In the dead of night, beneath the moon's soft glow, Mental Martin digs down low, Fifty-two years have come and gone, Yet he returns to the earth's dark dawn. With shovel in hand and sweat upon his brow, He digs with purpose, he knows not how, For buried deep beneath the ground, A femur waits, a secret found. Through layers of dirt and forgotten dreams, Martin digs deeper, or so it seems, His mind a maze of twisted thought, As he unearths what time has wrought. The grave lies silent, a solemn space, But Martin's hands know not of grace, For in his madness, he seeks to find, A bone long buried, left behind. With trembling fingers, he touches the bone, A relic of the past, now his own, But in his triumph, there's no release, Only the echoes of a mind at peace. For Mental Martin, the grave digger's son, His quest for solace has just begun, In the depths of night, he'll always roam, Digging up bones, to find his home.
They say we die twice, the first being our own death, and the second time is when the last person who remembered us dies.. After that, we’re forgotten.
I’ve never heard that before, it’s a little bit poetic and, certainly true and very sad. Unless you’ve achieved some form of greatness or some form of criminal notoriety, you’re just going back to whence you came and what you were made of in life….stardust.
I was a gravedigger at one time in my life. I'm here in the USA and I used to dig cremation burials up to my waist. They used to tell me that I didn't have to go down that far but I did it as a courtesy, it always gave people peace of mind that it was deeper when they saw it. But having to dig through clay dirt with a shovel and not a backhoe to put one of those heavy Wilbert urn vaults was a pain in the ass. I remember one incident where I had to remove a baby who lived for one day and died in Germany and was sent to Michigan in 1978. His mother wanted him cremated and sent to Washington State where she lived and there was nothing left. I would say 98% 99% of his remains were gone, I found one piece of bone that resembled a chicken bone, baby bones are soft. I remember finding his rubber duck and washing that off and getting it ready when I put it in the box to send to Washington State. I remember when I was digging the hole by hand the funeral director was standing there with a bankers box and he said that there's nothing else left. The one thing that didn't disintegrate was a satin ribbon and the string that held the coffin lid but everything else was gone even the wooden box
Glad you were able to find something. We had to do a baby exhumation to move it and found nothing but dirt. The funeral director was there when we dug it and we just did the best we could, and put the dirt from the grave into a baby coffin for reburial. You just do the best you can. Dust to dust.
I had to dig the grave in my family's plot in Minnesota and bury my mothers ashes 12" under the dirt until the grave digger could come back from LaCrosse Wisconsin to finish the job. He dug the grave in a relatives plot. Same family different plot. We had a good laugh, because my mother would have thought it was so outrageous. Plus, i think she would have wanted me to do it.
I used to work in a busy ER and we were also responsible for the hospital morgue. Someone wasn't doing their job and we had accumulated about 20 deceased babies that no one claimed nor was there any staff follow up to get the family to make arrangements for the children. So many were just forgotten. I was assigned with another to clean out the morgue. The babies all dissolved in the plastic bags to a liquid. Most had no form at all, just liquid.
Crazy isn't it. This guy back in the 50s and 60s was going out to the shops, watching TV, driving around possibly. And today this is how he is. It's so simple really but mind boggling at the same time.
I visit Boston a lot and am in awe of how well kept some of the historical cemeteries are. Adding: Salem, Massachusetts has a very well preserved grave of a Pilgrim from the Mayflower. Boston itself has the graves of John Addams, Paul Revere, etc.
Same in the South. I just took holiday poinsettias to the grave of my grandmother (died in the 1950s), and to my great-grandmother (died in the 1920s), and to my great-great grandmother (died in the 1880s), and to my great-great-great grandmother (died in the 1860s).
I wish to visit the Authors' Ridge, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA, one day. Thoreau, Emerson, Alcott and Hawthorne lie there. They are so dear to me.
@@bramlintrent1145 Catholic graveyard I'm assuming? A lot of the well taken care of cemeteries are catholic in NE. They continue to take care of everything.
Just a few decades and your bones just blends with the dirt like nothing, and very few people remain alive to remember you. It's like you never existed.
