Ask a Mortician: EXHUMATION 

When my son Stevie passed away 21 yrs ago , no need to say I was a little crazy at the time , went to cemetery to plant something , I took a full size shovel and rake and I'm going at it digging away talking to my son ( I still do that ) minding my own business and happened to notice the cars on the road we're going really slow , ( I live in a small town everyone knows everyone ) , it finally hit me , they all thought I was going to dig him up , no one stopped me , I guess they thought I was ok nothing unusual for Edna. They never let me forget it . 👼💕😘

"You know you can't exhume corpses in the dead of night?" Don't tell me how to party.

Caitlin: "Exhumation of a corpse under the cover of night is illegal" Necromancer: "awww"

My family has had to have a body removed. Cemetery buried a stranger in my grandma's spot next to grandpa. Grandma was a bit shocked when she saw a date of death on the headstone.

"Because they're people too" awwww that kid was so sweet.

"Because they are people too"

Here's a fun exhumation story, which I hope I get mostly accurate. A friend of mine was helping his mom, who was an undertaker, at her job. If I remember correctly, a water main had broken and a whole bunch of bodies in an underground crypt had to be removed so repairs could be made. Because the crypt had individual pods, the bodies weren't in caskets. They were just on a sliding tray sort of thing inside their pod. My friend's mom was on a ladder, accessing one of the pods that was higher up, and my friend was on the ground holding the ladder steady. You can probably see where this is going. The leaking water had essentially made a corpse soup and, when my friend's mom pulled the tray out, a bunch of this soup sloshed out, onto my friend's upturned face and into his open mouth. He would sometimes say, with a haunted sort of voice, "I've eaten a corpse before".

That little kid is the bomb. Sometimes I have a hard time with how repulsed people get with dead bodies because it's forgotten that they are people. They are someone's daughter, someone's father, someone's sister, someone's husband.

Fun story: My grandfather passed away in 2008 with the expectation my grandma would be buried next to him when she passed away last year. she didn't have any money set aside for her sudden death. We got up to the cemetary where my grandfather was already buried and we were told that due to him being placed smack in the middle of the two plots, we wouldn't have to pay to have her buried. He wasn't exhumed, but he was scooted over a tad to make room for gammy. The savings were nice, but it cracked me up. They slept separately for as long as I've been alive, and to me it seemed he was just sleeping in the middle of his new bed.

Your corpse is completely safe and respected by law, unless someone decides a McDonald's would look better in that spot 😂😂😂

I once had to exume a body found in a basement. A new owner had been digging a hole for a sump pump in the corner of his new house. He found bones in a plastic bag buried about a foot down that he thought belonged to a baby and called the cops. When I found the skull I found it to belong to a dog rather than a human. Former owner had chosen the basment to bury a pet. Wasted a while afternoon getting all the forensic stuff set up for that. But better safe than sorry.

This brought back memories. when I was a kid my uncle wanted to be buried with his mom, my grandmother, and I was allowed to be the one to go into the grave to collect her bones. I remember feeling so proud to have been trusted to collect her remains. I never got to meet her and that was a sort of comfort. Just FYI this is very normal in the area of Mexico we are from. I had never heard of embalming or seen such ornate caskets until I attended funerals in the US.

Thought I accidently clicked on Dr. Phil.. Got real confused...

"You know you can't exhume dead bodies in the cover of night." How else am I supposed to spend my summer?

I kinda want my body to be buried in an unknown location. A trail of clues lead my friends to the grave site. As a final task, they must dig the grave open to find a second casket on top of mine with gifts and vouchers for cake. Yay!

Makes me remember when I was studying archaeology and was on a dig just outside an cemetery, and we started finding lots of "new" bones. We stopped digging and went to talk to the people in charge, who went and made several phone calls, and by the end of the next day we were told that they had moved the perimeter of the cemetery a few meters, without moving the bodies (only the gravestones... just like in Poltergeist from 1982)

I'm from Switzerland and when I was like 8, my neighbour showed up with a bag... A transparent one. Turns out, it was her husband that died 8 years before that

"Because they're people, too." If only all of us had such a comfortable relationship with the dead.

