I watch these videos of Martin because he is a real character this guy is one of a kind and caring very serious about his work Thanks Martin stay safe Godspeed
I agree caring for The dead is a sacred Occupation and calling I wish I would have had Someone like Martin When my little s Disabled brother passed away 17 years ago the funeral home Showed so little respect For him as we did not Have a lot of money
what amazes me is how you were able to dig it up all by yourself without an excavator. It took me an hour just to dig up a knee-deep grave for my dead dog.
Same for my cat. The dirt was hard and dry in the summer heat, not to mention we were digging through roots. Arms were black by the end. Been almost 3 years and despite being buried in a cardboard box the grave hasn't caved in or been dug up by a dog (live in the city so had to drive out to a forest). You'd never know it was there. The forest is undergoing reforestation though, all the non-native plantation conifers will be gradually removed and replaced by native oak, birch, rowan and ash trees over the next century, restoring the natural habitat. So he'll be dug up eventually but that's life. Burn me and chuck me wherever.
@@ShintyShinto we have 13 cats buried on our property (all our babies died of old age). I'd hate for them to be dug up. My eldest son and sometimes other son dug hugely deep graves. I wish I could be buried at home.
When my aunt passed on in 2014, she was buried next to her father, who had passed in 1963. At the grave service, you could clearly see the side of his metal coffin beside where hers would go. It held up remarkably well.
It's possible that it was a metal Clark Grave vault. In the 60s when her father passed the metal Clark vaults were fairly common and they are shaped like a casket. Most of the Clark vaults are made of galvanized steel and hold up very well.
Utterly rubbish, its only about 3 ft, I'm a gravedigger for 22 years 12 of them digging by hand some I dug myself to 6 n half feet, about 3 or 4 times a week, hard ground new ground, that's soft digging what we call a reopen, ie been dug before so nothing physical it's all loose, you don't know what your talking about
Grave digger in The Netherlands. Here we use an excavator. On older cemeteries with narrow paths we do have to dig by hand. 3 coffins max in each grave. The first one at around 2.8m, second at 1.8m, and last at 1.1m. we always use metal boards to prevent the walls caving in. We wouldn't want the neighbor to come for a visit during the actual funeral. Really loving your channel. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing! We dig up to a 2,5m the deepest with wooden reinforcements if the soil is loose. We can stack two coffins on top of each other but then we can rebury after 20 years so there can be many persons in one spot. My grandma lies with three other people (family also).
@@MartinsGraveyard I have a question. Someone I knows siblings died in a house fire. There were 5 that died. Between the ages of 18months and 12 years of age. All in the same plot. How would they all of fitted in one plot? It happened in 1997. Thanks.
@@charliegirlize Well, it depends on how much was left of them. Sometimes children can end up with a parent in one casket. Sometimes there are just pieces left like from train or airplane accidents. They take up little space.
@@charliegirlize You can put 4 in a double family grave (2 times wider than normal) but I can only speak about how we do it in Poland. I don't know how it is done in your neck of the woods.
I have the upmost respect for undertakers and anyone that must deal with the dead. If it wern't for them, things would be in a big mess. Someone has to do it. I take my hat off to you Martin.
I'm in the US and my best friend & his family lived above a funeral home (they owned a few of them). It was so weird to have dead bodies on the floor below us while we would all hang out. lol His mom & dad ended up hiring me and their son to pick up bodies. I've seen some stuff that would blow your mind. Suicides & fire victims were always rough. It takes a special person to deal with death & grief every single day.
If you are a Born-again Christian, your soul will ascend to Heaven when you die. Absent from the body present with the Lord. If you are not Born Again then your soul unfortunately will enter into Hell for all eternity. Become Born Again and you have nothing to fear. period. The choice is up to you.
@virginiarubino3773 we all have God's breath of life within us. Hence, the saying we live on barrowed time. To be absent from the body, Paul never meant when we die we go to heaven. It's only the breath of life that returns to the One who gave it in the first place (then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. - Ecclesiastes 12:7) The bible is clear, "the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward". The dead are sleeping in their graves and not living somewhere. When God told Adam that the moment you eat of the fruit, you shall truly die, He meant it. Our salvation lies with Christ. Until he returns, NO RESSURECTION.
@@monamuller8969why be scared of death? There is no death, just your spirit leaves your old or broken body and moves on to Gods next adventure for you to go on with your friends and loved ones who have transitioned before you! When your time comes, they come to meet you and take you with them to what many of us call Heaven, where Jesus is waiting. But please don’t feel scared! You didn’t feel scared of being born, and yet you came from spirit then! Believe me, there really is nothing to be scared of, but there will be a celebration of reunion with loved souls who passed before you. Love and light 👩🦳💕💫🌹🙏🫶🥰😻🫶💐🙏
I love how Martin practices at least once the view from the lying position! How many people can say they understand what the view will be like in their grave? 🤣🥰
@@TheStoneWhisperer Well they won’t see the view and even if they could they’ll only see soil. I can’t imagine lying under all that soil for eternity. Ewww.
Think the “poverty” coffin is my favourite too, I mean each to their own but to spend the amount of money on a box to rot your body in, underground seems absurd to me, spend your money in life and not on and extravagant funeral. You can gave a lovely respectful and caring funeral without having to spend.
I find myself fascinated by the easy digging in Polish soil. A flat shovel would get you nowhere deeper than the grass where I live. I spent over 20 years digging with a madax and round shovel and my hands, shoulders, and elbows are destroyed from it. This looks like heaven to me. I could dig in that softness for fun.
@@MartinsGraveyard I honestly never thought I'd find a video about digging that relaxed me, but this works somehow. Love from the US to Poland brother.
That's easy digging, but cave in is a near certainty. We have rock and clay with occasional tree roots that's tough digging, but it never caves. You wouldn't want to try rock and clay with that sandbox shovel though, best to get a backhoe.
I grew up with morticians on the block, one mortuary, and two retired gents. My grandparents, parents, and sister all have consecutive graves in a cemetery that were bought when the cemetery was first developed. My wife's family are generally buried in another cemetery with Graves bought together, but they were running out of land, and my wife didn't want to be buriedext, so, she owns a space in the above ground mosoleum, overlooking her family. My son died, and I had a plot and headstone in an unmaintde rustic hill side cemetery, but when they tried to dig his grave, they hit solid rock one foot down. He is in a satin lined steel casket in a concrete vault. I just want to be buried in a shroud next to him, many years from now.
Please do not lie in the bottom when you are finished digging. If the hole were to collapse in you would smother before you could get out. A person I knew died in just such a manner. I like watching your content.