This depends on the type of soil that you are buried in. With some soils, you're gone in less than a hundred years. In others, you're still around after a thousand.
progmetal: Your message is well taken but there are exceptions. Many people are remembered hundreds and even a thousand or more years post mortem. Orators, composers, authors, painters, entertainers, scientists, architects, military and political leaders. It's a matter of what one has done in life that has had impact on humanity, good or bad.
I find it both fascinating and sad that those brittle old bones are all that's left of what was once a living, breathing person. A person that had dreams and desires. A person with friends and relatives, who knew and loved him, some of whom might still be alive. It would be interesting to know a little about who he was, how old he was when he passed away, what he died from and what he was like when he was alive.
I know (and knew) it's FEMUR not TIBIA. It was a stupid mistake which is now haunting me in every other comment. I like how the comments here are ranging from "how dare you desecrate a grave like that" to "why won't you use a backhoe" and everything in between. What I do here was ordered by the cemetery administration and is a completely normal procedure, done accordingly with the current regulations. For those of you that are outraged by what I do here, please keep in mind that the funeral traditions and procedures may be very different in each country. Reburial is done in many other countries too and no one makes a big deal out of it. In Poland it is normal to deepen the grave like that, with the family of the deceased often ordering such procedure. It has nothing to do with greed or money, like many of you suggest. There's just a lack of space and it has to be dealt with somehow. I don't get any additonal money for that and it is just another task in my job. I treat the remains with respect but some have their own idea how it should be done and believe that their vision is the only right one, when in reality things look completely different than they imagine them to be. Most hateful comments seem to come from the US, where there are lot of cases of bulldozed cemeteries and abandoned funeral homes with the remains and ashes just left there without proper burial. This should be reminded to those who call Poland a shithole third world country because of what we do at our cemeteries. Please educate youself before sending me to hell in your comments. I created a nice little corner of the internet especially for that, which is my FUNERAL PARADISE SUBREDDIT. Check it out! (you don't need an account to browse). Thanks for watching! LINK: www.reddit.com/r/funeralparadise/
I tthink this is one of those jobs where the saying, "It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it" applies. You were only doing your job, and I thought you treated the remains of the deceased with respect. And you doing all of this with a shovel and not a backhoe, must make it quite difficult to do. I also found it to be an interesting thing to watch, party because I didn't realize skeletal remains that are not exposed to the elements (5 or 6 feet underground) would disintegrate that quickly. I thought they and the coffin, even a wooden one, would be better preserved than these were. Although I realize the humidity and temperature do play a role in it but, since I don't know where this is, I don't know how much of a role the conditions affected things. Lastly, I didn't know this was even done, so I thank you for the education, and for doing it in a respectful and dignified manner.
Great job! I know in some countries the family rents plots or vaults for a period of time and the the remains are removed for the next body and either relocated or sent home with the family for decorations in the home. Very interesting job you have! Thanks for sharing..
I've read about this process before. You must live in Germany or Austria, two countries I love by the way, I looked up actor John Banner, and this happened to his grave. It's all because of limited space in these two nations. Nice video. I thought this was done in a nice respectful manner. Thank you for sharing.
@@kimwood3327: That's because you and I are in first world civilized countries. This one being shown is evidently a shit-hole. Where else would they dig up graves because the deceased's families couldn't be blackmailed anymore. 😖
@@carolhutchinson7763 Is Germany, France etc. shithole country? In Germany grave is only paid for 20 years, after this family can buy another 20 years, or grave is getting new tenant . There is no place for new cemeteries.
Sad to see someone exhumed and treated this way. The grave is only 50 years old. I'm from the UK and many cemeteries around my town are many centuries old and all the graves are undisturbed, some are from circa 1700ad. No, it's not illegal and this guy is only doing his job but sad to see all the same...
what would you rather they do? Make it illegal to have burials and dictate that everyone should be cremated from now on? There's no room. UK only has room because of the massive crypts where bodies were just simply stacked the way this guy is doing. It's no different.
Totally agree , you see so many American clips like this ,especially the abandoned mausoleums where the coffins have been dragged out broken into & robbed, the dead should be left to rest & tended to, end of
I have some news for you, burial plots now a days in the UK are basically rented from 25-100 years. You don’t own them, you rent them. When the lease is up they’ll contact any alive family to see if they want to pay for longer.