My great grandfather had been missing for many, many years(long story). My mom and my aunt decided to try to find him, and they did. He had been dead for around ten years, and was several states away. They did have him brought back, and before re-internment, the family wanted to see him. The people who brought him weren’t very keen on the idea, but, none the less, did open him. I wanted to look but Mama wouldn’t let me(I was only about 8 years old), but have since seen the pictures. He’d just had a pauper’s grave and was completely skeletonized, but still had hair.

You should do a video on Abraham Lincoln’s corpse: its multiple embalmings, its frequent disenterment, the one time it was almost stolen, and the time it was exhumed in the early 1900s to make sure it was still there.

graves are also leased in the netherlands i believe. when my brother was little he used to play in a spot of greenery next to a nearby graveyard where they would sometimes just chuck out old exhumed remains (i don’t think they do that anymore) and one time my brother came home with a human femur. mom was not amused

I was manager of a cemetery for 18 years and we had several of those scenarios happen. One was for a second autopsy for a child who died of poisoning. Another was for a woman retiring from her job and moving back to the Philippines. Her husband had been buried 20 years prior in a very air tight vault holding a wooden casket. He was removed for cremation so that she could take him with her. Other than the casket interior falling from the lid onto his face, he was in perfect condition. His skin was almost like stone and you could still see the slight stubble on his chin. I will never forget that. The child was a completely different and horrible experience in which the parents were present for. We tried to discourage them from being there but they insisted but quickly left when the casket was pulled from a very water soaked grave liner. And yes we had a few accidental, wrong gravesite reburials. Hey we’re all human and make mistakes sometimes. It’s just really hard on the family and also on us. I would certainly like more detailed information on the different conditions of the exhumed bodies. I have referred to two. Sealed caskets verses NONsealed? Graveliners verses sealed vaults? Embalming verses no embalming? I know, I’m weird to most people but it takes a certain kind of person to be in this industry anyway . ⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️

My parents somehow ended up buried on the opposite side of their plot than is usual. Mom is on Dad’s side and Dad is on Moms. So if you go by the lettering, my mother was a pilot in WW-2.

I remember walking in a cemetery as a little kid and feeling a few bumps in the ground from tree roots and probably mole burrows but at the time I thought that they were human bones and my parents had to explain to me that the bodies were buried deep in the ground and not scattered haphazardly

I dig You dig He dig She dig We dig They dig It's not a beautiful poem, but it's very deep.

When I went to visit distant relatives’ graves (like, 75 years distantly deceased) during a student trip to Italy, they had already been removed to a mausoleum for holding, and the caretaker asked if I’d like to take them with me. He said it in Italian, and I had to ask him to say it twice, then ask my Italian friend to translate it, because I was so sure I had misunderstood. When I told my family the story back home, one auntie in all seriousness asked why I hadn’t done the right thing and brought them with me. So. There’s that.

When my cousin in Spain was in medical school she needed a skeleton for a class, but her mom couldn’t afford one of the educational plastic ones so she went to the local cemetery and asked for bones. They gave them to her separately and had my cousin reassemble as a learning activity lmao.

that kid saying "they are people too" brought tears to my eyes. ;___; so cute and pure

"Because they are people too" dang that kid is deep

Darn even in death you gotta pay rent

I feel like your hair doesn’t get enough appreciation. You have the most gorgeous hair. 💜

The little kid saying “they’re just people too” made my morbid little heart so warm and fuzzy!

When our local graveyard was being refreshed, I was allowed to take a peek. I saw the bones of a woman burried in a lead casket, ages old. All of the bones, clothes and hair were intact. It was unsettling and fascinating.

My friend and husband actually exhumed their son when they moved and buried him closer to their new home. They obtained appropriate authorization, yet they chose to do it themselves during the night to avoid strange looks and to have the privacy of a very emotional moment. It was just her and her husband, a couple of shovels, and a pick-up truck. They then took him to the new plot and reinterned him.

