Death And The Victorians
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- In London there is a company called Necropolis who specialise in relocating graves from old churchyards and crypts. Some of the sites are dilapidated and other burial places need to be removed for redevelopment. There are several pictures in this film which show some of the amazing archaeological discoveries found during and grave clearance process. Usually a body will decompose quickly once buried, but very occasionally decomposition will be completely halted leading to mumification. This offers archaeologists a fasinating and important glimpe into the past and gives us a clearer picture of the lives of our ancestors, ie dieases that effected them, how well they were nourished etc. Many of the diseases that people used to die of such as smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid to name but a few have since become obsolete in Britain, so great care must be taken when moving these bodies as it can be quite a dangerous and hazardous job, Also the original coffins are usually rotten so the human remains need to placed in a modern casket for transferal to the new burial site. Other pictures in this video are sad reminders of lives that have come and gone and of our own mortallity..
I always feel bad when I see graves of people whos names have long since washed away :( To think their lives,stories and loves have long since been forgotten along with their names
I understand that cemeteries are sometimes relocated for development but it just seems so wrong to disturb old graves that have been the "final" resting place for decades.
In victorian days the childhood mortality rate was very high, therefore sadly, most post mortem photographs of the period were of children.
You have not done Ghostwatching videos in 12-15 yrs, what happened?
I am a fan. Fascinating to see pictures of very preserved corpses & the dress of those eras.
& the music flows nicely with this video. Haunting & has an aurora to how both flow together.
Amazing I am no longer as afraid of death as i used to be because so many of my friends and family are passed over that i will see them all again when my time comes at least thats what i have come to believe..
+lake fire I like your imitation of this 1600's or 1700's English grammar. I think the English above is in that era?
Relocating the graves is anything but disrespectful. Sometimes this has to be done. People shouldn't be left in place under new parking lots...that would be horrible! As for looking at the bodies, well, I'm torn about that, but I have a comment. Because I love studying the way people have lived and died throughout history, I can concede that sometimes the dead can teach us things about history, culture, diseases, etc. I found this sad but alo interesting in a compassionate human way.
The beauty of life and the inevitable death even in my lifetime I have been witness to the comings and goings of friends and family. I drove to a place where my family members used to call home for years a place that at one time was filled with love and life that now is empty. Even sitting in the driveway of these homes I could feel the presents of their spirits and I wept for them. As I recorded for EVP they say, “We are still here”. This is my proof. Annie:)
I find this fascinating too, I can't stop watching videos about it.
I inherited a post mortem photo of my grandad's older sister who died when she was 5 years old in 1903. She was so beautiful. On the day of her funeral, her little brother was poorly so he was left with a relative. When they returned from burying little Maria. The little boy Tommy had passed away. Three weeks later their father died "of a broken heart". My grandad was 6 weeks old and never knew his Dad or sister and brother and his mother kept their portraits on a chain around her neck for the rest of her days. God rest all these dear souls.
Very nice. But wish they wouldn't disturb the bodies, too
Cristyn Lane you would be amazed at how many cemeteries have been moved. Originally the pipeline at the center of the Standing Rock controversy was planned to go through a cemetary. But the good Christians in the area made it plain that they would prefer another route--right through the Sioux reservation at Standing Rock, right through the river that the Sioux depend on. In that case, I think it would have been more acceptable to disturb the dead than to heap more troubles onto the long suffering Sioux.
I agree
You did a great job! I really enjoyed it!
I don't comment as often as I would like but I do continue to watch. Your videos are fascinating I almost can't keep up with you. When I can't sleep here I am at almost three AM on YT. Glad you are here! I feel the same that our spirits are one with the universe.
Take care.
Stopped by to see one of my favorite videos! You really did an amazing job presenting this.
Did you know Fleming didnt invent penicillin, he just got the credit for it.