Why is it sad? Treated what way? All he did was dig, as ordered by the cemetery. Should he have bowed down and worshipped the grave? Should he have sprayed the shovel with holy water before every dig? Should he have given the bones a massage so that this “someone” is treated well, since you claim they aren’t? What are you talking about? It’s dust ridden bones.
Did you watch the whole video? They were reopening the grave to bury another family member. 🙄 He wasn’t evicted. Just buried deeper to allow a new casket.
@@selunea404 I'm not aware of this being a thing in America. There are tons of very old graves still here even when all family are gone. I have dead relatives that have been buried 20 plus years and we never have to keep paying to keep them there. I'm only aware of body removal or putting below new burials in places like the Philippines, China and other countries like that. It seems to be more of an Asian country thing from what I can tell. I don't know every country that does this.
Humidity really makes all the difference in decomp. Many years ago I assisted with an exhumation in a dry, warm desert climate. The remains were 80+ years old at the time, and everything was intact. Even the hair around the skull
I'm a Medical Examimer, Funeral Director & Embalmer. I'm going in a 32oz bronze airtite hermetically sealed casket after being embalmed for long term preservation, then the casket is going into a concrete vauly with a 3,500lb lid that is sealed. The vault is lined with copper & & bronze. They'll pit me 12ft down so my wife can be put on top at about 9ft down in the same as I then another can go on top at 6-7ft. We did it with my grandfather and when we moved him to a new cemetery 25 years later, I bought a new vault because we couldn't get it up. When the casket was opened he was just as he was the day I closed and sealed his casket. My grandmother had people come fir 2 days to view him one last time before reburial in the new family plot. Her parents looked just as good after 63 years. Dr. Gennaro G. Giammarino, III
Thank you for writing. I always wonder what's the point of doing all that from a philosophical perspective. I want to be decomposed as soon as possible so I have no idea what the people on the other side of the fence are motivated by by doing all that. Shouldn't organic matter naturally return to the circle of life as mother nature intended?
Ya can't tell me that bodies buried for that long look completely "fresh" like when buried. After decades in the ground all bodies will dehydrate and decompose.
Why though ? I could perhaps understand if you were being viewed for eternity as our mummies that are on display but otherwise why all the trouble and expense ?
They're not letting us rest forever in peace... i can not believe that there is not enough space for us under the ground on this planet after we die...so sad that they just move the remains because no one paid for that spot...this system is killin' me, but the people that decides so are burried in nicest graves and they'll probably never be disturbed.
@@westerlywinds5684 They don't want to have the space. Show me a Country that has no wreckage buildings, ruins,etc... That were forgotten for decades and they could collapse 'em, tell me small countries with no clear land where they illegally store garbage because coruption's lvl is too high and they won't separate, recycle, instead of burning it? There's always enough field! Its just the lack of caring! We keep downgrading for money, respect principies are left behind.
@@westerlywinds5684 the UK is a small crowded country but your buried their for eternity, this must be some tin pot shit hole of a country showing so little respect!
In some countries, you rent cemetery plots for certain lengths of time to decompose and then your remains will be cremated and retuned to the family. I imagine that is what is going on here
@Xavier Sullivan Okay, that may be, but 52 years? A body decomposes long before that, and there is no mention of the body being returned to family. I just don't think this was a magnanimous act by the cemetery.
I was tasked with helping excavate an old early 20th century graveyard. Most looked like the remains in the video, and some looked well preserved, especially the ones we found in porcelain sealed coffins. I mean their skin was leathery, but they were still noticeable of the person they were when alive. Some weren't even bones yet
In the old days, some of the wealthier families used like a marble or porcelain material for the casket instead of wood. There weren't many of these caskets there as they were super expensive. They have/had porcelain characters on the marble tomb. Some had wooden caskets inside a marble looking vault with porcelain entrusted letters etc. A couple were made entirely of super thick porcelain that sustained through the years. How's it seem so far-fetched?
@@nick56677 I am going to encourage you to look up porcelain caskets which are small boxes to hold trinkets there is no way anyone would use porcelain for a body in a grave, it breaks easily. The marble caskets are also small boxes for trinkets, very very few caskets were ever made from marble even for the most famous of people and marble coffins are called sarcophagus, the reason people are not buried in marble is because gases can build up inside and explode.
