflets were tucked under ornaments on gravestones. Credit: Supplied

A leader at the local Jehovah’s Witnesses church confirmed the pamphlets were legitimate “but we wouldn’t be endorsing (the way they were strewn) at all”, he told 7NEWS.com.au.

He said the pamphlets would have been stored in a cart near an entrance and only with the permission of the cemetery.

“While we are indebted to spread the truths of the bible, we don’t want to cause undue anxiety,” he said.

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A spokesman for the Penrith City Council said Sunday was an “isolated incident” and the leaflets were subsequently removed.

“Council was advised on Monday afternoon of leaflets that were left in the cemetery and a sweep was conducted to remove the material.”

The daughter says she doesn’t want apologies, but rather accountability.

“Nobody will acknowledge it’s wrong, you would think it’s just common sense.”