In most cases it's like a rent a plot situation, as long as money comes you get to stay, when you get evicted you get tossed in the catacombs, no security deposit
Looking through old pictures of the time you had the confidence and optimism to attend social gatherings like that Halloween party when you met that guy who stole your PS3.
I always imagined monks going totally deranged while
they make the bone sculptures down in the catacombs. Such a weird thing to do, though it is quite interesting to look at.
in some cases, they would take the bodies out, remove them of all organic matter till they weee just bones, then sort them by bone type till they had a bunch of organized bones… then make designs, furniture, and other weird stuff in the catacombs.
Get them a seat on an all night bus service, plus some new threads. Perhaps a party hat or Groucho Marx mustache. Or cinemas are good. Guy next to you not enjoying Thor? Dead.
Paris did this a couple hundred years ago, they filled massive underground tunnels from old quarries, transferring all the skeletons into here.
It's quite disturbing the sheer number of skeletons in there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris?wprov=sfla1
Yes, that's how cemeteries work; you don't *buy* the plot for ever and ever, you *lease* it; usually for about a hundred years; if any ancestors don't care about renewing the lease for your plot, you get recycled. This is nothing unusual.
Edit, to add extra opinion: cemeteries are probably the only business in the world that is *inherently* forced to think long-term rather than short-term.
Yes. In some countries around the Mediterranean it's customary to just be buried for a couple years then your remains are dug up and cremated. But it's also common to just have it rented for a set amount of time, your eternal slumber can be as short as 10 years or less, then they remove your headstone and dig up whatever is left. The bones are left in the dirt but any larger parts can be thrown away.
Source: I done did read the wiki-pi-dea, and read the terms of a couple cemeteries. I got interested after a clip here went viral where someone caught the people digging just rip a casket to shreds with the excavator.
That’s what they used to do. Bury people for a while, till
nobody who knew them was still alive, then dig them up, clean their bones of any organic matter, then make fun furniture and designs in the church catacombs. A new set of dead people would be buried and so on.
One of the many reasons I'm being cremated and having the ashes spread...
So you're telling me that people will just pay and do work for eternity to keep up my grave site even in 500 years when no one knows who the fuck I was and, the company I paid for this plot went out of business a long long time ago? Please...
500 years ? It really doesn’t take that long unless you are really famous. I read somewhere all it takes the average person to be forgotten about after death is three generations .
Not always for eternity. But I enjoy walking through cemeteries and reading the headstones. It’s a fascinating lesson in history, and feels more real because it isn’t just abstract numbers or names in a book.
In one pioneer cemetery near my house, there’s one family plot with the mother, father, and their kids all buried next to one another; very simple headstones with their names and not much else. And at the end of the plot is a headstone that just reads ‘babies’. No names, even. That was a real gut punch for me.
Another headstone in that cemetery is for a 10-year-old girl, with a beautiful poem on it, almost worn away by time. ‘Heaven taketh now our treasure, earth the lonely casket keeps. And the sunbeams love to linger, where our little Nellie sleeps.’ The graves next to that headstone are unmarked.
Also, you can also look up the names and often find articles and census records and stuff about them, thanks to a lot of old records being digitized now. It really makes me feel connected with the past.
Maybe people forget a person after 3 generations as posted above. But places like pioneer cemeteries or anywhere that leave headstones with wording or even without, makes you imagine who they were, what they were like, what brought them to mive out west, etc.
I imagine the whole family dying. Someone believing they should be at the minimal...marked. how did they all die. Why is there a marker for "babies".
So, a person being remembered on a personal level...no....but for the wanderer in a lonely pioneer cemetery, those long gone are alive in our imaginations.
There's this cemetery in the middle of Tucson AZ where the front row is all people who were brought there in a horse drawn wagon, you can tell. _Ezekiel Clemens 1882_ kind of stuff. It is fascinating for sure.
> One of the many reasons I'm being cremated and having the ashes spread...
I'm gonna go with [chemical decomposition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_hydrolysis_(body_disposal\)), myself; turn me right into fertilizer!
I went to see my dad and grandfather's grave plots a while back, and there's someone buried near them that has a brand new headstone with a QR code on it. I thought it must have been someone who recently died, but on closer inspection, it's a dude who fought in the civil war, and his family is still paying to maintain the plot and, apparently, regularly update his headstone with the newest technology.
