Grave Exhumation 3/4 Changing Tombs Documentary

Documentary from 2001 about the Necropolis company in London who exhume graves to make space for the living..Sorry the pictures a bit jumpy but the vhs tape is quite old, and on its last legs! The Music is by the Irish band nomos.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• graves
• archeology
• death
• coffins
• exhumation
• history
• cemetary
• graveyard
• necropolis
• crypts
• church
• nomos

[cayenne212]

I totally disagree with you FD1836, I find this job extremely facinating! How can I get a job working for Necropolis? I would totally do it. I've always been interested in history, I wouldn't be bothered by decomposition. Do I need some special training? I'm a US Citizen, could I get a special visa permit since they seem to be having a hard time finding employees?

[creolelady182]

I must admitt, I find this video very interesting.I was really touched on how Necropolis and the British mortuary representatives haev a lot of respect for the dead and the dead mans wishes. great work-Thanks for posting LILY

[ehelibuff73]

I took a full tour in the Los Angeles, CA. Coroner Dept. Saw exactly 219 bodies(they have a score board on the doors of the crypt). I watched autopsies, harvest skin, lots of bodies that were fresh, moldy, mummified, burnt, murders and burnt. I even saw some that I had seen in the news recently before the tour. It was really fascinating, but the unique decomp odor was so bad, you could taste it and it stained my clothes and hair like smoke would. That was really foul!

[RFKFANTS67]

I worked in a large cemetery I'd love to work with these guys! Being around the dead never botherd me, and I've saw bodies at their worst, so all this is 2nd nature to me, nor does it bother me.

[labyonnette]

I think its a great shame that the opening chap doesnt believe in God. I would have thought that the opposite

[flyaninnocentlife]

@Typhoon10UK In an ideal world I would agree...however if you think that the world's populaton is increasing every year, eventually in thousands of years to come there will be so many dead that there will be no land left to put them in. Our planet is finite, but our population will keep going. At some point, there will be no more room and old bodies will have to be destroyed for new ones. Its horrible, but i can't see a way around it.

[Typhoon10UK]

I wish they'd leave the dead alone. I like the history of the past and think once you're buried you should be left there forever.

[Reneelwaring]

They haven't even mentioned that when the church graveyards in England started overflowing, they took the bones and put them into the floors of the church. When they started sticking out of the floors they trucked the remains to the Thames and dumbed them in by the truckloads.

[Manongjojo]

I am sure this site will be haunted. When you disturb the bodies like this it awakens their spirits.

[TudorRose85]

I find it sad. Not relocating the dead because there treated with respect. I find it sad that these people who were someone loved end of forgotten after everyone who new them dies. I just don't like the idea of being forgotten.

[leedshunk]

what a fascinating documentary !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ybrain100]

A tradicional imagem da morte, tal como hoje a conhecemos, um esqueleto carregando uma foice, tem suas origens na Idade Média. Invadiu o imaginário coletivo entre 1150 e 1250. Os Versos da Morte, aqui publicado em tradução de Heitor Megale, é o primeiro testemunho literário desta imagem de que se tem conhecimento e foi escrito pelo monge poeta Hélinand de Froidmont, entre 1194 e 1197.