Grave Exhumation 2/4 Changing Tombs Documentary

[Mistercharming]

worried about disease? Hmmm, why isn't anyone wearing atleast gloves?

[KingVictor1st]

Eww who would wanna live where a graveyard was, thats how u get haunted houses and buildings

[HotPinkBrightOrange]

@KingVictor1st I was thinking the same thing. :(

[Al123456ize]

@KingVictor1st HA its no that bad where i used to live the graveyard was not even a block away in fact i could walk there and be there in less then 30 seconds (my sister buried there) and the houses aren't haunted. for some reason its more peaceful living by a grave yard because the people are looking over you.

[RFKFANTS67]

what most don't know, that here in North America, Cement vaults unless plastic lined, weep and alow fluids to escape in and out. After 10 years the cement becomes brittle and pourous. I know because I worked in a large cemetery. And I loved the job! I wish these guys were here, I'd go work for them.

[lovejumping2011]

Back east in the states we had grave robbers in the 19th century.It was a horrble disgusting practice.We've been lucky out in the west because the practice became illegal by the time of the move west at it's heyday.

[kellyv70]

Some of these people are not wearing gloves when they handle the remains. I find that very irresponsible, with all the talk of diseases.

[azariablack]

seems like no one has any respect for anything these days and the especially includes the dead. the dead are treated as if they dont matter and they can be easily desposed of why cant the living kindly sod off and go and build some where else or are they all to greedy for that

[lovejumping2011]

@azariablack I completely agree with you.We need old fashioned respect back in this world for everyone and that includes the dead.The living are arrogant and unaware that the dead know what's going on.We shiould never be absolutely sure of death because it's a door not the end.

[azariablack]

@lovejumping2011 i really wish people have more respect for things especially the dead i mean just because they are no longer alive does not mean that they dont deserve respect. i know that there are a few good people who respect others but i dont think alot of people today care about anything but themselves sadly we live in a culture where its all me me me where other people and their feelings dont come in to consideration.thanks for agreeing :)

[MrPenfold84]

Due to the build of gases in the early stages of decomposition, the lead liner in most cases can perforate leading to an escape of various diseases and gases. Although the lead should resist this, it's not always the case due to the tremendous pressure over time. The only legacy that will be present to the modern day exhumer's will be a slight trace of musty timber and some slight odour's of the corpse!. Mainly impregnated on the burial shroud and timber. But nothing like a fresh corpse.

[NorthEuropean]

Why build on new land? You just have to build vertical :D

[lovejumping2011]

@NorthEuropean Good point!

[MrPenfold84]

After a century or more of in a sealed coffin, any traces of smallpox, TB and other nasties will long have dissipated. It's a typical stupid case of over the top health and safety coming into play with things they don't have concrete facts!!

* Source*

Doctor.

[logik316]

@MrPenfold84

But if the casket is still sealed and intact (as with the case of lead coffins which don't rot away), then exactly how and where would the pathogens dissipate?

[lovejumping2011]

@MrPenfold84 They speculate too much.It's like a 21 century obsession.

[MrPenfold84]

@lovejumping2011 Yes, indeed. Too much health and stupid safety procedures.

[lovejumping2011]

@MrPenfold84 It's like there's so much fear.The illnesses those bodies had are long gone.The living cary far worse illnesses.If they want to move dead people I think they should look for any relatives and ask about it.Things get pretty botched up I think when it comes to knowledge of disease and the dead.

[mrmojorisin291278]

i want to be cremated after watching this, it makes me feel quite ill thinking my body will rot away to nothing but a manky skeleton not nice at all. Death is a horrable part of life and the only thing you can be 100% certain of. So i want things done to my wishes and specifications.

[majorferret]

@mrmojorisin291278 ,a 'manky' skeleton? i like that!