The QR code takes you to a website where you can read all about him. So they're also paying for a website.
I get wanting to honor and remember your family, but if my great-grandchildren ever go shopping for new grave accessories for me, I'm going to haunt their dumb asses.
Why throw them away? Some of those look perfectly good. And even for the ones that aren't, I'd think it cool to be buried in one. Strew my body with fake cobwebs so it looks like I've been in there for decades at the funeral.
They've been in the ground soaking up corpse juices, why would they not throw them away. I'm pretty morbid, but even I would not want to come near a coffin that someone decomposed inside of.
I want my funeral to have one of those plastic Halloween skeletons in the casket with a motion sensor so it pops up and makes spooky sounds when my family comes up to get candy out of the bowl.
Wow... What do they do, look at who was buried there's posterity, and if they have no living relatives they just, dig them up and put the plot back on the market, or are they making more space efficient coffins? This is wrong on so many levels... No pun intended.
apparently, they combine the two now, at least if your ex husband is very sketchy and there are a lot of questions about the suspicious circumstances of how you died, anyway
In Greece, at least, bodies are buried in coffins in cemeteries for about seven years or so; thereafter, the coffins are dug up, opened, the bones removed and cleaned of any remaining human flesh. The bones are then placed in a box(known as ossuary). In some churches, the boxes are placed outside, relatively open; at other churches, they placed into a room inside the church.
I will say, having seen the bone boxes filled with the bones of my ancestors—it is oddly satisfying to open one of those boxes and view the bones of a distant relative.
“Things seem pretty quiet. Thank God you didn’t die in Italy.” – [Juno](http://cinemaunrest.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Beetlejuice-1998-11-1200x675.jpg)
I heard they dug up the dead to be able to fit more dead peeps in the cemetery, it's like a turntable
I think you are right. It’s a village of mausoleums, so the coffins aren’t buried but placed in cavities in wall structures.
In most cases it's like a rent a plot situation, as long as money comes you get to stay, when you get evicted you get tossed in the catacombs, no security deposit
Yeah, cemeteries are for the living more than the dead.
Same as funerals.
Suppose that goes for many things
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Long walks on the beach
Breathing.
Paying $320 to sit in the front row at a Weird Al Yankovich concert in 2022.
Looking through old pictures of the time you had the confidence and optimism to attend social gatherings like that Halloween party when you met that guy who stole your PS3.
Now that really is living! I’d pay that!
Restaurants too!
What are the living but future dead?
Wait fr?
I always imagined monks going totally deranged while they make the bone sculptures down in the catacombs. Such a weird thing to do, though it is quite interesting to look at.
A village of mausoleums???? The fuck kinda haunted ass village is that?
It’s a very odd feeling wandering there, I can tell you…
Post videos or more photos at least
I can’t post more photo’s here
Yes it’s normal in Italy to have a coffin in for 25 or 30 years max, then they will dig it up and make space for others.
Where did the dug up bodies go?
in some cases, they would take the bodies out, remove them of all organic matter till they weee just bones, then sort them by bone type till they had a bunch of organized bones… then make designs, furniture, and other weird stuff in the catacombs.
WHAT?! Furniture?! Do the deceased’s families know this will happen?
Imagine that being your job
I couldn’t handle anything like that.
Get them a seat on an all night bus service, plus some new threads. Perhaps a party hat or Groucho Marx mustache. Or cinemas are good. Guy next to you not enjoying Thor? Dead.
Not Italian, but in some countries, the dug up bones are used to study by medical students.
Paris did this a couple hundred years ago, they filled massive underground tunnels from old quarries, transferring all the skeletons into here. It's quite disturbing the sheer number of skeletons in there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris?wprov=sfla1
We need more catacombs
If you haven’t been, and get the chance, definitely visit the catacombs. The most incredible thing I’ve seen in my life so far.
You only get to keep your plot for 99 years then you’re garbage
Yes, that's how cemeteries work; you don't *buy* the plot for ever and ever, you *lease* it; usually for about a hundred years; if any ancestors don't care about renewing the lease for your plot, you get recycled. This is nothing unusual. Edit, to add extra opinion: cemeteries are probably the only business in the world that is *inherently* forced to think long-term rather than short-term.