Having been a child whose family were in the ‘Death Biz’, Caitlyn you are a perfect match for this profession! Hilarious 😂😂😂

Back when i worked in a cemetery here in the uk, graves over 100 years were considered empty (few special graves were exemptions). Fun story we had to do an exhumation of a grave once, everything was going well, until we were lifting the casket out... and one end broke open covering one unfortunate worker in water, putrifying and liquified fat and flesh and everything else.... yeah wasn't a pretty sight.

Caitlin, we are dealing with the hurricane right now. What happens to all the cemeteries that flood? Do they reinter the bodies if necessary? What happened with ones like Hurricane Katrina, and the graves that were above ground.

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Girl, you should have never told me to RU-vid around for Exhumation videos!! Since I watched this yesterday I’ve been binging around literally all day yesterday and starting again today on everything from exhumations to abandoned funeral homes, mausoleums & cemetaries, funeral home scandals and all sorts of dead themed stuff since. If my husband looks through my RU-vid history he’s going to get super suspicious!! LOL

"...and don't forget to double-check you're exhuming the right grave!" 😂😂😂

Interviewer- “Are you scared?” Kid- “No” Interviewer-“Why not?” Kid- “Cause they are people too.” You go little Deathling, you go!! ❤️☠️❤️

How about this; What happens to unclaimed bodies at the morgue?

"...when the mood strikes them." Ughh Caitlin, feeling cute, might dig or exhume a body later.

Omg the little boy saying "bc they are people too" was so sweet 😭 he's adorable

In some parts of Romania, people exhume their loved ones seven years after they passed away. It is said that monks from a famous monastery, „Mănăstirea Neamțului” took over this ritual from Athos, where monks were often exhumed due to lack of space or due to the rocky terrain. It’s interesting that at the end of a traditional burial ritual, the priest ``seals`` the grave, by carving a small cross in the earth in which the person is buried. Theoretically, nobody should be able to break the seal. But people wanted to apply the same monk-ritual to their loved ones and some still do it up to this day. I know that after the remains are exhumed, they are washed with water and/or wine and that certain rituals are performed. The family also has to perform a certain alms-giving. Fun fact: if for some reason (apart from the fact that seven years have passed) a body has to be exhumed and it is found in an ``uncommon`` position or almost intact (despite the fact that it has been buried for quite some time) it is believed that the individual is a revenant or ``strigoi``. This evil spirit is usually found guilty for the misfortunes the family had to deal with after his/her departure. There are many stories about how these spirits make an apparition or steal milk from animals, make people ill or even kill them. Now, in some areas, if an individual is believed to turn into a ``strigoi`` after he passes away, his/her loves ones have to take preventive measures. They may pour sand and/or poppy seeds in the coffin, so that the spirit will be busy counting them and never return. They may even make small dolls representing members of the family or their live stock so that the spirit won’t miss them and therefore return. It is fascinating how in some cultures the dead are invested with feelings and they are believed to have such a powerful influence onto the lives of those who remain, whereas in other cultures, the death process is so much formal. I am so thankful for your channel, it really helped me cope with the idea of death. And it changed my perspective towards Romanian burial rituals as well! They are numerous and may differ from one area to another, but they no longer seem foolish or useless to me. They really speak for a very affectionate way of treating the dead, understanding and accepting this crucial process. And to me, this is beautiful.

Thank you for sending me down the weirdest RU-vid hole I've ever been down.

Something that happened near me was that a grandmother had been buried with the wrong jewelry. She willed on all her real stuff (diamonds, gold, all nice expensive pieces) and had fakes made of her favorite stuff she wanted to be buried with. Someone mixed them up and they didn't learn till many years later when her granddaughter was getting married as they wanted to re-appraise some things, and found they were all fake. Granny got brought up and the goods switched. And thoroughly cleaned by jewelers.

#3 is frustratingly happening within my family, my grandparents have 2 plots side by side but someone was buried inbetween the plots so there isnt enough room on either side for any other burials

Just proves Caitilin has a heart of gold...see? Its glowing!

