The Joy of Cemeteries

In which I essay to persuade the gentle viewer that visiting cemeteries as a traveller or tourist is a worthwhile and often neglected pastime. If you have any interest in plants, animals, architecture, history, walks, photography, or culture, then you should find something to satisfy you.

Unfortunately for one part of my central argument (that cemeteries are peaceful places), I shot this in a contender for the world's noisiest cemetery.

I forgot to name the cemetery in Copenhagen: Assistens Kirkegård. One neat but modest-sized hedge there frames the headstone of one Hans Christian Anderson.

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[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.

[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.

[lindybeige]

@KKarron See my video about caps lock keys.

[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.

[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.