I have a morbid curiosity for things like this, I've always wondered how things look under ground after years of being buried. Incredibly interesting and educational. Thank you for sharing.
Everyone has a job to do, I live in the U.S. and I am appalled at how some of our cemeteries are abandoned and bodies left behind such disregard and disrespect brings me to tears at the sight of it. Don’t let people get in your head just because they don’t understand the ways of your country doesn’t make it wrong. It takes a person of strength of character to do what you do.
Just curious, but why dig him up just to put him right back in the same place, just a couple inches deeper? And another question, how do you know where people are if you put someone else on top of them? Is there a way y'all know so that possible descendants can visit or know later on
The cemetery I worked at here in the US did not require burial vaults until after 1955. When it comes to remains that are left it's probably about the same as what you see here. They had a removal one time, the burial was in a wooden box from about 1930 and there was no bone, there was nothing left.
My great great grandparents were missionaries who used to visit India. My great great grandmother died there because of an illness when she was just in her 30’s. It must have been sometime in the 1800’s, and her grave is still there.
I find your job quite interesting. I think Americans have 'problems' because most areas have plenty of room and don't need to re-use grave space, but I could be wrong. I enjoy seeing the different ways other cultures interact with their dead - some are quite fascinating. Thank you for sharing
@@jimbo6693 I wouldn't go that far. Different cultures have different norms about death and burials. Renting grave sites is a centuries old practice in many parts of Europe. This isn't vandalism. He's not disrespectful. He's taking care with the remains. I do understand how this evolved. You also have to remember in North America we have space to spare for gravesites. Europeans don't. In many places in Europe the center median on limited access highways is planted with crops because anywhere there is farmable land you have to use it. By reusing grave sites they aren't taking up more and more land needed for other uses.
@@jimbo6693 what's your problem? He's not grave robbing or anything. It's his job, mandated by the city he's working for. Totally legal and quite the norm in Europe. 20 years you're in a grave these days, that's it.
@@twinsonic What's my problem.?? Think your the one with the problem mate. And as for "your only allowed 20 yrs in a grave in Europe" that's rubbish mate. There would be uproar if people were routinely exhumed after 20 years to make way in the grave for other people. And not just that it's the act itself. Digging up someone's nearest and dearest from their final resting place like their some kind of landfill. That would never happen here in the UK or any other civilised country mate it's called "consecrated ground". Your obviously some kind of ghoul. I'd ask you what "your problem is" if he was digging your mother up you muppet.
@@jimbo6693 By the time my great grandfather had his time up, nobody was left alive who remembered him or wanted to pay rent on the plot anymore. Money is for the living. If it twists your knickers that much, please go to Denmark on my behalf & pay for my great grandfathers continued enjoyment of his pushing up daisy's. I will give you the info.
@@eileensorensen2414 No thanks I'm sure your the type of person who's enjoy digging him up yourself and maybe making a small stool or other household items out of his bones. You lot really are in need of some help.. Sad
I totally appreciate your video of this re-burial. It's amazing how basically everything turns into mere dust after we die and there is little to no smell left. Thanks for sharing this awesome video.
It gives literal meaning "From dust you came, and to dust you will return. " Gen 3:19 It is very humbling to know that maybe one day someone will dig anyone of us up. It's hard to think of what will be there. This was only in 58 years. I'm 55 now. It's mind blowing.
This was so interesting! While watching I was thinking of my grandparents, morbid as it seems it was comforting! It's so cool that pile of bones used to have a family, friends etc. Life is such a strange thing!
So sad so sweet. Dear old person. A whole life. So long ago. That was very touching to me. Thank you it was fascinating. You work very hard. Take care of yourself.
I was born in the 1950s and lost a parent when a very young baby. I've considered being buried in the same plot but wondered what would be left of the original casket and body so this was very helpful. Thank You.
This seems brutal when you are someone like me who comes from a place where burial is expected to be perpetual. It doesn't make it any better when you consider this person's grave was essentially erased due to non-payment. However, having travelled a bit, I have seen that this is more common than people think. And it makes sense too. Eventually, you run out of space for the dead and room needs to be made. It's just difficult to get over the sacrilege of it all. In a way, this adds to Hemingway's observation that you die twice; first when you're buried, and then the last time someone says your name. But now add, the day you are evicted from you plot for non payment and your headstone obliterated as you are discarded like dust under a rug.