This is unrelated but your hair looks especially good in this vid! So thick and healthy. I’d die and get exhumed for your bangs

Omg 3 had happened to my family a few weeks ago. Long story short my grandmother was buried on top of twin girls from 1945. The biggest thing that strikes me is that this grave site was HUGE but only 1/4 was being used. We where all so confused on how this had happened

I recall forty years ago, the first "Poltergeist" movie, where the head of the household (Craig T. Nelson) is the top salesman for a real estate development company and owns a home there. His wife (JoBeth Williams) notices some strange things, including their youngest child (the late Heather O'Rouke) speaking of contact with mysterious beings, including the famous phrase, "They're Here!". It turns out that the salesman's boss was penny-pinching and corrupt, building houses right over an old cemetery, as he assured his salesman that they'd properly relocated the cemetery, in fact, only moved the HEADSTONES. Naturally, the ghosts of the deceased were none too happy about that. I believe that, in the real world, especially in Southern California, there's no way that a developer could get away with such a stunt, as the presence of old, decaying bodies is of itself a health problem, especially building single-family homes over them! Where such a plan could go awry, even with good intentions, is that if there was an undocumented burial, so the remains were left in situ.

When performing a DIY exhumation, always remember to call before you dig.

"this is to protect your remains from just anybody being able to move your remains when the mood strikes them" "how are you feeling today" "ah ya know... Kinda wanna go see a movie, kinda wanna dig up someones dead body"

My mom's family has a burial plot where my grandparents and many of my aunts and uncles are buried. Everytime someone dies, they dig up the previous occupant and then bury them again with the new bodies. My grandfather is now just a bunch of bones in a sack held together with duct tape.

My grandparents were originally buried in the ground. When the cemetery they were interred in decided to build a mausoleum, my father and his siblings arranged for a disinternment from the ground to the vaults inside.

I was wondering how should we talk about suicide in a death positive way? My friend recently died by suicide and I’m at a loss of how to talk about it with other people. I’m scared of people making judgements about him and I also want to speak of him in a way that honors him rather than a way that makes him seem like the guilty party.

Caitlin! Would you ever think of making a video on Tennessee's Body Farm? I've been studying it and its so cool!

My dark death secret: I used to go out into the woods after the spring floods and collect the little animals that had drowned when the river waters rose and got washed up on the banks. Then I would take them to our woodworking shop behind our house and I would make each one a little coffin out of scraps of wood and line them with little bits of fabric so the little bodies would be comfortable. Then I would collect the flowers and leaves and dead bugs that each little mole and shrew and such liked to eat when they were alive so they would have something to eat when they woke up in the afterlife... and that's completely the truth. And possibly why I like your videos so very much. Thank you. ❤🖤❤

One of my cousins died in a car accident, a week after he turned 18, his mom and dad in their grief interred him in one cemetery, but a few months later decided they wanted him buried in the cemetery next to the church where they got married. It was a big legal mess, but they got it done, and they are content with where Doug is now.

oH MY.. MY FAVORITE NEWS STORY TO COVER..! AS a senior videojournalist was covering from investigation to sentencing of Blanche Taylor Moore in NC in the 90's.. my reporter and I dug up some of the major information used by the state to convict this woman of trying to kill her minister husband and four other people. She killed using arsenic those other people. i found using my ability as a Reserve Undercover Intelligence officer in the Army and former CIA officer of 20 yrs .. etc. and having a relationship with her grown daughter. I then had the job of getting up at 5 am to cover three exhumations. then going to Chapel HIll for the State medical Examiner. He asked me to stand in for the coffins to be opened up . as an intel officer to help him a bit. I did not of course report on this but saw each body. on two they looked to be but days dead.. the other not so good at all. This case was something. The woman was really the product of her struct abusive father a preacher. He raped and beat her as a girl. What a case.. but did get to follow it from start to finnish. Jim Waters.