[lovejumping2011]

@mrmojorisin291278 Isn't there any land in the UK which is perminent for a cemetary? We have donations and forever care in my town of Turlock and other parts of California.E bverything looks worse in a video

[lovejumping2011]

@mrmojorisin291278 They weren't embalmed or put in vaults.It makes a big difference,

[beaupedraza]

"cutting profits back to the bone" ahahahahahaahahaha

good one, narrator. (4:15)

[Jcsharitz]

People who died 150 years ago really don't need to be taking up valuable land in city centers. They dont mind being moved.

[bluesgunner]

Anyone know what the song at the end of the clip was?

[Threetails]

Also, the G.A. Walker book mentioned here is available for download from Google Books, for those morbidly-minded readers. It has intriguing and very descriptive chapter titles such as "Fatal occurrence on the banks of the Tigris, from the effluvium of a corpse accidentally exposed."

[Threetails]

Exhumation is pretty common around the world and the US is no different. In a few centuries all these spacious cemeteries will look really good to developers.

Unless you're lucky enough to have decomposed peacefully in an out-of-the-way location, the men with the shovels will come for you too. Burial at sea or cremation is your best bet for an undisturbed rest.

[mustang9181]

I dont think moving bodies is the proper thing todo. once their there. they should be there. I feel that is so wrong. People looking ata bodies of dead after being gone for such a long time. I feel it is just wrong.

[dannywhac]

If they didn't move the bodies (all of which are handled with respect, fully recorded and re-buried), then they'd eventually be destroyed anyhow - as it was the crypt area had started to collapse, several of the lead-lined coffins had been opened and skulls removed etc. Also take into account that a lot of the coffins in the crypt had been moved there from outside the church in the first place when it was decomissioned. I know as I'm on the vid ;)

[liarsclub75]

All you people complaining about the exhumation need to realize that this isn't done on a whim. There are good reasons to move these bodies and permission to do so has to go through several channels. Do you think it would be better that these graves were destroyed by vandals or washed up by heavy rains?

As far as for being someone's loved ones, those loved ones most likely are long gone as well.

[mustang9181]

that is true but I dont want to go to the cemetery were I visit my great grandparents and see there plot all dug up. I dont feel thats right. If that were to happen here. I would demand them to removed to a different cemetery

[BCAD01]

I think the dead should be left where they are.....

[jujubean54ify]

Composting as perfected by the Swedes-sort of a freeze-drying- is the answer. Cremains are not nutritious to the soil, and much energy is consumed during the cremation process.

[kingcarcas1349]

How do you become an expert in "cemetery management?"

[vincemealfull]

@TudorRose85 Sorry to respond to such an old post, but you obviously know nothing about the US cemetery industry and the corruption that goes on in many US cemeteries. If you think 200-300 years from now, those graves will still be intact, well I have a gold plated coffin to sell you. At least the British (at least in this case) are being open and honest about what they have to do here. Space is a huge problem in England and Japan. They really do not have a choice in the matter.

[jsbeard18]

at 5:00 is that a Persian Zoroastrian farahvar symbol?

[giseledenault]

at 4:52 a Orb passes below the cross on it's right side.

[ltuomela]

ha! the english are always paranoid..lol..infact they should be able to battle alot of these illnesses as it spawned from the U.K..i mean really..great turtle island.."the Americas" as its known now,was not even disease ridden until the english landed...but thats nor here or there i guess...sheeesh

[WorldTributes]

For those about to exhume we salute you!

[lddcreepykid]

Very interesting, and i like to see the older style shop/office , i purpose it was recorded in the 80's back when Life different! lol

I think, to be buried under an old tree, and then over the years and decade's, the root system would crash and suck the nutrient out.

But since they are getting rid of the cemetery's it looks in London, there will be no old trees, an less u would leave a will and testament that would state, a special place.

sigh!

[papaosj89]

I'd rather be burried right after death wrapped in a blanket , that way i decompose easily and give back to the soil naturally---without hazardous embalming chemicals leaking out of me.