....... but if that happen, it would be his last video "Grave digger buried himself" his channel may receive millions of views unless someone just keeps the camera and its never posted!
I know why I watch these vids. It makes me reflect on my own death which will absolutely come at some point in the future. They are therepeutical for me: it helps me deal with it. So thanks for your vids. I appreciate the effort.
@@BeeRocket2010 Yes and no. I believe that the Universe is cyclic: it goes endlessly from a Big Bang to a Big Crunch and through a Big Bang again etc. I also believe that everytime the Universe cycles, it's exactly as it was before. So we live the same lives over and over again, but since the incarnation of the previous Universe has been totally recycled, there is no connection left to it, so you can't lets say remember your previous life. From our point of view, we are born and we die, so we are mortals. From the cosmic point of view, we are eternal because when we die time cease to flow for us. We flash back into consciousness instantaneously in the next birth from the same mother all over again. When we live, we make choices, so everything is really random. In the grand cosmic scheme, nothing is random since the same choices were made in all the incarnations of the previous Universes. There is no god(s) and the Universe is amoral The only justice is that of men.
The truth is, I am just amazed watching a man digging into a grave. It gives me a view on how does it feels to be buried when time has come. Funny thing is, imagine going to university studying difficult a Algebra, calculus, sciences, etc for 4 years and you end up a job digging a grave. Well, i bet this guy is being paid for a reasonable wage! And I salute!
Same here! When my dad died, we took his cremated remains to a beach where he and his friends had explored as children, overlooked by the clay banks they used to climb. He had asked me to do this beforehand. Full circle so to speak.
@@jacquelinelayne7702 My body will be donated to Science Care, although because of the extent of My health i can't donate organs my cadaver will be used by medical students, they pick you up and when finished cremate you , give you back to the person you designate, total cost 0, hopefully someone will live because a Dr learned an invaluable lesson
It reminds me of the graveyard I visited in Bielsko Biala during the summer of 1998. They had family monuments for underground burial which were tombs with shelves. Large family tombs were built with a thick granite slab covering the entrance, could fit 4 to 6. When it was removed you would see the caskets on shelves. I remember visiting the cemetery and seeing one of the old monuments ready to cave in. Going back one week later the entire tomb crashed in and you could see pre-war coffins on shelves. One was very ornate and made of copper, possibly pre 1900. The cemetery I worked at had the hardest clay soil and was a b*tch to dig even with a backhoe during a drought. We would have to saturate the ground to make it easier and that barely helped.
Sometimes it collapses right before the funeral and you need to jump in in the suit and take the dirt out as fast as possible. It's a crazy job, but very rewarding and I love it. Thanks!
@@MartinsGraveyard I wish I could do it. I wanted to do reconstructive work, embalming and such but I'm almost 50 now and the time has passed. Credit to you.
@@thomasnewton4040 lol, try and lie flat on the floor - just be sure u can get back up first! Seriously, I get it, I'm only 50 but feeling worse every year. Guess it gives us an excuse to booze as much as we like tho!!
I could feel calluses developing on my hands watching you dig without gloves. Also concerned the casket could collapse under your weight. Glad it didn’t.
Thank you for your video, I really don't know which country you are in, and I know in some family cemeteries they have chosen to do this dig up one relative to place another one in there but that's why I believe in cremation. Once your soul has left your body that's just the vehicle that it used to do physical things. Thank you again for your videos and I'm very impressed with your physical stamina. God bless you and yours
The lid held up fairly well with all of that weight on it for a year. If this were a cemetery in the US that grave would have already caved in from the weight of the cemetery equipment such as the backhoe.
I think it also depends on the type of soil the coffin/casket is buried in and the type of material they're made of. I've exhumed coffins from sandy soil and they were in tact. Other exhumations, the coffin had deteriorated a great deal.
@@thomasmint1761 In Poland it's also like that sometimes, well at least it was when I was a kid back in the early 2000s. I remember that my uncle was buried in a grave were the sides were made of concrete or bricks and they didn't put the dirt there. They just put his coffin at the bottom and then closed it with a lid. Now that I'm writing about this, I remember that when my grandfather died on 2013, I saw a bit of other coffins in the grave during his funeral, because he was buried alongside my aunt, my grandfather and two grandmothers. I think that this kind of graves are made if the priest/gravediggers or whoever is responsible for this, are informed that in the future more bodies will lay there.
I'm just impressed by the condition of the box that was put in the previous year. Hard to believe that it looks that good being in direct contact with the ground. I don't know the laws here in the states, I sure they vary by state but I think at a minimum a grave liner is required. Keep up the good work, I know that's a job I couldn't do
I live in California, and in this state, if a burial in the ground is wanted, one must agree to a cement "vault" which is placed in the ground before a burial. Some people pay for the vault years before they need it!
In TN you can be buried any way you want even with out a coffin. In other states if your belief forbids being buried in a casket you can be buried with out one.
@@cliffclark6441 Because Lisa Marie Presley just died, people were asking about Elvis' identical brother, Jesse. He was the first baby, butstillborn, and they put him in a shoebox because they didn't have money, and he is buried in the ground in Mississippi. They never moved him, but there is a cenotaph for him in Graceland.
My sincere appreciation for what you do. In high-school I had a summer job digging graves in Boston MA which was eye-opening and hard work but not as hard as yours. Question if I may; I the U.S. we use concrete vault liners to protect against soil collapse and surface depressions. I guess that is not common on Poland? We do have "green burials" which do use a concrete vault but one which is open on the bottom so the wood coffin rests on soil. Different customs. Thank you for sharing these!
Luv your work, and you have to I guess have a sense of humour, without being disrespectful. I luv how some people are always ready to go into a rage over a job that they certainly wouldn't do. I mean I could work in a morgue, does that mean I play with stiffs all day..... lol. No I'm just a hair mechanic, I fix hair. Peace n luv 2 everyone, from the land down under x
Day in and day out, our days are numbered and soon, each of us watching this sad moment will be in similar situation. Where our love ones will finally say goodbye, cover us with the earth and we will be forgotten years later. 😢😢😢
Hi Im new to your channel as Ive stummbled onto your video...I'd like to say I wished grave diggers in my state was as compassionate as you are here. However they do not care as long as they get paid. My uncle had to care for his wife's grave because he couldnt get the cemetery caretakers to do so it was heart breaking to see him hauling dirt and sod to care for her grave.
It’s a boneheaded move to lie down in any grave, and particularly that grave. The soil is so loose. Loose soil weights around 85-90 lbs per foot of depth. Three feet of it is enough to make him a Darwin Award winner.