An interesting exhumation is that of Queen Christina of Sweden's grave. She was born in 1626, and when she was born she was first mistaken for a boy. She was the only surviving child of King Gustav II Adolf (aka Gustavus Adolphus) and he decided that she should be raised as a crown prince and become the ruler of Sweden after his death. When Christina became queen she was constantly told to get married, but she refused. She wasn't seen as particularly feminine either. There is also evidence that suggests that she was gay, there are love letters between her and a woman at court. All of this led to discussions about her gender, she was suspected to have been a hermaphrodite. After years of discussions, in 1965, almost 300 years after her death (she died in 1689) her grave was exhumed and her skeleton examined, and they determined that she was, after all, a regular woman.

I've watched so many of your videos in the past couple of days, great content. Bravo. I'm finding it all oddly calming during this pandemic. Hope you are keeping yourself safe

As for Germany, we have a rule which is called "ruhezeiten" (resting period) based on the Bestattungsgesetz (burial law). That time depends on the bural method. For a normal adult in an eathgrave it is between 20 and 30 years and for children 10 to 20 years. For urns it is 15 years For "treeburals" (where you ashes are used to fertalise a tree) we have up to 99 years depending on the tree, the area andhealth of the tree For tobs they are often unspecified, as tombs are often property of the family rather than the graveyard. After those restign periods there are 2 possibilities, either the family lengthens the time by payment or the grave will be disolved and given to somebody else. The times are set for 2 reasons a) time of decomposition of the remains (embalming isn't realy a thing here) b) time for the next of kin to grow up with the ability to have a place to mourn - So that even if you mother dies in childbirth, the child has at least 21 years (to full legal adulthood) to visit the grave.

Used to work in a cemetary in Sweden... we re-use graves and grave lots get rented by the next of kin when you bury someone, but if i'm not mistaken a grave must be left undisturbed for something along the lines of 30 years before it can be re-used. This is to ensure that as much of the body as possible has time to decompose before the grave gets dug up again. With that said, it's not at all uncommon to find intact bone fragments or fragments of the casket. Since we don't really bury "vaults", as in sealed stone or concrete caskets, you don't really have to worry about finding embalmed corpses when you open a grave unless the casket was buried in really wet soil where the decomosition process gets halted due to the moisture content in the soil. Ususally though when you know that a grave is located in wet soil you wait a lot longer before re-using the grave since... well, nobody really wants to dig up a half-decomposed corpse for several reasons. The most i have ever found while digging graves was fairly large parts of the dress that was worn by the woman who was buried there before. Other than that not much usually remains. It has just been the standard femur fragments, shoulder blade parts, skull fragments and parts of coffins etc. The only "disturbing" thing that i've ever dug up was when we were digging a ditch for a cable that was going around the church right next to the church wall. There i dug up bone fragments from what used to be children, as orphaned children or children whose parents could not afford a grave out in the cemetary for their deceased child back in the day would get buried right next to the church wall instead of out in the cemetary. It didn't bother me all that much but i can imagine it might freak some people out since i know a lot of people really don't like to think about that sort of stuff. As for what happens with the bones, casket parts and whatever else we might dig up, it gets handled as respectfully as possible when found (they did use to be people once after all) and then they get re-buried with the new casket when the grave is filled back up. The next of kin for the previous person buried usually don't get notified, as the grave often no longer "belongs" to them and it is fairly standard procedure. Since there isn't really much they could do about it anyway (except re-renting the grave for however long they might want it), it seems kind of like a dick move to call someone up and go like "So yeah, hey... we dug up the bones of your dead grandma... we found parts of her femur... a skull fragment... we'll be putting it back when we bury the new casket though... just thought you should know.". I think most people here would prefer to not hear about it. During those 30 years though, any digging that's any more serious than planting a few flowers next to the tomb-stone or straightening said tomb-stone is a huge no. Digging up a grave unless for a very VERY good reason, usually officially sanctioned by a court of law, will land you in pretty hot water pretty quickly. You DO NOT mess with graves. Period.