It was actually pioneered by a humble man called Howard Florey and there is a brilliant drama on youtube about it called " Breaking the Mould" well worth a watch if youve got the time.
Your videos are amazing-I came across them by accident and Im glad I did-Thank You for posting them
I was moved as well. The music and the dead. They dance in silence. Drawn from the earth and aether; the last breath long done and down into darkness. The cloth and moustache were amazing.
A very touching video.... couldn't help crying........ thanks to the author !
Fascinating..it wasn't gruesome or scary, but beautiful and well done. Bravo!
Video's like these, with the deceased children, make me so glad I have my children, and they are healthy. Many of the children pictured probably passed from the simplest things, the flu, or an infection. We are so lucky to live in a time when most diseases have been wiped out, and there are medicines for so many other illnesses. I can't wait for school to get out so I can hug my children!
This is a beautiful video , GW - your channel continues to be so impressive.
One of my favorites! Came back to watch it again.
What a hauntingly beautiful video. Done so well. Love the mystical music. Really really makes you think.
I am a parttime Undertaker in the small town I live in. I remove bodies from many types of places and have seen many types of death. One could say, death is my hobby and I have a very deep respect for the dead and their loved ones. I watch videos on grave site removals and post mortem photos from the victorian times, it's like a history lesson.
Amazing video! Just fascinating!!! and you chose to do it tastefully too.
Haunting and touching at the same time. Must be a emotional job :(
Beautifully done and the music is haunting and lovely, well done !
Wrong to disturb the dead.
This is very sad yet the bodies look peaceful. Splendid job!
I've seen a lot of death in my time but watching this video I really feel a peacefulness... I even turn the music off on my first watch.
This was intense!!! Thank you, loved watching. Great music, beautiful pictures. Fantastic work!
I have got so morbid recently...I don't even know *how* I started watching this kind of video, but I find it oddly fascinating
i believe in the beauty of the human bodies, even in the dead.. this video was made with respct, so... beautiful.. gave me peaceful...
I agree with you! Both my parents insisted on being cremated. They wanted their ashes scattered on the ocean. I love the symbolism of Ash Wednesday and the remembrance that from dust we came and to dust we shall return. Cemeteries and inhumation has never meant anything to me. I also told my son that I want to be cremated with my ashes placed at sea.
Fascinating. Nicely done video, with sensitivity and respect.
Well that was pretty incomprehensible. It could have been good and interesting if there had been a bit of information and continuity.
Agreed.
you have no idea what respect is do you?
tornadoe13 What is disrespectful about wanting to have some sort of explanation for (a) the particulars of why this graveyard is being dug up and (b) the relevance if any of the photos mixed up in the filming and (c) less of the strange jangly music which seemed to be totally out of place with the film.
if you had read the intro you would understand. Sigh I guess I have to explain it to you.. The film is about a company called necropolis that clears graveyards for redevelopment. The clips are of some of the best preserved remains that they have found that didn't have any embalming techniques used on them. All the bodies where once living people and it is amazing to see just how well preserved they are.
I hope that is clear enough for you.
Thank you for posting. I found this video very interesting!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR ANSWER. IT CLEARED MY DOUBTS. IM VERY INTERESTED IN THESE CULTURAL ASPECTS, THANK YOU AGAIN.
Beautifully and respectfully done.
Saddest thing about these times ,
was the high infant mortality rate,
a walk around any Victorian era
cemetery is a sobering experience.
thanks to man like jenner
Pasteur and Alexander
Fleming, we dont experience
anything like those death
rates now. I salute them.
I found your video haunting, expressive and moving. We are all going to die someday, and I get a sense of peace with your offering. Thank you G.W. Thank you...
wow this is truely amazing please make more like this
Oh, and your videos are well done and beautiful.
What ever happened to *Rest in Peace*.
splendid haunting & thought provoking music- excellent video of a difficult subject.
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:2
In other words: we can learn much more at a funeral or grave than at a party.