You should have done helpers do 5 gallon buckets of dirt lift up with ropes so you don’t injure your back. You won’t realize it until it’s to late but you can really rupture dusk and do all kinds of damage to your body doing that kind of work. Gods bless you for doing this work
Not taking anything away from your tremendous effort, but it appears you have very nice soil to work with (I’m already discounting for the recent burial). In Virginia, we have red clay. It is like frozen iron to dig through, especially in the dry of summer
I agree, the dirt looked nice. Where I lived there is a lot of clay and rock. First grave I dug was in the winter. Over a foot of frost to get through.
Oh yes, it was a breeze to dig in that. This doesn't happen often. I also deal with clay and I have only a pickaxe to help me with that, so sometimes I'm chipping thin flakes of clay for hours. I once dug a grave for 10 hours. I hope to film such a case someday.
My great aunt was buried in the family cemetary and they had to pound slate like material that was in sheets and layers so she was essentially buried in rocks.
Good soil for burials. No rocks. Easy to dig through. My father dug many a grave in his life time and sometimes it had to be done more with a pick axe than a shovel.
When my Grandmother died, my grandfather bought a double grave because he intended to be buried with her. This looks like a double grave and the person to be buried there would almost certainly be a family member.
Am i the only one who finds all the outrage strange in these videos. Theres clear respect for the bodies. When you're dead you're dead. Being moved a few meters isnt going go wake you up from being dead...
They're not moved anywhere in this one, just husband joins wife and yet some people are outraged not even knowing what exactly they are outraged about. I find it frustrating and fascinating.
Ah. When I made that comment I was referencing your other videos as well, when you make space for the new grave. Where you kept track of what you found and buried it just under the new grave site. Thanks for your work and videos. They are really interesting
A lot of people have this weird idea that graves are forever. They have never studied the burial practices of most of the world, or studied much of anything, for that matter. They live in fear & ignorance, and their only tool is to lash out against what they don’t understand.
Hi Martin, do you ever accidentally nick or damage the bones of the original occupant of the grave with your shovel? That would always be on my mind and a concern if I had your job. Anyways, thanks for sharing your work day with us. Interesting stuff. Subscribed.
@G. Mule My mind is at rest. It's not about whether they feel it. It's about trying to be respectful of the deceased remains. There's no way to avoid hitting them occasionally, I get that.
We live in the US in a large southern state. My daughters husband worked for a funeral home while he was in college. Then after his first marriage ended in divorce, (as a second job for extra money as they provided an apartment as part of reimbursement). Here the space between rows is quite wide and allows for machinery to dig the graves. Which is done by cemetery personnel rather than funeral home personnel. That said cemeteries do allow for burying loved ones two deep. If two caskets I’m sure they would allow cremains to be added perhaps. But I seriously doubt any allow for many than two deep per plot in most states.
I live in Arkansas and I have never heard of burying 2 deep. My dad bought 5 plots and my parents are beside each other. The remaining plots are for me and any of my children or grandchildren.
@@swabybaby3523 A few years ago my aunt and uncle were buried stacked like that here in the US. That was the first I had ever heard of it and as far as I know no one else in my family ever did that. They were always VERY frugal with their money, so maybe that's why. On the other hand, the large cemetery they are in is in the city center, is old and very crowded so maybe they could only get one plot. I don't know.
You explained how people are buried on top of eachother in graves in Poland. I guess North Americans are shocked by this. My Grandfather is buried in a dual plot in Europe. He was actually put in on top of his Uncle and Aunt. Its been decades since we've seen the grave. Recently someone in the area took a picture of the grave. On the grave is a quite tall obelisk. My Grandfather's name is on it along with his relatives. But others ( strangers) have been buried on top of my relatives. Their names have been added to the obelisk. My Dad lost a brother in infancy. We tried to locate his grave. Its simply not there anymore. If care isnt paid for, the grave is reused for someone else.
Also interested if embalming is routine / usual practice where you do this work? I know for embalmed bodies the body is preserved for years and years, relative to environmental conditions. Personally I think embalming is extremely over rated and is a money making scam in majority of cases. I've had relatives not embalmed, but kept in the cold, at funeral homes for days until burial and I've seen them to say goodbye 5 and 6 days after they died. You couldn't see or smell anything 'bad'. Yet the undertakers push for u to pay for embalming under the guise your loved one will rot away and be in bad condition / you won't be able to see rhem after a day ot two without bad memories. Not the case at all!!!
Yes, I call shenanigans on embalming. We cremated my parents (they approved) and they wanted to embalm them for the viewing. Fill them up with 'natural' skin tones and formaldehyde. These chemicals return to the environment whether you are cremated or buried. Toxic.
It's a scam, the funeral homes make big bucks from it. Maybe for some it's a religious thing. In the end the deceased will disappear, the embalming will just delay that inevitable process a bit.
They must not use vaults much over in Europe. Here in the US they're used as a means to keep a void or depression from forming above ground from a decaying casket. In some of the older graves, a mower will ride over it and fall in several inches if it's heavy enough to crush the casket down below.
@@JunkerDC during human history people try yo made soap from dead bodys burn them throw them on rivers fide wile animals etc ect.. its more a moral dilema than a practical solusion... there is meny options to keep neture going on but some of them a gros 👍
The grave is one year old, not the person buried in it. I think that standing on it is much more disrespectful than laying on it. What would sitting in it be? Can I stand in it but just move around the edges, where there are no remains underneath, to avoid being disrespectful? How to do it all respectfuly? I'm not being sarcastic, you presented a very Interesting problem. I think that it all varies very much and depends on the local culture. Thank you.
@@MartinsGraveyard I totally understand you need to stand above the body and move around whilst working,,it's the view looking up that's not necessary.(on that point I'll leave it there), like I said your a good worker.and I look forward to more videos...
Hello Sir. I have not been watching your channel all that long. And I am only taking a guess. But are these graveyards in France? From what I understand graves are only rented in france. But I thought that they could have the grave at least more than 1 year. It is very interesting to see how much of the mighty decomposes in the ground. I am basically talking about bones. Could you tell me what is the last bone that will usually break down and turn to dust? Thank you very much, and I love your channel.