I have a death question! I’d like to know details on how a deceased person’s face or craniofacial region is reconstructed in the event of catastrophic trauma to the head or face and the family wants an open casket. I recently had an acquaintance unfortunately take his own life using a shotgun and I heard that his family is planning a very private open casket funeral. What materials are used? How is it done? What are the steps? Thanks in advance!

I recently had a video in my recommended of an exhumation of someone who has passed away around a year prior. I wish I had never seen it. It has traumatized and disgusted me so much that I reported it, it still has millions of views, and I can't wrap my head around it. This is so disrespectful and so disgusting, let the people rest in peace please... they were once humans, just like us. If someone ever dug up my decomposed body and put it on youtube to gross out the rest of humanity, I would have felt ashamed and literally "turned around in my grave".

I did burial vaults for a couple years and it was actually pretty cool! I was involved in a couple removals and exhumations, and as nasty as they could be I've learned alot of things about death! cool series, always interesting stuff!

Having 5 extra points in your stealth stat will always help with exhumation

6:50 Interesting how in other cultures kids have exposure to more things and aren't so scared or emotional and are more realist and practical about it all

I love the straight forward way you address these topics!

You know, it could be a really cool way to free up grave space, to exhume the bones and let the family decorate them and then pose them around the cemetery, like a giant death day party. It might also help people grieve.

She's literally been on YT for years and she looks the exact same. She doesn't age at all.

"I don't want to show anything too graphic" literally shows a human skeleton with it's shirt on being pulled out of the ground 6:43 😂 love you Caitlin!

Shout-out from a Tucson deathling! It always cracks me up to hear our little city get mentioned in other media.

I worked as a grounds keeper at a cemetary in south florida for about 3 years in the early 90s. We did a disinterment one morning and it was a monday, I was hungover from the weekend. When we brought the casket out of the concrete lawn crypt the family of the deceased was present. They wanted the casket opened, the staff of the cemetary advised against it. The family won out since it was their money, but when the casket was cracked everybody spilt and I went back to the shop and puked.

You have helped more people accept and learn about death. Thank you.

I was just watching dr Phil and I got very confused. I’m always excited to see your videos though.

I love the way your vids are edited! Great content!

My sister was still born in the 70s. My mother was never able to see or hold her and the military buried her in a plastic bag in a cardboard box. No other option was given to my mother at the time to her recollection although trauma is possibly blocking some details. We just moved her ashes, gave her a proper beautiful engraved urn and buried her in the VA cemetery. It surprised me how emotional the whole thing was for me as she died nearly 7 yrs before I was born. She deserved better than she got in the beginning, but the military didn’t treat child loss with the sensitivities it deserved. I hated to have her moved but I’m so happy that my mom now has a place she is able to visit and that my sister was buried with the respect of the life that she was.

Exhumation it's a great way to dig up old friends. 💀 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 (Sorry I know its a bad joke but I just couldn't resist it. )

Is there any difference in how old and young people decay?

Poking away through your channel. I really like the intro to these older videos. Those cats just kill me!

Hi Caitlin, I find your videos informative , very well done and extremely funny! Thank you!!

Disinterment... I had BOTH, my grandmother and grandfather Disinterment, from a Cemetery to another Cemetery. As the UMC Church obtained an abandon 200 yr old country church and came up with a bunch of rules and regulation not only to governor their Parish members, but also the lands of the cemetery.. i.e. Only UMC Members in Good Standing could be interned within the cemetery. The prior people that were buried within this cemetery for many years were Roman Catholic and various other Christian groups... The UMC began issuing strict rules on what we could leave on our families grave sites when we visited, no Catholic Faith mementos, etc.. .... The UMC was vicious to all the families here... So, I began the Disinterment Process... The only thing I had to do was... 1.) Sign the RELEASE for the Undertaker to PROCEED as I was the next of kin as well as named by named in their last will and testament as the heir... 2.) The Undertake only had to notified this Church when the Disinterment process would begin... Basically, the Undertaker did make notification the day he began the process, by slipping the notification into their door mail slot. As he said, the law states, notification is to be made "WHEN" the Disinterment was to begin. and well, he did and Began.. :) I held the Deed as owner for a Family Private Cemetery, which is where I had them taken too.. Now for the funny part... a few years later, the UMC Church, as well as I were informed that the 1.81 net acre cemetery did not belong to the UMC Church. Matter-of-fact, it was once apart of my Great Great Grandmothers Cattle Farm. When the farm was sold, the 1.81 net acre tract of land was "EXCEPTED AND RESERVED" unto the Heir of my Great Great Grandmother... that heir, was my Grandmother. As of today, I am now the Lawful owner of this cemetery. And now the UMC Church plays by my RULES... Not One of their members will I grant to be intern into My Private Real Estate! :) God Got them in the end... :) :)