As "disintegrated" as the remains/bones were after only 52 years, it makes me wonder how medieval grave bones are so well preserved in archeological digs, from 500 years ago (or even much longer)!
The critical factors in the decomposition of a body is the type of soil and moisture level. In environments with regular rain and snow, the process proceeds much more quickly. Drier conditions in sandy ‘soils’ significantly slow decomposition.
I would never have guessed that clothing outlasts bones. I've always thought of cloth as biodegradable, but the sock you dug up (after 50+ years) looked almost fresh.
Had recently visited the largest municipal cemetery in the UK- Southern Cemetery of Manchester, it's really amazing to see how these graveyards are maintained so well and how the bodies of the deceased families can be accommodated together, really commendable job Martin and many other Martins out there.
This is genuinely so beautiful and comforting, to see there's barely anything left of him. Nothing gruesome or sad about it, just a guy crumbling away and turning into soil as it should be, as nature intended. I want to be put underground too when I pass, if possible even without a casket, to become food for the environment and return to the soil and to the cycle of life in that way. The thought of being put in a burial niche or in some other kind of concrete building above ground really terrifies me, it feels claustrophobic
Incredible to see how much the body has decomposed after 50+ years. Even the casket is gone! It goes to show we will all eventually return to nature. Thanks for the cool and informative video!
Decomposition depends _a lot_ on the type of ground or soil. In some cases there may be hardly any or even no decomposition at all if it's dense clay because there is little to no oxygen. There have been cases of Victorian grave exhumations with the deceased still being totally intact in near perfect clothes.
Very true! Frost, permafrost, different types of soil, dampness or dryness of the soil, different geographical climates, etc. As for skeletal remains, they usually start breaking down 80+ years after burial. It also depends on the type of casket, if there was a casket liner, if the casket was sealed, etc. I know a coroner who exhumed over 50 bodies from a cemetery that was being demolished. Let's just say that he told me he'd never do it again. Not all bodies are decomposed as well as the one in this video.
Peat marshes or bogs preserve bodies due to the lack of oxygen and high acid pH levels similar to vinegar, it preserves human bodies and other organic material in the same way as fruit is preserved by pickling. Tollund Man, Grauballe Man and Lindow Man date to the Iron Age. Tollund man’s features were so well preserved that the was mistaken for a recent murder victim.
How is that we find skeletons that are thousands of year old and they're in pristine shape, but yet this person has only been dead for half a century and there's virtually nothing left?
Respect, you did a beautiful, very professional job. I found it oddly comforting to see how little is left of a human body after just 50 years. To my mind this confirms what a pointless luxury burial is, with land at a premium. Better to be cremated - we ultimately end up as dust, anyway!
Great video. When my sister was buried, the funeral home told ua they found either some remains or a urn.They ask us what we wanted to do and i told them to put it back. My sister never met a stranger so i don't think she minded. I think it was the right thing to do. Here in Texas, we have lots of burying space, so we never have to rent a space. I understand why it has to be done when space is limited.
Thank you so much for giving me a glimpse of what's to come (I'm 73 y.o.)-I've taken so much from the earth in terms of food and enjoyment throughout my life; it will be good to give something back.
Paddle: Depending how you are buried. You are not going to give anything back to the earth if your body is encased in a cement vault, so think of going "green" or cremation and scattering.
Dead can we be long time, but not for eternally. There shall come a day, when all who`s dead shall rise again, to get judged by GOD and to move to exist/live either into heaven or into hell fire. The same with the living now. The only difference with the living is, not all are going to rest in dust. 1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 2 Corinthians 5:10 - For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Hebrews 9:27 - And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
That dude passed away in 1970, that's been awhile, I was 8 years old at the time. I can't believe you had to dig the fella up, because time ran out on his deathbed, that's some BS. Hey! nice job with that Shovel work, and digging up them bones!!
@@matthewblackwood4704 here in the Philippines it has 😁 especially in the public cemetery you only have 10yrs to stay and the rent will start if you can't afford to pay they will remove the tenant inside and put it on a large cross located inside the cemetery where all bones are there 😅 creepy isn't it? but that's how it works 😁
As I see this presentation your dedication after the exhumation is commendable and compassionate. Well done sir . The whole presentation was done fine. No complaints from myself .