My family have used the same burial plot in England for nearly 200 years since the parish churchyard became full. Previously they were buried in the crypt of the church or below the floor for several hundred years. The earliest I can find within the church is 1540 but I think the earlier pre-reformation memorials have just been lost when the protestants took over. The difference is that the current burial plot is brick-lined and has a capstone. It is getting rather full and I think the earliest burial was in 1879 with the most recent in 1999. There are several family burials elsewhere, for example in France where the deaths were the result of both wars and they merely have a stone plaque inside the church whilst one great uncle has his name on a stained/ coloured glass window together with others lost at sea when HMS Hood sank. I am wondering whether we should continue using wooden/ oak coffins or move towards the earlier method of using a simple wollen shroud. The Victorian coffins were made of elm wood and covered in black crepe or velvet decorated with brass upholstery nails but I think that is too overelabourate today. I don't like the American use of steel or iron caskets at all. They tend to turn the body within into wax mummies. We should talk about these issues with our children whilst we are still living. I have to say I am quite drawn to the idea of being buried in a simple woollen shroud.
(1) I thought my limit with weird TH-cam rabbit holes was all the zit popping and here I am watching multiple videos of exhumations. It's an education, and I salute you. (2) If this is a common situation in Europe why don't they bury the spouse deeper knowing that the surviving spouse might eventually join?
It was not long after an accident in which I threw my back out. When it happened, I jumped right back into the grave to finish digging, with disc bulging. Then, one week lying in bed.
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I watch these videos of Martin because he is a real character this guy is one of a kind and caring very serious about his work Thanks Martin stay safe Godspeed
Thank you your majesty 🙂
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@@Nccr3-ht8gmI’m really sorry that happened and that you have to deal with those memories. ❤
Bro why is this on TH-cam
Don’t like how he says, ‘looks fresh’
Every breath we take we're closer to this moment.
The moment of birth you start dying
Wow that’s deep 👎🏻
Exactly, Lucas,every day we get up ,is one day closer to our demise..wether we realize it or not.
He didn’t video the icky part at the end. One year and the remains would still be mostly whole, gooey and very stinky.
@@larryhullinger4141aww new neighbors, "ur blocking the sunlight again Barbara" 😡
Martin has some serious muscle in his arms! Amazing that he does this by himself!
what amazes me is how you were able to dig it up all by yourself without an excavator. It took me an hour just to dig up a knee-deep grave for my dead dog.
Looks like really soft dirt.
The soil was very soft and easy to dig in. I wasn't my first time digging either.
Thats just not deep enough, hes gonna come after you.
Same for my cat. The dirt was hard and dry in the summer heat, not to mention we were digging through roots. Arms were black by the end.
Been almost 3 years and despite being buried in a cardboard box the grave hasn't caved in or been dug up by a dog (live in the city so had to drive out to a forest). You'd never know it was there. The forest is undergoing reforestation though, all the non-native plantation conifers will be gradually removed and replaced by native oak, birch, rowan and ash trees over the next century, restoring the natural habitat. So he'll be dug up eventually but that's life. Burn me and chuck me wherever.
@@ShintyShinto we have 13 cats buried on our property (all our babies died of old age). I'd hate for them to be dug up. My eldest son and sometimes other son dug hugely deep graves. I wish I could be buried at home.
When my aunt passed on in 2014, she was buried next to her father, who had passed in 1963. At the grave service, you could clearly see the side of his metal coffin beside where hers would go. It held up remarkably well.
You saw the vault. The bare coffin does not go into the ground, it's inside the vault.
@@janet20257 you know everything.. sometimes things aren't the same.. open your mind and shut your mouth.. respect different cultures
@@337caprice you shut your mouth. It's NOT a matter of culture. It's of burial regulations, dumbass
It's possible that it was a metal Clark Grave vault. In the 60s when her father passed the metal Clark vaults were fairly common and they are shaped like a casket. Most of the Clark vaults are made of galvanized steel and hold up very well.
@@RADIUMGLASS thanks for that info
Martin, I have no doubts we will see you in a Chiropractor video in the future with back ache, great man indeed much respect sir
I work in cemeteries. So in saying so I certainly can appreciate what a hard worker you are.
@@60toodles oh no I’m a contractor who cares for many cemeteries. I sure enjoy watching your content though. Thx
Utterly rubbish, its only about 3 ft, I'm a gravedigger for 22 years 12 of them digging by hand some I dug myself to 6 n half feet, about 3 or 4 times a week, hard ground new ground, that's soft digging what we call a reopen, ie been dug before so nothing physical it's all loose, you don't know what your talking about
Grave digger in The Netherlands. Here we use an excavator. On older cemeteries with narrow paths we do have to dig by hand. 3 coffins max in each grave. The first one at around 2.8m, second at 1.8m, and last at 1.1m. we always use metal boards to prevent the walls caving in. We wouldn't want the neighbor to come for a visit during the actual funeral. Really loving your channel. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing! We dig up to a 2,5m the deepest with wooden reinforcements if the soil is loose. We can stack two coffins on top of each other but then we can rebury after 20 years so there can be many persons in one spot. My grandma lies with three other people (family also).
@@MartinsGraveyard I have a question. Someone I knows siblings died in a house fire. There were 5 that died. Between the ages of 18months and 12 years of age. All in the same plot. How would they all of fitted in one plot? It happened in 1997.
Thanks.
@@charliegirlize Well, it depends on how much was left of them. Sometimes children can end up with a parent in one casket. Sometimes there are just pieces left like from train or airplane accidents. They take up little space.
@@MartinsGraveyard they would of been full bodies. It was the smoke that got them 😔. Can you put 5 coffins in one grave?
@@charliegirlize You can put 4 in a double family grave (2 times wider than normal) but I can only speak about how we do it in Poland. I don't know how it is done in your neck of the woods.
After reading the description i get it now. That's a sweet idea to lay your spouse or loved ones on top of each other. ❤
@@TM-0813 my parents are buried on top of eachother.
This was a surprise from the You Tube algorithm. Great job and video. Keep up the good work. I'm a gravedigger in the US.
Thank you! Greetings from Poland, fellow gravedigger.
Thank you for what you do, it takes a special kind of person to do this type work
I wanted to be gravedigger when I was 7
I have the upmost respect for undertakers and anyone that must deal with the dead. If it wern't for them, things would be in a big mess. Someone has to do it. I take my hat off to you Martin.
Thank you Mike.
It's a job most of us wouldnt do for any amount of money, so hats off to Martin and his grave digging compatriots
I'm in the US and my best friend & his family lived above a funeral home (they owned a few of them). It was so weird to have dead bodies on the floor below us while we would all hang out. lol His mom & dad ended up hiring me and their son to pick up bodies. I've seen some stuff that would blow your mind. Suicides & fire victims were always rough. It takes a special person to deal with death & grief every single day.