[ManuOB1]

Actually an embalmed body will only last a few years at best, depending on ground and casket conditions. Only the ancient Egyptians knew the science of perpetual mummification and that might be environmrntal as well.

[Knorpel77]

My problem with this is the deletion of the past when doing so in big scale. What is Britain without it's old churches and graveyards? It's loosing face, and it's loosing its connection to it's ancestors.

[slamminhole69]

bleh i don't really relish the idea of someone rummaging through my bones 200 years from now, and i don't want to turn into a gross creepy skeleton. this is why i will most likely want to be cremated when my time comes. no sense sitting in the ground hogging up space anyway

[veriddian]

Wow, this is amazing! Thanks so much for posting.

[Genevee1]

wonder how many ghosts were watching them

[jamielynnp24]

On the other hand, I don't agree on exhuming bodies just to build a library, store, college or anything else for that matter. I feel that once the bodies are there, (and they don't need to be moved to make room for the newly dead) they should stay there!

[brnleague99]

@jamielynnp24 Thank you. I couldn't have said it any better.

[Bouchon211]

@jamielynnp24 Agreed... and why buy a plot to be dug up and done who knows what with 100 years later.

[logik316]

@jamielynnp24

The world belongs to the living. Real estate is at a premium in some countries, and it's not as if people can just make more of it. If a grave is so old that it's occupant no longer has any friends or family alive to remember and tend to it, then I say it's fair game for re-use. It's better than letting it become neglected and vandalized, in any case.

[lovejumping2011]

@logik316 The world belongs to everyone including the dead.Disrespecting the dead shows the world has gone mad.People need a sense of history.So why don't they get someone to take care of the graveyard? I can see why they might have to move them for but do it with dignity.

[lovejumping2011]

@jamielynnp24 I don't either.They should be there to rest in peace.It's like now everythinhg is for temporary or thoughtless reasons.There's so much to learn from the old cemeteries.In the US we have saved lots of battle fields over the years but people had to really wake up about it.

[jamielynnp24]

On one hand, I kind of understand relocating bodies. People are going to be dying forever. The world is going to run out of places. Where do you bury the newly dead if people that died 300 years ago are buried there? While I think it is wrong to move someone after they have been buried, what other choice is there? Eventually when we die and are buried (if we chose that route) we too will be moved in centuries to come. I hate to think of it that way, but it is reality.

[Mintaka55]

Totally creepy! Great video post!

[davotheframer]

I worked as a funeral director years ago, the sight of decomposed bodies one gets quickly used to, but the smell is cloying & very hard to take. it stays on your clothes, long afterwards.

what was also creepy, was italian vault exhumation, a lot of the bodies are preserved with formaldehyde, & even after decades- remain in near perfect condition (sometimes there will be a layer of greyish mould on their face if climate conditions are damp)

[catlover75]

Does the body of a deceased "decompose" faster if your not embalmed, or does it matter?

[davotheframer]

A properly embalmed body will not decompose.

Whether it matters or not, is entirely respective of your

religious beliefs or wishes. (or if the corpse has to be transported over a long distance)

[adriannippy]

Well, If I paid a lot of money to get the body of a loved one embalmed and it doesnt .... I'll be SO PISSED . :)

[darthsideous1968]

Of course this bloke at Necropolis is "Over the moon" b'cuz hes raking in millions of Pounds for digging up bodies.

[socialcrimeradio]

Ick, well good thing I have these smoked spare ribs to distract me from this.......

[Cytacon]

Very few would be able to stomach this job.

[TeeLuvsEire]

I would love to sit and chat to you of an evening Ghostwatching. I would say that you are a world of information lol !

Another really interesting video. Great work uploading !! ~ Tee

[homer4556]

Even the dead can,t rest today.

This is all wrong and sad for that 1 year old.

Just show there no fecking respect today

[eal1011]

Is very disrepectful to take bodies out because of increase space. Deaf bodies should be respected and left alone no changes to be made.