Great video thank you for sharing it with us. I will definitely be watching more of your fantastic videos. What I also liked about your videos was you explained everything very well. Cheers good job. 😎👍
Just so you know the bone you showed us was the femur bone with the femoral head (hip bone) intact. I grew up at a funeral home in America and I've often wondered if one day the current graves would have to be emptied for new cases as there's only so much room in our fast growing world. Oh how I wish I could see into the future as my precious grandma is interred there as are a few of my relatives. I wonder how it would work in the United States. This has been a very educational video and I thank you for making it.
Fantastic video, thank you, im a Funeral Director for just over 20 years now here in England UK. my mate is the gravedigger for us on contract, ive witnessed this when visited him digging, taking him a flask of coffee. Good job done here
Not entirely true. In most states there are laws governing how long a grave can be used. If you read the fine print in most cemetery contracts, the plot is safe for up to 50-100 years. But if the cemetery is abandoned or the company goes bankrupt? Then all bets are off for what happens to the graves and the headstones. I used to make decent money as a young man relocating graves for relatives that companies could get in touch with. If the new owners couldn't get in touch with someone, the bodies were exuded and cremated. The vaults were crushed aand all the unclaimed bodies ashes would be placed in another cemetery as a common grave site or a community garden spot.
When I went to Germany to work, I was in the same area as my ancestors from 300 years before. I didn't know about grave recycling. I had hoped I'd be able to find a family member's grave, but they were all long gone.
That was a fantastic video. I helped dig a grave for a child who had died in a churchyard where the stones did not match the charts, and we ended up reaching the brother of the child who had died a few years before. Fortunately the casket was in good shape and the hole was shifted to make room.
Abraham Lincoln, who died in 1865, was the victim of a plot to steal his remains in Illinois and hold them for ransom in 1876. The coffin was removed, but they did not take it away. As a result, plans were made to bury him in Washington DC at the planned Lincoln Memorial. Since he was on the surface again, they opened his coffin to honor and check on him. It was said that he looked just as he did when he was buried 11 years prior, because he had been embalmed several times after he died and made a rail tour of the cities along the route from Illinois to DC. A flag placed upon his chest had disintegrated to red, white and blue bits of cloth.
I had wondered how cemeteries handled the issue of running out of space, especially in smaller countries where space can be very limited. Very interesting
I don't agree with disturbing someone after they're buried but if you must I'm glad there are people like you that take there time and do it carefully and as with much respect for the remains.
Does the body you buried deeper still have a marker, or headstone? Or is it discarded? Also, do the family of the new corpse know there is someone else lurking beneath? I've never heard of this before. Seems a bit sad. Great video.
The tombstone or the marker for the previous body is discarded. It just stays in the books. The family of the current body knows everything. You got me chuckle with the 'lurking' thing. Thanks!
In the United States, it's called grave stacking. Different states have different laws about it, mostly having to do with the age of the grave. It's more common around large cities. The city of New Orleans has a high water table which makes burial below ground difficult. In a lot of cemeteries there, an individual is given an above ground crept for a number of years, less than ten. After that time, their bones are removed and put into a vault and a new individual is given the crept for their burial.
@@barbaratankersley7117: This is common in Europe. Read the story of John Banner's grave ( Sgt. Schultz of Hogan's Heroes.) Some countries exhume bones after a number of years to use reuse the grave. The bones are then buried in a common grave.
I think it takes a lot of guts (no pun intended) to dig up bodies even years after they've been buried. I think I too have this morbid curiosity to wonder who even after 20 years, what a body looks like while it's been buried, even inside a casket and concrete tomb.
Sorry that you catch so many rude comments, especially by people from my country (U.S.). As you said, each country and culture is different. The human body wasn't designed by our Creator to last for long after death. All that matters, the soul and spirit, are immediately gone the instant we die. Personally, I will be cremated, which means there will just be powder and a few tiny bone fragments left. When the end of time gets here, God will be able to give us new bodies to reconnect with our spirits/souls and it won't matter if there is just one tiny speck of DNA left. You have a service to render and thank you for doing it and for sharing with those of us who have never seen the bottom of a previously used human resting place.
