Reburial of a Body 52 Years After Death

Here's me at work, doing a reburial of the body. I do an exhumation and then bury the remains deep enough to make space for a new person with the other one still in the same place but deeper. The weather was nice and warm and I had all the time in the world. It took me 2,5 hours with filming. The funeral was the next day. The remains lie directly underneath the new casket. It's a lack of space issue and it has nothing to do with the money as some of you claim. The body remains where it was, just a little deeper, to make some room for the new person. It's a normal thing in many countries around the world, everyone knows about it and is ok with it.
If you are curious what kind of music I was listening on my headphones, then I will dissapoint you by saying that most of the time I had them on just to keep my ears warm and in a few instances that they were turned on, I was listening to the Joe Rogan Podcast with Greg Fitzsimmons as a guest. I listened to just a few minutes, because there were a lot of people wandering around and preparing the graves for the upcoming All Saints Day, so it would be a strange sight to hear someone giggling while digging a grave. On top of that, I often find myself talking back to them like I would be in the studio or they could hear me.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Explanation and preparation
0:30 Measuring the grave with my feet
0:49 Initial digging (small roots)
1:49 Best way to unwrap Chupa Chups lollipop
1:59 Digging to the waist and hole enlargment
2:29 Measuring the grave with a banana
2:36 Finding an old milk bottle, piece of china and gold?
3:14 Roots penetrating like Klaus Schwab
3:43 Excavating a leg
4:48 Powdered foot in the sock
5:17 Preparing space for the remains on the side
5:28 Looking for the other leg
5:56 Missing leg mystery solved
6:17 Finding old latex gloves and paper like filler
7:03 Finding a pre WWII ceramic container
7:20 Examining the paper like filler
7:37 Metacarpal bone
8:04 I MEANT FEMUR!!
8:24 Wooden knot looking like a bone
8:45 The skull
9:46 Make a new spot for the reburial of the exhumed reamains
9:52 Everything that's left from that person
10:08 Putting the remains back into the same grave
10:24 Burying the remains and doing final touches
10:44 The Dead Man's View
11:04 Taping over the grave while eating the banana

[walkabout]

In the dead of night, beneath the moon's soft glow,
Mental Martin digs down low,
Fifty-two years have come and gone,
Yet he returns to the earth's dark dawn.

With shovel in hand and sweat upon his brow,
He digs with purpose, he knows not how,
For buried deep beneath the ground,
A femur waits, a secret found.

Through layers of dirt and forgotten dreams,
Martin digs deeper, or so it seems,
His mind a maze of twisted thought,
As he unearths what time has wrought.

The grave lies silent, a solemn space,
But Martin's hands know not of grace,
For in his madness, he seeks to find,
A bone long buried, left behind.

With trembling fingers, he touches the bone,
A relic of the past, now his own,
But in his triumph, there's no release,
Only the echoes of a mind at peace.

For Mental Martin, the grave digger's son,
His quest for solace has just begun,
In the depths of night, he'll always roam,
Digging up bones, to find his home.

[kennylunaaa]

They say we die twice, the first being our own death, and the second time is when the last person who remembered us dies.. After that, we’re forgotten.

[progmetalJorge]

Just a few decades and your bones just blends with the dirt like nothing, and very few people remain alive to remember you. It's like you never existed.

[edwardstawarz]

I still visit my dad's grave in a cemetery in Michigan I was 14 when he died 53 years later I still visit his grave

[heskeylator]

Crazy isn't it. This guy back in the 50s and 60s was going out to the shops, watching TV, driving around possibly. And today this is how he is. It's so simple really but mind boggling at the same time.

[miketaggard]

Glad you dug the guy up, hope he makes a full recovery.

[bqdavis]

To all those saying "who visits a Grave after 50 years", I say, I do. In New England old cemeteries are often cared for forever.

[corbettcharpentier]

I don't think I'll ever meet this guy, but if I do and he offers me a banana I think I'll pass

[ericad]

I find it both fascinating and sad that those brittle old bones are all that's left of what was once a living, breathing person. A person that had dreams and desires. A person with friends and relatives, who knew and loved him, some of whom might still be alive. It would be interesting to know a little about who he was, how old he was when he passed away, what he died from and what he was like when he was alive.

[justanothertestsubject]

crazy that even in death, we will get evicted for not paying rent.

in all seriousness though, awesome video, thanks for sharing it!

[Draxindustries]

Sad to see someone exhumed and treated this way. The grave is only 50 years old. I'm from the UK and many cemeteries around my town are many centuries old and all the graves are undisturbed, some are from circa 1700ad.
No, it's not illegal and this guy is only doing his job but sad to see all the same...

[AnonBiscuit]

I have a morbid curiosity for things like this, I've always wondered how things look under ground after years of being buried. Incredibly interesting and educational. Thank you for sharing.

[KCCardCo]

I was a gravedigger at one time in my life. I'm here in the USA and I used to dig cremation burials up to my waist. They used to tell me that I didn't have to go down that far but I did it as a courtesy, it always gave people peace of mind that it was deeper when they saw it. But having to dig through clay dirt with a shovel and not a backhoe to put one of those heavy Wilbert urn vaults was a pain in the ass. I remember one incident where I had to remove a baby who lived for one day and died in Germany and was sent to Michigan in 1978. His mother wanted him cremated and sent to Washington State where she lived and there was nothing left. I would say 98% 99% of his remains were gone, I found one piece of bone that resembled a chicken bone, baby bones are soft. I remember finding his rubber duck and washing that off and getting it ready when I put it in the box to send to Washington State. I remember when I was digging the hole by hand the funeral director was standing there with a bankers box and he said that there's nothing else left. The one thing that didn't disintegrate was a satin ribbon and the string that held the coffin lid but everything else was gone even the wooden box

[lorinkramer]

Man, you guys are brutal. "You don't pay, we dig you up and move you out!" Not to mention this person's been dead for 52 years. Brutal man, brutal...

[rayaznavorian]

I can’t think of anything more disrespectful or sad than evicting someone from their grave.

[timothygunckel]

I have relatives buried one hundred years that we still visit the graves. Stories about their lives are handed down from generation to generation.

[Will-nbqk]

The weird thing is, I always wanted to exhume an old grave for interests sake but you’ve saved me from doing it which has settled my curiosity.

[kimwood]

Seems very harsh. In Australia we pay for our plots, no ongoing fees. So much for eternal rest.😢

[bills.]

It's so strange how the clothes seemed to hold up better than most of the bones!

[sharonrigs]

Humidity really makes all the difference in decomp.
Many years ago I assisted with an exhumation in a dry, warm desert climate.
The remains were 80+ years old at the time, and everything was intact. Even the hair around the skull