The Joy of Cemeteries

[etienne818]

Thanks for the wonderful commentary/report. If you ever get to Buffalo, NY, (USA) you'll find a marvellous place called Forest Lawn. Wonderful artistry and scenery! Over many dozens of acres which date from the early-to-mid 1800's to the the present - you'll even find a former US president there. My dear dad is resting in Forest Lawn too - in the veterans area - him being from the WW II era. Thanks for your post! Cheers! Greetings from Niagara, Canada!

[sirdidymus62]

It's an amazing coincidence, I was thinking about when I was at Whitby (three times now, one of my favorite places) just a few seconds before the message appeared in this video about it.

Good video, it was really interesting.

[NeonEvanescence1]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING, I AGREE CEMETERIES ARE A GREAT PASTIME TO VISIT. I WISH MORE SAW THEM FOR HISTORY AND NOT SCARY. I WISH MORE HAD THIS POINT OF VIEWS.

[EhSteve8690]

I'm just waiting for an epitaph that says "Born on a Monday..."

[Chrisindapurplehouse]

I was at this cemetary in Ambleside and there was this quaker section and as a symbol of equality all their graves are flat as no man or woman is above another

[Chrisindapurplehouse]

I noticed a great deal of masonic symbols on the graves in our town showing a much larger masonic community there than i thought there was atleast in the past I'm not a free mason myself but I've always found it to be an interesting subject

[Chrisindapurplehouse]

Cemetaries are very nostalgic for obviously due to rememberence of the dead but also a big part is the cemetary on my aunts road where I spent most of my childhood it had the best tree to climb lush field to play football disrespectfully using graves as goal posts fully og dens and hiding places and it had just the right level of creepiness to make it the main hange out place for me and my friends

[Octavius0]

I thoroughly agree

[tomcat2222]

I like going to Cemeteries as well, but it isn't just for the reasons you have listed. I like reading the names of those dead, and in that way honoring their passage... Because for some of them, their families have now died out, and/ or forgotten them (for better or worse). As you mentioned with piecing together, you can sometimes find forgotten diseases that swept through towns, just by seeing how an entire family died the same week, month, day or year. Great video. Good luck with more.

[182grain]

My entire family thinks i am totally weird because i like going to Cemeteries, it's nice to know there are other people out their that also like them.

[MattTheCat777]

Dynamic Interview composition for the Kerepesi cemetery. All the shots are great, but that one is reeallly friggin dynamic.

[thecutthatneverheals]

I though this video was "The Joy of Centimeters" I was thinking it was about damn time someone celebrated the metric system.

I guess we'll just have to wait for someone to step up and do that one.

[quicke47]

Not just all of the big cemeteries are amazing, some of the small ones are quite unique in themselves.

[Fortramnasdaq]

There's a cemetery in Slovenia well worth seeing called Žale. It is just outside Ljubljana and has a lot of architecture designed by Jože Plečnik. massively different styles of mortuary monument all over.

[lindybeige]

@Fortramnasdaq I may well be in Ljubliana within the year. Thanks for the tip.

[DontcallmeFrenchy]

I visited Antietam battlefield in northern Virginia, and while I got a lot of very nice photos out of it, my favorite parts by far were the military cemetery and a small, probably private, civilian plot just in the center of the battlefield.

[23Stork]

Whitby! I assume you weren't there for goth weekend?

[lindybeige]

@23Stork The weekend before: living history WW2 display in daytime and swing dance at night. I'm unsure that I could successfully combine gothshipdomhood and my level of beige.

[Nebelung13]

If you ever visit Lisbon, go for the Cemitério dos Prazeres. Amazing stuff.

[Whitefang8128]

You've doomed us all! Every image of an angel becomes an angel!

[Estonian7]

Your interesting.

[DistendedPerinium]

If you are ever in the Pacific Northwest, visit the Vancouver, Washington area. There are tons of what we call "stamp cemeteries". These are tiny plots from settlers that have sometimes as few as half a dozen graves in them. There are a few around the town I live in as well, but not nearly as much as the Vancouver area. They are really interesting to visit.

[JtheCrowe]

I went to the Cementerio General de Santiago when I was in Chile with my family. Amazing

[thetasters]

Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn NY is quite beautiful as well. Whenever you get over here you should check it out.

[johndharvey]

I can just imagine being on a trip with friends, saying "Let's visit the local graveyard", and getting strange looks in response.

[JossJossJoss1]

I've been to Arlington, the massive military cemetery in Washington DC. Saw a relatives' ashes interred. The 3-volley salute, the flag folding thing, all those crisp uniforms. Very stirring and strange in itself. And that's quite beside the fact that all you can see around you, all you've been walking past for the last twenty minutes, is little white headstones.