My grandmother passed away a few years ago and her husband had to be disinterred because the cemetery needed to dig deeper in order to stack her casket on top of his.The cemetery wasn't sure if his casket was steel or actual wood since he was buried back in 1978, so they had us prepared well enough away from the dig just in case. Luckily, he had a steel casket so no unexpected mishaps, but I was excited that I was able to be there to see the entire thing. Love your videos!

Loved this! Just found your channel and I've been catching up on your videos! I'm from Tucson! So it was good to hear you know our town! Now you know a person too!

I didn’t realize you have been doing this for ten years , because I have 10 years of watching to see the ones I have missed you are extremely easy to interpret your discussion but can make a person a pperson laugh at the same time, when I get depressed all I have to do is listen to you ,very very unique person

I’ve just moved to Germany from the U.K. and the homesickness is kicking in. Your death update is comforting me 💖

Here in Croatia in larger cities due to lack of space you have to pay yearly fee if you want to keep permanent burial place, if 10 years nobody pay a yearly fee for that space, they are allowed to dig the remains out, put them in small box and place those small boxes in underground concrete chamber, all with respect to remains of that person and give that grave to someone else. In smaller cities and vilages graveyards ther`s no that kind of practice. And for diging out remains or for any kind of vandalazing graves there is a crimnal law named "Violation of peace of the decased".

Your presentation is well balanced - with facts and humour. Great work. I grew up in the 50s and 60s where one did not talk about any of this stuff. Great channel.

You wanna know what's magical - that lip color! Beautiful. Love your videos, and also recently finished the Audible of "From Here to Eternity." Keep it up!!!

Caitlin, I'm really "DIGGING" this video!!!

At my old Catholic school in the campus grounds in the woods, there was a large clearing set aside to bury all the nuns who passed away. A sinkhole began to form on the plot of land so they had to exhume all the nuns’ bodies and relocate them. The school got super haunted after that 😂

You always explain things so wonderfully!! Thank you very much!!!

I honestly dont know why this channel came up in my suggestions randomly one day.... but I'm honestly fascinated 😳

I'm danish, and my mom works at a graveyard, like a gardener, while also digging the graves and keeping the church nice. Here graves are 'rented' too, 30 years for a normal burial, 10 for cremated remains, but it can be prolonged by the family. Terminated graves, that are being reused, often have bone remains left (depending on the soil), but they stay in the graveyard, in Denmark people are not allowed to have human remains in their homes (as far as I know, which is why I always find it 'weird' when you see American movies where people have cremated remains on the shelf). Often the bones are just placed on top of the new grave, if smaller bones 'escape' the burial process, and my mom finds them later, she buries them next time she digs a hole, often under new flowers! Fun fact: my mom often find teeth in the stones on the pathways! no idea how they get there! (Danish churchyard: www.mitfanoe.dk/images/kirker/kirkegaarde/nordvest.jpg )

I would love to hear if you have any thoughts on Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia), the cemetery with no owner.

“Go ahead, I have no shame.” This cracked me up. I love your channel

OMG, I just came across your channel and I am lovin’ it! Weird? Nope, I’m a past funeral assistant so I love it all! 🖤🖤🖤