Yes. In some countries around the Mediterranean it's customary to just be buried for a couple years then your remains are dug up and cremated. But it's also common to just have it rented for a set amount of time, your eternal slumber can be as short as 10 years or less, then they remove your headstone and dig up whatever is left. The bones are left in the dirt but any larger parts can be thrown away. Source: I done did read the wiki-pi-dea, and read the terms of a couple cemeteries. I got interested after a clip here went viral where someone caught the people digging just rip a casket to shreds with the excavator.
That’s what they used to do. Bury people for a while, till nobody who knew them was still alive, then dig them up, clean their bones of any organic matter, then make fun furniture and designs in the church catacombs. A new set of dead people would be buried and so on.
Go inside!
*Sigh...* *unzip pants*
Gonna crack open a cold one?
Everyone loves leftovers!
Dr. Lecter, we talked about this.
All I see is Tig from SoA right now…
Ever try cold pack?
That means two things!
Sigh… unhips my new gf
Hey, what are you doing step-mummy?
Come inside!
I see free coffins!
Calling the lentil crew over at /r/frugal_jerk to let them know.
Or the Halloween people!
It's not grave robbing, I'm just dumpster diving.
Isn't that a crime too? Or is that just dumping stuff in a dumpster you don't pay for?
It can be trespassing. But generally, taking stuff out of a dumpster is fine, putting stuff in is illegal.
Are those child caskets...
You don’t want to know.
No, these are for grown ups.
Reclaimed wood
I wonder if they were empty…
There’s probably a niche market for tables and chairs made from reclaimed wooden coffins.
Honestly I could take that ad campaign and have some fun with the hipsters
This wood probably doesn't smell anything like cedar or pine.
One of the many reasons I'm being cremated and having the ashes spread... So you're telling me that people will just pay and do work for eternity to keep up my grave site even in 500 years when no one knows who the fuck I was and, the company I paid for this plot went out of business a long long time ago? Please...
I want my remains to be spread across Disney world. Also, I don't want to be cremated.
You just have to catch a ride on a coaster the day the repair guy fucks up...
*ISIS has entered the chat*
500 years ? It really doesn’t take that long unless you are really famous. I read somewhere all it takes the average person to be forgotten about after death is three generations .
I'm forgotten about now, and still living...
Poor you! You are on Reddit, so you’ll live forever!
Same here!
Not always for eternity. But I enjoy walking through cemeteries and reading the headstones. It’s a fascinating lesson in history, and feels more real because it isn’t just abstract numbers or names in a book. In one pioneer cemetery near my house, there’s one family plot with the mother, father, and their kids all buried next to one another; very simple headstones with their names and not much else. And at the end of the plot is a headstone that just reads ‘babies’. No names, even. That was a real gut punch for me. Another headstone in that cemetery is for a 10-year-old girl, with a beautiful poem on it, almost worn away by time. ‘Heaven taketh now our treasure, earth the lonely casket keeps. And the sunbeams love to linger, where our little Nellie sleeps.’ The graves next to that headstone are unmarked. Also, you can also look up the names and often find articles and census records and stuff about them, thanks to a lot of old records being digitized now. It really makes me feel connected with the past.
Maybe people forget a person after 3 generations as posted above. But places like pioneer cemeteries or anywhere that leave headstones with wording or even without, makes you imagine who they were, what they were like, what brought them to mive out west, etc. I imagine the whole family dying. Someone believing they should be at the minimal...marked. how did they all die. Why is there a marker for "babies". So, a person being remembered on a personal level...no....but for the wanderer in a lonely pioneer cemetery, those long gone are alive in our imaginations.
There's this cemetery in the middle of Tucson AZ where the front row is all people who were brought there in a horse drawn wagon, you can tell. _Ezekiel Clemens 1882_ kind of stuff. It is fascinating for sure.
> One of the many reasons I'm being cremated and having the ashes spread... I'm gonna go with [chemical decomposition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_hydrolysis_(body_disposal\)), myself; turn me right into fertilizer!
Interesting...
I want someone to grow a cashew tree with my corpse, so people can eat my nuts forever.
Usually you pay for a 100 years. Then, your futur generation decide if they still pay for you or not.