[Petedang]

Deaf Bodies?

[cupcake4206969]

life is for the living! them corpses need to move over and make room for the rest of us whether their "deaf" or dead..i would see your point if this person had relatives who still cared and it being hurtful to their living relatives but their gone.. and if i want a condo built and they're in the way,,, well then they'd better move the fuck over too! don't mean to be disrespectful, just tellin it how it is. so relax baby, i aint mad atcha!

[cupcake4206969]

money makes the world go round! them dead learned it.. n you should learn it too!

[randomdave30]

I disagree! Dead bodies after a certain age aren't sacred. They're just old dead tissues that are best disposed of in a fire! Do you really care about corpses? Would you take one home?

[TeeLuvsEire]

lol. I think they mean when they, you or I die, we would wish to be left alone and not have our bodies thrown about. Not that we will be aware of it...but u get the point.

[randomdave30]

Dead bodies are rubbish

[slamminhole69]

man it's just bones, the person has already moved on anyway, they have no use for those old bones anyway

[ColumRogers]

I lived a couple of streets away from a cemetry and the cemetry wasn't dug up it was pratically ripped out of the ground. The workers threw the bodies in bags and they did not care that they left bits lying around. This was about 5 yrs ago now but it caused and still causes anger among the living relatives and residents like myself.

They built a fucking carpark on the site. What a waste.

[TeeLuvsEire]

wow, really ? so not so careful like in the documentary? They really were thrown away like rubbish. nice.

[mhirtes12]

Even in death, the rich & greedy won't leave people alone, who worked hard to buy their own resting places. Now they get robbed once again.

I hope these grave evictors end up getting piled up in a landfill just like their victims.

[WINDHAMMAN]

they cant be too worried about diseases the diggers are working bare handed -no protective gloves or respiratory masks-touching bones and gook-no respect for the dead

[RichyReef]

I'm in the UK but the comment "cemetary moved for widening of a road " REALLY annoyed me!!!! :(( Widen the road somewhere else or redirect for fuck sake. I'd imagine the cemetary was there first!! I have family who have been buried and cremated and i'd be absolutly furious if a family grave was moved!!!!! I'm NOT condoning the people in the business as such as they have a job many wouldnt do and I have the utmost respect for them. Lincoln tower falling down, ok, but not for road widening :(

[garycalgary]

i agree bodies should not be moved for road widening

[mirrorwednesday]

La voz del calvo con bigote si que es de ultratumba....xDDD

The old greaveyars are soooo beatifull...and all those graveyars are destroying...:-(

The new graveyars are sooo uglies...

[munichlady]

This sort of thing does not happen if you

decide, as any civilised person would do, to be cremated.

[helmuthoorn]

Cutting profits BACK TO THE BONE

[Mekhaman]

..."juicy market" gross LOL

[the412crusader]

I think that this should be mostly outlawed here in the US where we have plenty of space. But over in the UK, where people have lived much longer and the land area is much smaller, I can understand.

[cayenne212]

I agree with you KINGKENNYTHEHOLY.

[AquarianAscent]

I find it quite sad that eventually there will be no really old graves left in London. I actually find it quite interesting to have a wander in a graveyard and read the stones, and the older they are, the more interesting it is.

[ltuomela]

@AquarianAscent well what do you expect man the U.K is very small..a example of humans out growing this planet..cremation is the only way now..but yes old tomb stones are fascinating i must agree..i still see 1700's here in the states..

[Pupdawg9724]

@AquarianAscent

that is if you can still read it.

[tandis97]

@AquarianAscent things dont last forever. but they make sure the people do. by changing burial places.

[KINGKENNYTHEHOLY]

wow fascinating...

Sick that the grave situation in England was so appalling as they talk about abt. 5.30 ,heads and skin sticking up,people recognizing their brothers wedding rings,children playing with heads :O ..these boys actually have performed an important task.