Not really, I have seen numerous videos of cemeteries pave over and made into parking lots with the bones still there, ...big money for land you see. I live in a housing subdivision situated right next to a church and the subdivision has the exact dimensions of a nice cemetery though there is no proof I have found out that it once was,...if true,...haha, who knows what is down deep in the dirt, and besides I rent.
@@westerlywinds5684 Ive seen in Mexico where bodies were evicted from graves and vaults, put in garbage bags and just piled elsewhere in the cemetery. This although odd to me seems so much more respectable. Myself, Ill be cremated.
Homer City Generating Station Unit 3 is built upon an ancient Native burial ground. I used to go there 40 years ago and that unit had problems nobody could rationally explain. Disturbing the dead is a task not to be taken lightly.
Poland is an old country , lots of people , not much room..This is a very sensible solution. If I'm as dead as that guy it won't worry me in the least if they move me. God will know where I am and that's all that matters
You might want to do some research on that. Grave stacking is legal in America. In some places, you don't even have to remove the bodies before you build on a cemetery. There's a subdivision in San Francisco that was built on 60,000 graves. San Francisco is will known for building over its cemeteries.
@@angiemanges7945 It’s a question of respect for the sanctity of the human experience. Did you notice that nowadays, dead people are chopped-up and sold for spare parts? And that frozen babies are kept for years in case they’re needed? If they’re not, they get destroyed. So why not violate graves? These deliberate insults against man’s essential sacredness is designed to convince everyone that people aren’t sacred, and that life itself isn’t sacred. If nothing is sacred, then we can gladly sink to the depths of human depravity. Drugs, violence, tattoos, homosexuality, and widespread mental illness. Is that part of our “visit” to Earth? Earth is our home. It’s not temporary. And our lives can only be as good as the sense of pride and honor that we have in who we are, and what we do. So if we’re to be an honorable society, then mustn’t trample upon the memory of our forebears. Their dignity is a symbol of our heritage; and commitment to the idea of excellence as a way of life.
dead people dont have conscience or awareness as all of their nervous system has rotted away so i wouldnt really call it resting, and how do you turn relocating a mans remains into sex and drugs what is wrong with you?
Another good reason for cremation. I live in Idaho, my dad's ashes are spread upon his favorite mountain, in one of his favorite places upon that mountain. It's a very very small clearing with a nearby creek rushing by, and surrounded by aspens and lodge pole pine. Plus there is a very large white with black flecks quartz rock almost in the center of the approx. 20 foot round clearing. The rock is egg shaped and stands about 4 feet high. My siblings and I can see the mountain from our homes, and it acts as our dad's memorial. A man who loved the little mountain lakes up there and all the other little nooks and crannies of the area...where he camped, hiked, fished, and hunted. And for many years in the 1970's cut trees for post and poles...he spent a lot of his life up there working hard, and playing hard and often just relaxing : )
I heard about this happening in other countries. In America, you would not even get close to an open grave without everything being paid for up front. Why I am contemplating cremation myself. Too many abandoned cemeteries abound. One I grew up down the block from is now a dog run and greenhouse.
@@JTScott1988 wtf is wrong with you ? And this coming from a black life's matter account ???? It's not a rental place In this case as right now you can't do that because it's a disrespect to these people and their families and to life
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. They say once you leave this earth you don't care about earthly things, including your old shell. Video done well and with respect, Thank you, I learned something new today.
Omg, I love you already. Second video, and I'm laughing at the end because you're finally eating your banana after playing in human bones for the day! While in my last years of highschool, I had the opportunity to disect a cows heart! I loved it. It was as big as a pumpkin, and I greatly enjoy medical sciences. The girl I was paired with, not so much. She threw up. Lol. Funny thing was, I had my picture taken that class, because I got my hand trapped in a ventricle and couldn't pull it back out! Chinese finger trap style! Teacher yells from the other side if the room, "Use your other hand!" I told him I couldn't, I was too busy eating a grenola bar with that one! 🤣
Fascinating! This was nicely done! Thanks for posting. I always wondered what happens to the bodies. It's good to know remains are put back and not tossed somewhere.
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