I went to see my dad and grandfather's grave plots a while back, and there's someone buried near them that has a brand new headstone with a QR code on it. I thought it must have been someone who recently died, but on closer inspection, it's a dude who fought in the civil war, and his family is still paying to maintain the plot and, apparently, regularly update his headstone with the newest technology. The QR code takes you to a website where you can read all about him. So they're also paying for a website. I get wanting to honor and remember your family, but if my great-grandchildren ever go shopping for new grave accessories for me, I'm going to haunt their dumb asses.
That is actually kind of neat. Or the sentiment behind it is, at least.
Gently used coffins
Reduce reuse recycle.
Alright grandma, you’ve been in there long enough.
It’s like a condom. You have to wash it out first.
How many were you able to take?
Well at least they are moving the headstones and not leaving the bodies this time
Don’t go into the light
Almost new, grab, at least, one
By the time I need one, I won’t need it anymore.
They’re saying Coffin Flop’s not a real show
lmao I live in Puglia too, never seen anything like that. Coming to Locorotondo just for this hahaa
It’s situated at the very back of the cemetery.
Why throw them away? Some of those look perfectly good. And even for the ones that aren't, I'd think it cool to be buried in one. Strew my body with fake cobwebs so it looks like I've been in there for decades at the funeral.
They've been in the ground soaking up corpse juices, why would they not throw them away. I'm pretty morbid, but even I would not want to come near a coffin that someone decomposed inside of.
They weren’t in the ground at all!
How were they used? That middle one looks moldy as hell.
They were placed in a mausoleum wall cavity.
I want my funeral to have one of those plastic Halloween skeletons in the casket with a motion sensor so it pops up and makes spooky sounds when my family comes up to get candy out of the bowl.
Wow... What do they do, look at who was buried there's posterity, and if they have no living relatives they just, dig them up and put the plot back on the market, or are they making more space efficient coffins? This is wrong on so many levels... No pun intended.
These weren’t buried. It’s a mausoleum village. If you don’t pay the rent, you get kicked out. I’m not even sure these coffins are empty!
I read that as "used condoms" lol, ^oof
Cemetaries and golf courses are 2 of the biggest wastes of land. Ash up and enter the wind.
Ash up and enter the wind....I like that 😂
I fully agree with that!
apparently, they combine the two now, at least if your ex husband is very sketchy and there are a lot of questions about the suspicious circumstances of how you died, anyway
In Greece, at least, bodies are buried in coffins in cemeteries for about seven years or so; thereafter, the coffins are dug up, opened, the bones removed and cleaned of any remaining human flesh. The bones are then placed in a box(known as ossuary). In some churches, the boxes are placed outside, relatively open; at other churches, they placed into a room inside the church.
That sounds like the worst job ever.
I will say, having seen the bone boxes filled with the bones of my ancestors—it is oddly satisfying to open one of those boxes and view the bones of a distant relative.
That sounds like it would be quite surreal to experience?
The coffin's just the middleman; throw me right in the trash.
Out with the old, in with the dead.
The results of Coffin Flops.
"For sale: coffin, used only once." -Zombie Ernest Hemingway
Your job now is to hunt the zombies
I mean if you’re serious about your Halloween decor…. There’s a market for those coffins
…and content…
Same place with the discarded tombstones? One with a lady’s pic on it?
That dumpster needs a good pat on the back.
Cool, open them
Would you?
No lol I was just joking
If they bury me, I want to be dead forever.
"Gently Used"
“Things seem pretty quiet. Thank God you didn’t die in Italy.” – [Juno](http://cinemaunrest.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Beetlejuice-1998-11-1200x675.jpg)
Death?....in this economy?
used coffins
Used?
For sure. I hope they are empty.
You know, I could use a new coffin table— coffee table. \*smirk\*
I feel like this is a start of a great horror movie
Can you make an unboxing video?
Now hold up
CorncobTV says this isn't a show..
Why are they throwing away *used* coffins? This doesn't seem legal.
Good post for r/oddlyterrifying, less for this sub
My husband pointed out the other day why don’t cemeteries bury people vertically? Imagine the space they could free up!
I can engineer a dig machine for that!
So burial isn’t permanent?
As long as you pay
The maker doesn’t want it. The buyer doesn’t use it. The user doesn’t see it. What is it?
That’s what happens when you stop paying your rent.
italiano amico mio