I love your job. We must not be scared of the dead or death. It's part of us.
Exciting 😮
I would disagree here. I think it's wise to be scared of death if you don't know where your soul goes.
@@monamuller8969 I know, believe me.
If you are a Born-again Christian, your soul will ascend to Heaven when you die. Absent from the body present with the Lord. If you are not Born Again then your soul unfortunately will enter into Hell for all eternity. Become Born Again and you have nothing to fear. period. The choice is up to you.
@virginiarubino3773 we all have God's breath of life within us. Hence, the saying we live on barrowed time. To be absent from the body, Paul never meant when we die we go to heaven. It's only the breath of life that returns to the One who gave it in the first place (then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7) The bible is clear, "the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward". The dead are sleeping in their graves and not living somewhere. When God told Adam that the moment you eat of the fruit, you shall truly die, He meant it. Our salvation lies with Christ. Until he returns, NO RESSURECTION.
@@monamuller8969why be scared of death? There is no death, just your spirit leaves your old or broken body and moves on to Gods next adventure for you to go on with your friends and loved ones who have transitioned before you! When your time comes, they come to meet you and take you with them to what many of us call Heaven, where Jesus is waiting. But please don’t feel scared! You didn’t feel scared of being born, and yet you came from spirit then! Believe me, there really is nothing to be scared of, but there will be a celebration of reunion with loved souls who passed before you. Love and light 👩🦳💕💫🌹🙏🫶🥰😻🫶💐🙏
Fair play to that guy for having a sense of humour. Pity he couldn't have the use if a mini excavator to ease those back pains. What facinating work!
I love how Martin practices at least once the view from the lying position! How many people can say they understand what the view will be like in their grave? 🤣🥰
@@TheStoneWhisperer Well they won’t see the view and even if they could they’ll only see soil. I can’t imagine lying under all that soil for eternity. Ewww.
Great video cut job.
I really respect and appreciate his daily work..Lot of news...need to take a closer look
Think the “poverty” coffin is my favourite too, I mean each to their own but to spend the amount of money on a box to rot your body in, underground seems absurd to me, spend your money in life and not on and extravagant funeral. You can gave a lovely respectful and caring funeral without having to spend.
Exactly my thoughts. It all turns into dust anyway.
Beautiful
I find myself fascinated by the easy digging in Polish soil. A flat shovel would get you nowhere deeper than the grass where I live. I spent over 20 years digging with a madax and round shovel and my hands, shoulders, and elbows are destroyed from it. This looks like heaven to me. I could dig in that softness for fun.
Check out my other video with, that's right, even better soil. Perfect conditions gravedigging is the name.
@@MartinsGraveyard I honestly never thought I'd find a video about digging that relaxed me, but this works somehow. Love from the US to Poland brother.
Worms have lots to feed on makes the soil rich 😮
That's easy digging, but cave in is a near certainty. We have rock and clay with occasional tree roots that's tough digging, but it never caves. You wouldn't want to try rock and clay with that sandbox shovel though, best to get a backhoe.
In Australia the graves are six foot deep you’ll need your ladder. Thanks for the content. Cheers John from Wollongong Australia 🇦🇺
Six feet is normally how far they bury all coffins..
Yes the same in Britain 🇬🇧
Fascinating ! Thank you for sharing !
Glad you enjoyed it
I just can't stop watching them all night I would never lie down in a grave knowing that there is a casket below hell no
Especially when it still looks that fresh. Very scary.
@@m.o.b.5011 I’d be worried that if I was at the bottom I couldn’t get out if turned to a zombie 😂
@@j.cheese34 you can say that again. There's reasons why it was said, respect the dead 😂😂
@@m.o.b.5011 😂😂😂
Yeah, a hand might come up & make a grab for he testicles 😮
Such respect given. 🙏 You've well earned your trust to these famies.
Oh my goodness you are amazing you cover all aspects of the process im 8n awe of you xx
Thank you, glad you liked it.
I grew up with morticians on the block, one mortuary, and two retired gents. My grandparents, parents, and sister all have consecutive graves in a cemetery that were bought when the cemetery was first developed. My wife's family are generally buried in another cemetery with Graves bought together, but they were running out of land, and my wife didn't want to be buriedext, so, she owns a space in the above ground mosoleum, overlooking her family.
My son died, and I had a plot and headstone in an unmaintde rustic hill side cemetery, but when they tried to dig his grave, they hit solid rock one foot down. He is in a satin lined steel casket in a concrete vault. I just want to be buried in a shroud next to him, many years from now.
Please do not lie in the bottom when you are finished digging. If the hole were to collapse in you would smother before you could get out. A person I knew died in just such a manner. I like watching your content.
Shut up Flintstone ass dork
Also a sign of respect
....... but if that happen, it would be his last video "Grave digger buried himself" his channel may receive millions of views unless someone just keeps the camera and its never posted!
A mi me parece muy irrespetuosa la forma de acostarse en el sitio sagrado eterno de un cuerpo.
Beautifully done martin
I know why I watch these vids. It makes me reflect on my own death which will absolutely come at some point in the future. They are therepeutical for me: it helps me deal with it. So thanks for your vids. I appreciate the effort.
Hi, what's going on exactly? Are you worried or preoccupied about dying? Something from childhood?
@@BeeRocket2010 Just survival instinct.
@@EricAsselin Do you think we part from our bodies and go anywhere when we die or just black nothing like it was before our birth?
@@BeeRocket2010 Yes and no. I believe that the Universe is cyclic: it goes endlessly from a Big Bang to a Big Crunch and through a Big Bang again etc. I also believe that everytime the Universe cycles, it's exactly as it was before. So we live the same lives over and over again, but since the incarnation of the previous Universe has been totally recycled, there is no connection left to it, so you can't lets say remember your previous life. From our point of view, we are born and we die, so we are mortals. From the cosmic point of view, we are eternal because when we die time cease to flow for us. We flash back into consciousness instantaneously in the next birth from the same mother all over again. When we live, we make choices, so everything is really random. In the grand cosmic scheme, nothing is random since the same choices were made in all the incarnations of the previous Universes. There is no god(s) and the Universe is amoral
The only justice is that of men.
So since you will repeat this experience eternally, make it the best experience for you and those around you.
That's a beautiful view ❤
Imagine if you laid down and heard a knocking and heard "hey get your own grave and cut out that racket I'm trying to rest in PEACE!"
He'd have filled the hole back in quicker than he dug it while poo would shoot out 😮
@@Yumbutteredsausage he'd have been a human rocket.