I don't understand what that means...should we in fact hope and pray for much more to pass, yet prey for a party not fall upon us.. I guess maybe I don't understand the interpretation house of the living meaning a party.and or house of death meaning a funeral
wow very intresting very educational, it must of been hard back then to hold their loved ones in their arms and took a picture especially with the babys, Thank you for sharing
Fantastic video, Thanks For sharing!
this is so beautiful in such a creepy way.... fascinating to see the people from centuries past, how they lived and how they treated the dead...
the poem at the very beginning is very victorian!! people dont write like that anymore...
This was a moving video to me. very well done
Extremely interesting video. Fascinating!
Amazing research and photos, extremely haunting video.
Death is but a passing like a black rose placed upon cold lips there is beauty in sorrow
Glad to see someone here who has some sense of reality :)
Beautifully done... Very respectful...
very interesting video. The Moment Mori's are so uncomfortably beautiful... Jerlins
@guppypartz Thank you very much 4 clearing up my foggy notions abt early photography. Now I know what preceded what and when. TY 4 yr accurate and interesting information. I totally rely on other more knowledgeable YT ppl like you to put me right each time I make a guess or supposition. You guys have taught me a great deal, correcting my often wrong view of things and I am grateful. No one likes to appear ignorant or close minded, especially me, since I'm so voluble and opinionated. TY guppyguy!
Excellent. my sentiments exactly. You are very wise young man!
Came back by to watch one of my favorite videos! How are you? Wonderful I hope.. My son's father just passed away and I wanted to take a picture - couldn't since general society now thinks such an art is perverse...
Wow. I remember them talking about pictures taken of dead family members in, "The Others," but I thought it was just part of the story line.
Very interesting, GhostWatching, thank you once again for your beautiful work.
Great vid,nice work :)
You have to keep in mind that the bodies that are being exhumed are of people who died a LONG TIME AGO, who probably have no known living ancestors. It is also of fascinating historical interest.
Amazing...I would hope that MY ancestors would be treated with as much dignity.
This was a very touching video! Especially the part with the babies!! Death in reality is a part of life( A very painful Part) But never the less a part we have to except. I myself can't stand the thought of being locked up in a box under the ground. I want my ashes to be thrown up into the air so my spirit will be set free. Thanks for posting this vid, I always look forward to your films!!
Very interesting and an excellent presentation. Another reminder that death waits for us all. Have to say, that in the case of children the sadness seems to linger. Have a colleague whom is a coroner and he maintains that children are the most difficult to work with. I can well believe it.
Nicely done!Interesting!
Ok, this has to be the creepiest video on RUclips to date. I'll have nightmares tonight for sure.
Thankyou for your comment. You See, the problem is in Britain we are a very small overcrowded island with millions of buried ancestors, and so there is a dilema, either build on top of the graves or move them to another place to accomdate the living..Rightly or wrongly, I dont think anyone involved is happy doing it, but thats just life I guess. Very soon we'll all have to live in boats, if the population carries on growing! All the best.
That is a great photo of the ghostly monks in Tintern Abbey. Maybe a little 'thank you' for all your work.
Nicely done, GhostWatching. Cheers.
the music is so pretty, what is it? also, what is that poem at the beginning?
fascinating video, than you so much!! :]
Absolutely fascinating!
Trust me, the victorians were fascinating people. Their affiliation with death was both disturbing and beautiful. Honestly, I have no idea what will become of traditional ways of looking at death, I just hope that peaceful places such as cemetaries stay intact... You're welcome by the way :3
The dead shouldn't need to be disturbed. I can't imagine why someone would choose a cemetery as the place they went to build a new shopping center, but it's good this company is relocating them so the dead can find peace somewhere else.