[FaakedLillebror]

Oh darn it!! you were in copenhagen? i live there... i would love to have a discussion with you over a cop of coffee.. :/

[KepiLayla]

I love walking through cemeteries with my camera, music, and a good book. :D

[Eladriell]

I will point out the trouble with a variety of prostitutes, cottagers, criminals and general rapscallions that frequent many of these places. New Orleans has a particular problem with it. As with any secluded place, dont go alone or unaware of potential dangers. Mostly, you'll be fine and it is well worth the trip!

[lindybeige]

@Eladriell I am yet to encounter any of the above in a cemetery.

[FellBlade9]

New Orleans has some excelent cemeteries

[Treifla]

@FellBlade9 it is however one of the very few places where the cemetary IS on the trourist map, i visited one when i went down with my family about 10 years ago (i was 12 i think) and we went to see the grave of (and then is where my 12 year ol memory fails me) some famous voodoo preistes or something of the sort

[SuperJogvan]

I get very annoyed when people try to convince me that cemeteries are a waste of space which could be made into prime apartment real estate.

[SkoinksX]

It isn't a "Russian" font, it's a Cyrillic one.

[lindybeige]

@SkoinksX I think it is both, and these graves had Cyrillic letters on them because of Russian history.

[SkoinksX]

@lindybeige I understand what you mean, but I'd like to pull out my history lessons here (I am from the Balkans after all) Lithuania had an official Cyrillic alphabet from 1864 to 190-something, can't remember. Although it is completely possible for someone Russian to be buried there, I think it's more probable that it was someone who had been taught the Cyrillic alphabet, hence it was used in his/her grave.

[lindybeige]

@SkoinksX Interesting. Well, according to Wikipedia, Lithuanian was never written in Cyrillic.

[Yrie27]

I absolutely agree, cemeteries are beautiful and so many people never bother to look at them.

There's an awesome cemetery in Cologne, the Melatenfriedhof. Maybe you could have a look should you ever happen to visit Germany.

[NorthStarAritharo]

Which one in Copenhagen did you visit?

[lindybeige]

@NorthStarAritharo Assistens Kirkegård. I should have said that in the video and forgot.

[NorthStarAritharo]

@lindybeige Right, I had to ask since I have family at Vestre Kirkegård :)

[drakonzebra]

Oh wow, I've been to St.Petersburg!

I don't share your joy of russian cemeteries (maybe that's because I live here and 've seen quite a lot of them), I find them vague and tasteless. Just look at the tombstones - all standart granite black and white creepy photographic images (old ones are nice tho). They are in no comparison with those magnificent graveyards in real europe.

[MatthiasVargas]

You should come to New Orleans. With all our above ground graves, it's like walking through a tiny stone city. You'd probably like it.

[MrPanzermaus]

Harolding: verb. To "hang around" a cemetery. 

[Treifla]

@MrPanzermaus is it wrong to "kill time" in a cemetery?

[KKarron]

It is more peaceful WHEN THERE ARE NO PEOPLE GIVING MONOLOGUES ON FILM. :p

[lindybeige]

@KKarron See my video about caps lock keys.

[KKarron]

@lindybeige Good sir, I used shift to type all that out. It took effort, but it gave a sense of accomplishment!

[Treifla]

@lindybeige didn't you know? Caps Lock is cruise control for cool!

oh, that reminds me, there are a lot of keyboards out there that in fact have a very small caps lock key, or fully customizable key mappings, but they are usually a little on the pricy side.

[PresidentDRCI]

I've always felt the the nearest you can get to heaven is by going to a cemetery

that's not a metaphor, it is, if you think about it, it IS the closest you can get to heaven.

[KuroNekoPL]

@PresidentDRCI Is it possible to get closer to place, which doesn't actually exist? :D

(Don't worry, I'm just kidding...kinda...)

[MrCattlehunter]

@PresidentDRCI

You can get closer failing to walk a tightrope across some huge gap. Remember, reckless self-endagerment is not suicide!

[TheMetalPenguin]

I agree, I also love visiting cemeteries, looking at the arctiecture, reading the headstones, so on. It's fascinating to see all the different euphemisms people use on them. Most of those I've visited in England though. I can easily see why places like Vilnius or Istanbul which have often changed hands would make very interesting visits.

[adiousir]

first!

rip.

[14GloryofRome14]

@adiousir I'm afraid not.

[lanson0]

this is very interesting next time i travel ill check out some cemetaries