@@Yumbutteredsausage I think he would of just told them to "relax, it won't be long until I'm finished", he seems that kind of relaxed type of guy.
The truth is, I am just amazed watching a man digging into a grave. It gives me a view on how does it feels to be buried when time has come.
Funny thing is, imagine going to university studying difficult a
Algebra, calculus, sciences, etc for 4 years and you end up a job digging a grave. Well, i bet this guy is being paid for a reasonable wage!
And I salute!
no doubt at all that excavating solely with a shovel is one of the most strenuous jobs there is. my hats off to you dude.
And this is why I'm being cremated.
Yep..same here. And scattered on my favourite beach
Same here! When my dad died, we took his cremated remains to a beach where he and his friends had explored as children, overlooked by the clay banks they used to climb. He had asked me to do this beforehand. Full circle so to speak.
Amen, just make sure they don't sell pieces of you for thousands of dollars
@@jacquelinelayne7702 My body will be donated to Science Care, although because of the extent of My health i can't donate organs my cadaver will be used by medical students, they pick you up and when finished cremate you , give you back to the person you designate, total cost 0, hopefully someone will live because a Dr learned an invaluable lesson
Exactly!
It reminds me of the graveyard I visited in Bielsko Biala during the summer of 1998. They had family monuments for underground burial which were tombs with shelves. Large family tombs were built with a thick granite slab covering the entrance, could fit 4 to 6. When it was removed you would see the caskets on shelves. I remember visiting the cemetery and seeing one of the old monuments ready to cave in. Going back one week later the entire tomb crashed in and you could see pre-war coffins on shelves. One was very ornate and made of copper, possibly pre 1900.
The cemetery I worked at had the hardest clay soil and was a b*tch to dig even with a backhoe during a drought. We would have to saturate the ground to make it easier and that barely helped.
That must be really frustrating when it keeps collapsing in you like that. A noble trade sir, but please look after your back!
Sometimes it collapses right before the funeral and you need to jump in in the suit and take the dirt out as fast as possible. It's a crazy job, but very rewarding and I love it. Thanks!
@@MartinsGraveyard I wish I could do it. I wanted to do reconstructive work, embalming and such but I'm almost 50 now and the time has passed.
Credit to you.
I am 75 1/2 yrs. Old. My back now feels like I dug graves all of my life. 😑
@@thomasnewton4040 lol, try and lie flat on the floor - just be sure u can get back up first!
Seriously, I get it, I'm only 50 but feeling worse every year. Guess it gives us an excuse to booze as much as we like tho!!
I just sub'd. I think his job is interesting, but his work is top notch.
Our graveyards in Canada have lots of room to use backhoes for digging 😊
I could feel calluses developing on my hands watching you dig without gloves. Also concerned the casket could collapse under your weight. Glad it didn’t.
Thank you for what you do, it takes a very special person to do this kind work, I use to be a donkey( get it)wiper
Martin i love you channel and you are a really hard workers keep on with your nice work all the way from South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Thank you and greetings from Poland 🙂⚰️
I'm impressed with your Shovel skillzzz. That casket was down there a ways.
I ask myself the same question.Why do I watch these videos.Somehow in a weird kind of ,way I find these videos fascinating.
laying down on a coffin with just 30cm dirt on it, is a little morbid o.0
i guess it takes a special kind of man to do this job.
You think ?🤣
@@viamilitaris011 loled a little
His job takes him close to his clients 😮
Hopefully the two people who are to be laid to rest that close together got along really good in life, or else,,,,,,
Thank you for your video, I really don't know which country you are in, and I know in some family cemeteries they have chosen to do this dig up one relative to place another one in there but that's why I believe in cremation. Once your soul has left your body that's just the vehicle that it used to do physical things. Thank you again for your videos and I'm very impressed with your physical stamina. God bless you and yours
He's in Poland
@@caroljohnston4018 thank you so much he's a very thoughtful and has a lot of stamina
Can you imagine some person seeing the open grave, walking up to it, and seeing you inside 😲😲😲 Person would have a heartattack
A lot of people saw me digging. It's not a big deal here.
The lid held up fairly well with all of that weight on it for a year. If this were a cemetery in the US that grave would have already caved in from the weight of the cemetery equipment such as the backhoe.
In the US, they almost invariably require an outer concrete vault these days, which prevents exactly that from happening
I think it also depends on the type of soil the coffin/casket is buried in and the type of material they're made of. I've exhumed coffins from sandy soil and they were in tact. Other exhumations, the coffin had deteriorated a great deal.
@@thomasmint1761 In Poland it's also like that sometimes, well at least it was when I was a kid back in the early 2000s. I remember that my uncle was buried in a grave were the sides were made of concrete or bricks and they didn't put the dirt there. They just put his coffin at the bottom and then closed it with a lid. Now that I'm writing about this, I remember that when my grandfather died on 2013, I saw a bit of other coffins in the grave during his funeral, because he was buried alongside my aunt, my grandfather and two grandmothers. I think that this kind of graves are made if the priest/gravediggers or whoever is responsible for this, are informed that in the future more bodies will lay there.
Beau Travail comme d'habitude🎬🔬🍀💪Alex France🙏🌌😉
Merci
I'm just impressed by the condition of the box that was put in the previous year. Hard to believe that it looks that good being in direct contact with the ground. I don't know the laws here in the states, I sure they vary by state but I think at a minimum a grave liner is required. Keep up the good work, I know that's a job I couldn't do
I live in California, and in this state, if a burial in the ground is wanted, one must agree to a cement "vault" which is placed in the ground before a burial. Some people pay for the vault years before they need it!
In TN you can be buried any way you want even with out a coffin. In other states if your belief forbids being buried in a casket you can be buried with out one.
@@cliffclark6441 I think that is a good idea!
@@cliffclark6441 Because Lisa Marie Presley just died, people were asking about Elvis' identical brother, Jesse. He was the first baby, butstillborn, and they put him in a shoebox because they didn't have money, and he is buried in the ground in Mississippi. They never moved him, but there is a cenotaph for him in Graceland.
@@cliffclark6441 That sounds very good!
My sincere appreciation for what you do. In high-school I had a summer job digging graves in Boston MA which was eye-opening and hard work but not as hard as yours.
Question if I may; I the U.S. we use concrete vault liners to protect against soil collapse and surface depressions. I guess that is not common on Poland?
We do have "green burials" which do use a concrete vault but one which is open on the bottom so the wood coffin rests on soil. Different customs. Thank you for sharing these!
We seldom use vaults. Protecting the corpse from the environment is against nature and a waste of resources.