It was either on channel 4 or BBC- they do tend to do quite a lot of films like this in England, as there is an interest in such things. there was a brilliant one where they disinterred a burial ground in London, every bone and body had to be reburied elsewhere, and inside the lead coffins were ''perfect'' people from the mid nineteenth century. It was a film about ''Necropolis''. Maybe online. The catacombs of Paris have many thousand skulls, and they search your bags -thefts occur of skulls.
Thanks again!
How beautiful and fascinating!
Beautiful and interesting video
Wow, congratualations, it is both beautiful, uncanny and sad...
btb GW diseases never become 'obsolete' unless they were a manufactured strain 2 begin with. generally anything 'obsolescent' dies out overnight. generally only the very latest model germs, bugs and pathogens survive the onslaught of other germs, bugs and pathogens...love yr channel! keep up the great playlists! don't become obsolete on me!!cheers mackie
We had a wonderful chemistry teacher who told us of bodies so well preserved by their lead coffins that they were recognisable as actual people from the day they died, but that as soon as the air got to them they began to decay...we were fascinated...this was in 1976, and I think he must have known of a company that did this type of reburial work. So strange to look at a face from another era...I remember the prog when it was shown...the workers wanted cremation for themselves..''Warmer''!
What beautiful music! I'll have to scope out the comments and see if it is named anywhere. The sunset pic at the end is amazing.
But those poor sweet little babies. :( I know infant mortality rate was high, but still, seeing those little faces.
Have you ever seen photos of the catacombs in---oh where was that--Italy I think. The place the monks take care of, where the bodies are not buried by request of the deceased. Before dying.
Hi Weeknightingale, Thankyou for continuing to watch and comment on my videos. Yes, I think that when we die we leave our shell behind but the real us, our spirit or soul travels on, our body is just a vessel that contains us for the brief time we are on this earth.
Create any new videos lately?
looking at something is really amazing and to feel how family sticks together like The Victorians very in near century’s and following each person at a time:) details,and what happened it be nice.
Amazing video. I fell really sad that they move coffins with dead people only because they need that place for buried another people. I wouldn't like anyone to disturbance me when I'm dead. So why disturbance the dead people, may they R.I.P.
And about moving the dead, my viewpoint is that from what I understand, it *had* to be done. And also it looked like the workers were being very gentle and respectful.
beautiful video.
Hence another reason why I do not want to be buried. A wasteful of money at best as well. Instead of sending my child off to college or donation to a good charity, the 10K to 15K funeral was wasteful. Just my personal opinion not all share, but it is one I am against when it comes to burial.
I agree, it is fascinating.
Amazing!!!
Ghost Watching - What music do you use here? It's very beautiful - a music of departure.
The guy at 3:13 I am jelly of his stash his Mustache.
Again, it is true. I saw a number of funeral photographs and "sleeping pose" photos going through my own family photographs. In previous times, it wasn't considered macabre, or unseemly at all to photograph dead relatives before burial. Especially so with children and infants.
While it's not surprising, it still amazes me how high mortality among children and infants was compared to modern day.
Actually one of my forensic anthropology professors was involved in relocating a forgotten cemetery in NYC. No wrath reported there.
omg...why did i watched this?...it will haunt me forever...
Amazing!
I HAVE to stop watching these videos at 1:00 in the morning....
@TudorRose85 I know it has been 2 years since your comment here; but, I was wondering if you could explain the conditions of the ground your great grandmother was laid to rest in. Maybe it would be possible for somebody to duplicate the conditions of the grounds/soil for such preservation of their loved ones (theoretically.) I am extremely curious about that. Thank you for sharing that TudorRose85. I'm glad I stumbled upon your comment.
Especially if you take into consideration that I don't think the coffin's were put into vaults like they do today which makes it more amazing.
The preserved clothes, delicate lacy things were most interesting to me. I would want to study them closely. Time capsule stuff.
At 0:26 that girl looks quite young. It must've been so sad back then when young mothers lost their babies to diseases.
Why is everyone in the comments so against digging up bodies?
They are dead and its been a long time...this stuff is fascinating