Taking Death Sky High: Vertical Cemeteries Around the World

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  • Опубліковано 27 січ 2025

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  • @sidcymraeg
    @sidcymraeg Рік тому +4

    Interesting as always .Some fanatastic bulidings. I am still for composting. Great work again,

  • @sushicat.3707
    @sushicat.3707 Рік тому +2

    I live in Yokohama, Japan. A few years ago, a rather modern-looking office building was built. Turns out, it’s not an office building. It’s a cemetery. Almost everyone here cremates, so it works much like the one in Tokyo mentioned in the video. The main difference is that this one is corporate- owned, and non- religious.

    • @sueladybird6923
      @sueladybird6923 3 місяці тому

      Typical
      ..capitalism! It's sickening that humanity has fallen to worship of the all mighty $...😢

  • @williamvanalen9414
    @williamvanalen9414 Рік тому +1

    If you haven't come across it yet look into the London Necropolis Railway in the UK or the Rookwood Cemetery railway line in Sydney NSW. The problem of where to put the dead in the days of mass urbanisation isn't a modern phenomenon. Keep up the good work.

  • @maryhildreth754
    @maryhildreth754 Рік тому +6

    I live in a small rural town, and a friend of mine buried her dad in her back yard. They had the funeral in the chapel at the funeral home in town and her husband had dug the hole with a backhoe. I imagine either one of the cemeteries around here lent them whatever lowering equipment was needed, or they figured something out. But, after the funeral, the procession went as usual and instead of everyone going to the cemetery, they went to her house, around the side and to the grave that was dug in the yard. She has a nice headstone for him that she ordered, and I suppose was delivered. I have no idea what will happen if they ever decide to move.
    Several years later she buried her dog next to him.
    I don't know anything about what permits she needed or where she would get them from, but if you're interested, I can certainly find out.

    • @TabooEducation
      @TabooEducation  Рік тому +5

      Yeh I know here in Aust you have to get a lot of permits and permissions. And it can only be done in certain areas, usually rural like your friends dad.

  • @Hill_Country_Violet
    @Hill_Country_Violet Рік тому +7

    Love your work! It wonderful getting a perspective on approach to death outside of the America-centric view.
    -From Texas, USA

  • @tarmaque
    @tarmaque Рік тому +2

    I can see in the future some private buildings being required to have a portion of wall on one or more levels dedicated to the storage of cremated remains. Not necessarily in the high traffic areas, but somewhere public. For example, if every high-rise in Tokyo had space for some graves their cemetery problem would disappear overnight. This in a culture where families regularly clean their graves and visit them on the anniversary of the death.
    But I won't hold my breath either. Personally I'm more in favor of composting, and interment in community memorial parks. No markers, except maybe a list on the gates. Then inside just paths and grass and trees and flower beds, where you can visit in the knowledge that your loved one is everywhere.

    • @beckyhoffbauer7030
      @beckyhoffbauer7030 Рік тому

      Not dissimilar to the Middle Ages when many churches and cathedrals had bodies buried in the walls and under the floors. Though not unlike today where the more money or prestige one had the more choice the location and more venerated you were within the church. Urgh. One way to keep the patriarchy going...

  • @davidg5898
    @davidg5898 Рік тому +3

    Speaking of vertical cemeteries, check out the Mexican cartel mausoleums in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Many are 3 stories tall, with solar power for air conditioning and satellite TV, and some even have jacuzzis. They're more about showing off wealth and power than saving space, though!

  • @Hair8Metal8Karen
    @Hair8Metal8Karen Рік тому +1

    Some of these buildings are beautiful! If burial is your thing, this would definitely be something to think about!

  • @NyanyiC
    @NyanyiC 3 місяці тому

    In Sweden, cemetaries are very well maintained and are used like public parks for running and jogging . This was culture shock for me as an Africa where one just does go and hang out in a cemetary

  • @KH-tt3wv
    @KH-tt3wv Рік тому +2

    It's fascinating to me how funeral and mortuary practices evolve over time, and the many different ways they balance the very practical need to not have bodies laying around, with the cultural and emotional needs of a community. I'm sure it's a difficult balance to strike at times. As someone who just wants a simple hole in the ground where I can be left to rot in peace, I admittedly find it a bit odd to consider being interred in a high-rise, but I can see the function and potential for beauty there, too. Perhaps my preferences will change as these solutions become more common over time. Not that it will matter much to me in the end, anyhow!
    To my mind, a diversity of options is the best way to serve the different needs of different people. There's no one right way to do it, and that's ultimately a good thing.

  • @Rotten_Ralph
    @Rotten_Ralph Рік тому +2

    Interesting how cultural patterns alter the environment. The need to know precisely where the remains are being stored definitely requires a structure of some sort. Have you seen the mummy houses? They bring their bodies out and clean them up and change their clothes. Ah I have to go research this practice now.
    I’m for being composted and donating my soil to the forest. It is a sad thing about my not leaving anyone behind, but I’m glad that we’re able to make this choice today

    • @TabooEducation
      @TabooEducation  Рік тому +2

      I think we have a video with something about the mummy houses. I'll see if I can find it...

    • @TabooEducation
      @TabooEducation  Рік тому +2

      Pretty sure it's in this video: ua-cam.com/video/_r0QBUbUQkY/v-deo.html

    • @beckyhoffbauer7030
      @beckyhoffbauer7030 Рік тому +1

      I love what you're contributing to the world's death conversation with an Aussie eye, heart and accent, Sam! There's a bit about the annual redressing of the dead and bringing them to the dining table in Caitlin Doughty's book, From Here to Eternity as Well. While I'm personally in favor of the being eaten by wolves or vultures or insects or whatever camp, these practices from other cultures have their own beauty and wonder. (Sorry, I live in the US, so those are my most familiar resources. I don't for a moment believe that we have all the answers and am humbly grateful to get these extended world views!)