@@MartinsGraveyardamen
It's okay you are not alone 😊
Sir , you are Awesome
I dont want anything left of me when I die. No body, no grave, no pictures. Nothing.
You can have your cremains put under a tree, then the people that loved you can come and sit under it and remember you.
Lmao you're like "The economy is crazy, fck that i'll be fine" 🤣
Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺 Salute
Luv your work, and you have to I guess have a sense of humour, without being disrespectful. I luv how some people are always ready to go into a rage over a job that they certainly wouldn't do. I mean I could work in a morgue, does that mean I play with stiffs all day..... lol. No I'm just a hair mechanic, I fix hair. Peace n luv 2 everyone, from the land down under x
Day in and day out, our days are numbered and soon, each of us watching this sad moment will be in similar situation. Where our love ones will finally say goodbye, cover us with the earth and we will be forgotten years later. 😢😢😢
Your definitely a hard worker.
Hi Im new to your channel as Ive stummbled onto your video...I'd like to say I wished grave diggers in my state was as compassionate as you are here. However they do not care as long as they get paid. My uncle had to care for his wife's grave because he couldnt get the cemetery caretakers to do so it was heart breaking to see him hauling dirt and sod to care for her grave.
It’s a boneheaded move to lie down in any grave, and particularly that grave. The soil is so loose. Loose soil weights around 85-90 lbs per foot of depth. Three feet of it is enough to make him a Darwin Award winner.
I know, that wasn't my brightest moment.
You should have done helpers do 5 gallon buckets of dirt lift up with ropes so you don’t injure your back. You won’t realize it until it’s to late but you can really rupture dusk and do all kinds of damage to your body doing that kind of work. Gods bless you for doing this work
Look's like he really enjoys his job..
That has to be a lot of work. I give you credit for doing this. I'm sure you have to be absolutely exhausted after all this!
This one was easy but sometimes it takes a whole day.
Not taking anything away from your tremendous effort, but it appears you have very nice soil to work with (I’m already discounting for the recent burial). In Virginia, we have red clay. It is like frozen iron to dig through, especially in the dry of summer
I agree, the dirt looked nice. Where I lived there is a lot of clay and rock. First grave I dug was in the winter. Over a foot of frost to get through.
Oh yes, it was a breeze to dig in that. This doesn't happen often. I also deal with clay and I have only a pickaxe to help me with that, so sometimes I'm chipping thin flakes of clay for hours. I once dug a grave for 10 hours. I hope to film such a case someday.
My great aunt was buried in the family cemetary and they had to pound slate like material that was in sheets and layers so she was essentially buried in rocks.
Did anyone else think to themselves ‘I wonder whether he’s ever tempted to take a look inside’, or as an ex funeral worker was it just me?😂
I was curious but didn't do it.
@@MartinsGraveyard I wished you would’ve that’s why I was watching 😢lollll
@Martin the Maker yeah I was hoping you would open it up
Probably seen enough dead legs already to last a lifetime 😮
I thought they buried caskets side by side not on top of each other. I guess I was wrong.
I wondered about the person in the coffin, what does she look like a year after death?
@@ozgurcatal95 like a beauty queen
Let her take rest , now don't disturb her.
I would be worried about smells coming up and leakage of body fluids.
Body fluids aren't gonna rise up are they & the only smell would be if digger farted 😮
Good soil for burials. No rocks. Easy to dig through. My father dug many a grave in his life time and sometimes it had to be done more with a pick axe than a shovel.
Sometimes it takes 30 minutes and sometimes 8 hours. We have a lot of different kinds of soil here. This one was a breeze.
Nice sandy soil easy to dig in. Come to Alabama and dig in our clay soil not so easy.
We have all kinds of soil here too. Some is so hard that you struggle even with the pickaxe. This one was the rare easy ones.
I don't know how you do it very hard work for one man!
When my Grandmother died, my grandfather bought a double grave because he intended to be buried with her. This looks like a double grave and the person to be buried there would almost certainly be a family member.
Looks like a single grave and someone is going to be stacked on top of them just like he said at first part of video
Na, they run outta space, just chucking anyone on top, doh 😮
Wish I had your strength and fortitude. And I mean that in a couple of different ways.
Am i the only one who finds all the outrage strange in these videos. Theres clear respect for the bodies. When you're dead you're dead. Being moved a few meters isnt going go wake you up from being dead...
They're not moved anywhere in this one, just husband joins wife and yet some people are outraged not even knowing what exactly they are outraged about. I find it frustrating and fascinating.
Ah. When I made that comment I was referencing your other videos as well, when you make space for the new grave. Where you kept track of what you found and buried it just under the new grave site.
Thanks for your work and videos. They are really interesting
A lot of people have this weird idea that graves are forever. They have never studied the burial practices of most of the world, or studied much of anything, for that matter. They live in fear & ignorance, and their only tool is to lash out against what they don’t understand.
It’s probably your ghoulish smile and tasteless video title. You don’t do well with women, do you?
@SearTrip nobody thinks graves last forever. You just made that up to rationalize the fact that you go online and fap to dead bodies
I like that there's no concrete vaults n wasteful permanent obstructions. Not like majority in America - it's big business
I want to see my brother what he looks like after one year in grave. I miss him so much 😭
Sorry for your loss
You don’t wanna see that… just remember him for who he was my friend. He is with you always ❤
Morbid curiosity
What the...
Probably like this 🧟
It's crazy to see all these graves so close together
It's completely normal here in Poland.
Hi Martin, do you ever accidentally nick or damage the bones of the original occupant of the grave with your shovel? That would always be on my mind and a concern if I had your job. Anyways, thanks for sharing your work day with us. Interesting stuff. Subscribed.
Yes I do. You never know where the bones are exactly. They can appear anywhere, anytime.
@G. Mule My mind is at rest. It's not about whether they feel it. It's about trying to be respectful of the deceased remains. There's no way to avoid hitting them occasionally, I get that.
@@mr.cicada5792 smh
We live in the US in a large southern state. My daughters husband worked for a funeral home while he was in college. Then after his first marriage ended in divorce, (as a second job for extra money as they provided an apartment as part of reimbursement).
Here the space between rows is quite wide and allows for machinery to dig the graves. Which is done by cemetery personnel rather than funeral home personnel.
That said cemeteries do allow for burying loved ones two deep. If two caskets I’m sure they would allow cremains to be added perhaps. But I seriously doubt any allow for many than two deep per plot in most states.
I live in Arkansas and I have never heard of burying 2 deep. My dad bought 5 plots and my parents are beside each other. The remaining plots are for me and any of my children or grandchildren.
