The fascinating history of cemeteries - Keith Eggener
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2018
- Check out our Patreon page: / teded
View full lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/the-fascin...
Spindly trees, rusted gates, crumbling stone, a solitary mourner: these things come to mind when we think of cemeteries. But not long ago, many burial grounds were lively places, with gardens and crowds of people -- and for much of human history, we didn’t bury our dead at all. How did cemeteries become what they are today? Keith Eggener delves into our ever-evolving rituals for honoring the dead.
Lesson by Keith Eggener, directed by Remus & Kiki.
Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Mary Sawyer, David Rosario, Samuel Doerle, Susan Herder, Prasanth Mathialagan, Yanira Santamaria, Dawn Jordan, Constantin Salagor, Kevin Wong, Umar Farooq, Goh Xiang Ting Diana, Cristóbal Medina Moenne, MJ Tan Mingjie, Yansong Li, Jason A Saslow, Henry Li, Kyle Nguyen, Taylor Hunter, Noa Shore, Lex Azevedo, Merit Gamertsfelder, Bev Millar, Rishi Pasham, Jhuval, SookKwan Loong, Daniel Day, Nick Johnson, Bruno Pinho, Javier Aldavaz, Marc Veale, Boytsov Ilya, maxi kobi einy, Misaki Sato, Andrew Bosco, Nik Maier, Mark Morris, Tamás Drávai, Adi V, Peter Liu, Leora Allen, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Julie Cummings-Debrot, Gilly , Ka-Hei Law, Maya Toll, Aleksandar Srbinovski, Ricardo Rendon Cepeda, Renhe Ji, Andrés Melo Gámez and Tim Leistikow.
we need to replace gravestones with trees...more symbolic of life and also environmentally beneficial :D
The negative perception of cemeteries is a grave issue.
Imagine thou'rt in the churchyard, weeping heavily before the grave of thine deceased kin, and there's just a merchant a few paces away shouting, "dost thou wanna buy a funny hat? FUNNY HATS FOR SAAALE!"
One of the best cemetery trends I've heard of recently is putting them on the edge of parklands and nature preserves to create a more natural buffer between development and protected lands (which developers often want to build right up to the edge of). But putting cemeteries around the land, it keeps buildings and roads further away and allows nature more space to thrive. I LOVE this idea and hope to see more of it.
I would prefer to bury the dead with no coffin and plant a tree on it; so the death can bring life, and if it is a fruit tree the better, that means food as well. Imagine if that becomes a common practice: the Cemeteries will be forests
This animator is fantastic. Never have I been so visually entertained by graves.
I read it as "The fascinating history of CENTIMETERS"
The narrators voice made it even more mysterious and magical.
For me the cemetery my late son is buried is one of my "happy" places... I don't reject it - I accept that feeling/ emotion for what it is. A comfort zone for a grieving mother..
"Wadi Al-Salam" means valley of peace btw
I love cemeteries. I wish we’d put more information on headstones but even with limited information cemeteries are fascinating ways to see into our past.
Went to a education camp with my class. Our guide took us on a hike to a graveyard where we all sat and had a picnic. After eating, everyone wandered around looking at tombstones. It was kinda cool.
When I was a kid my friend and I would sometimes spend Saturday afternoons walking through cemeteries reading headstones. We made a game of it. Whoever found the oldest grave won. I remember feeling bad for the really old ones, some dating back the 1830's. I thought, here's someone nobody even remembers let alone visits. I made up my mind at that time to never be buried. I didn't want to end up as some old forgotten soul no one cared about hanging around a graveyard. But as I move closer to the end of the ride my thoughts have started to shift. My parents were both cremated and we spread their ashes at sea but now we have no place to visit them. I'm not sure who will visit me but perhaps having a little marker showing that you existed isn't such a bad thing.
The narrators voice brought life to story and amazing animation as always.
While I was Houseless and Living on the Streets, i would often seek refuge in a Cemetery for a peaceful night of Sleep.
My mum used to enjoy a walk around the local cemetery. She would read every tombstone she viewed. She is now in that cemetery and I will continue her tradition every time I visit her grave. I will read every tombstone along the journey to hers and find peace in my heart for those who have passed, even if be in anguish.
"When I die, I want my remains scattered around Disneyland. Also, I don't want to be cremated."
The way we bury the dead also show our relationship with death in general. We mourn the loss but we also find peace within knowing our relatives are among us in our memories. I think it would be a cool idea to see cemeteries revert back to large, colorful gardens where people's remains are used to help the soil grow trees and flowers. It could be good mentally as it would maybe help people see death not as a fearful or terrible end but rather just a part of the cycle of life as well as a way to also celebrate the lives that their passed love ones lived.
I find cemeteries peaceful and beautiful. My husband thinks I’m crazy, but I would absolutely hang out and have a picnic next to my Grandpa’s grave.
4:46