@@swabybaby3523 A few years ago my aunt and uncle were buried stacked like that here in the US. That was the first I had ever heard of it and as far as I know no one else in my family ever did that. They were always VERY frugal with their money, so maybe that's why. On the other hand, the large cemetery they are in is in the city center, is old and very crowded so maybe they could only get one plot. I don't know.
Marcin to jest w Polsce?
Zgadza się.
You explained how people are buried on top of eachother in graves in Poland. I guess North Americans are shocked by this.
My Grandfather is buried in a dual plot in Europe. He was actually put in on top of his Uncle and Aunt. Its been decades since we've seen the grave.
Recently someone in the area took a picture of the grave. On the grave is a quite tall obelisk. My Grandfather's name is on it along with his relatives. But others ( strangers) have been buried on top of my relatives. Their names have been added to the obelisk.
My Dad lost a brother in infancy. We tried to locate his grave. Its simply not there anymore.
If care isnt paid for, the grave is reused for someone else.
Also interested if embalming is routine / usual practice where you do this work? I know for embalmed bodies the body is preserved for years and years, relative to environmental conditions. Personally I think embalming is extremely over rated and is a money making scam in majority of cases. I've had relatives not embalmed, but kept in the cold, at funeral homes for days until burial and I've seen them to say goodbye 5 and 6 days after they died. You couldn't see or smell anything 'bad'. Yet the undertakers push for u to pay for embalming under the guise your loved one will rot away and be in bad condition / you won't be able to see rhem after a day ot two without bad memories. Not the case at all!!!
Yes, I call shenanigans on embalming. We cremated my parents (they approved) and they wanted to embalm them for the viewing. Fill them up with 'natural' skin tones and formaldehyde. These chemicals return to the environment whether you are cremated or buried. Toxic.
It's a scam, the funeral homes make big bucks from it. Maybe for some it's a religious thing. In the end the deceased will disappear, the embalming will just delay that inevitable process a bit.
They must not use vaults much over in Europe. Here in the US they're used as a means to keep a void or depression from forming above ground from a decaying casket. In some of the older graves, a mower will ride over it and fall in several inches if it's heavy enough to crush the casket down below.
In the UK we don't generally use vaults...the wooden coffins are directly buried in the soil at depths ranging from 6 feet to 3 feet from the surface.
I have seen the depressions walking in the old graveyards. When vaults first began being used, the promoted them as preventing 'unsightly graves.'
I dont get why they burry people wont they run out of room one day
They are starting to already. Mandatory cremation incoming.
Yea it will by better if the bodys was use to file holes in the road rigth? 🤔
@@marcelomoos They're to soft and unstable for that.
@@marcelomoos no they can burn them or just put them in a compost burial place
@@JunkerDC during human history people try yo made soap from dead bodys burn them throw them on rivers fide wile animals etc ect.. its more a moral dilema than a practical solusion... there is meny options to keep neture going on but some of them a gros 👍
Every heartbeat seperates man from eternity
What about woman? 😮
You don't think laying on top a deceased child is anyway disrespectful by chance.. good worker though I'll give you that.
The grave is one year old, not the person buried in it. I think that standing on it is much more disrespectful than laying on it. What would sitting in it be? Can I stand in it but just move around the edges, where there are no remains underneath, to avoid being disrespectful? How to do it all respectfuly? I'm not being sarcastic, you presented a very Interesting problem. I think that it all varies very much and depends on the local culture. Thank you.
@@MartinsGraveyard I totally understand you need to stand above the body and move around whilst working,,it's the view looking up that's not necessary.(on that point I'll leave it there), like I said your a good worker.and I look forward to more videos...
The GRAVE is a year old NOT a one year old BABY!!
I ask myself the same thing…why do I watch things like this especially at night 😮
Why do you have to bury someone on top of this poor baby
There is no baby. The grave is one year old not the body inside. I wrote it in the description and said it in the video.
To give the dead head some company,they say it gets lonely down there 😮
Hello Sir. I have not been watching your channel all that long. And I am only taking a guess. But are these graveyards in France? From what I understand graves are only rented in france. But I thought that they could have the grave at least more than 1 year. It is very interesting to see how much of the mighty decomposes in the ground. I am basically talking about bones. Could you tell me what is the last bone that will usually break down and turn to dust? Thank you very much, and I love your channel.
Is not funny
Is not supposed to be
New subscriber here! Really cool channel 👍
Thanks! Welcome aboard.
This was really interesting. I was curious as to how you got up out of there...
I got out with the help of the shovel. I made a short video about it.
Knochen Job....ein echter Digger ☝️😄
bei uns alles mit Mini Bagger....
4:56 literally nobody
Martin: lets check out the view.
Imagine if that coffin collapsed when you were lying on top of it ? OMG !
He would have felt a dead leg 😮
My family have used the same burial plot in England for nearly 200 years since the parish churchyard became full. Previously they were buried in the crypt of the church or below the floor for several hundred years. The earliest I can find within the church is 1540 but I think the earlier pre-reformation memorials have just been lost when the protestants took over. The difference is that the current burial plot is brick-lined and has a capstone. It is getting rather full and I think the earliest burial was in 1879 with the most recent in 1999. There are several family burials elsewhere, for example in France where the deaths were the result of both wars and they merely have a stone plaque inside the church whilst one great uncle has his name on a stained/ coloured glass window together with others lost at sea when HMS Hood sank. I am wondering whether we should continue using wooden/ oak coffins or move towards the earlier method of using a simple wollen shroud. The Victorian coffins were made of elm wood and covered in black crepe or velvet decorated with brass upholstery nails but I think that is too overelabourate today. I don't like the American use of steel or iron caskets at all. They tend to turn the body within into wax mummies. We should talk about these issues with our children whilst we are still living. I have to say I am quite drawn to the idea of being buried in a simple woollen shroud.
(1) I thought my limit with weird TH-cam rabbit holes was all the zit popping and here I am watching multiple videos of exhumations. It's an education, and I salute you. (2) If this is a common situation in Europe why don't they bury the spouse deeper knowing that the surviving spouse might eventually join?
How do you ensure the hole does not collapse in on you, very risky!
Very interesting 👍
As I watched you dig I thought man you must be in great shape and then you said your back hurt. I guess you are not a super hero after all LOL.
It was not long after an accident in which I threw my back out. When it happened, I jumped right back into the grave to finish digging, with disc bulging. Then, one week lying in bed.
Hey Martin, I like your videos! 👍😉
Glad you like them 🙂