Next time you are in New Orleans check out Metairie cemetery. It’s huge. Many beautiful tombs with stained glass windows at the back and really beautiful sculptures.
The lower level is called the cluvot. A year and a day. The sextant comes, opens the tomb. Removes the casket. Puts any remains in a burlap sack with the body tag ( personal info) and drops it into the cluvot. Within the next year the bag will disintegrate and there will be cremains and tags left. Most tombs accommodate two bodies at once.
Man, do I miss being able to go to New Orleans every other weekend... now I'm hours away... oh shoot there's a lock on the gate now... You used to be able to walk in there... guess the family decided to lock it up.
We were going to New Orleans and I wanted to see historic Lafayette Cemetery. I tried to book a tour. It was temporarily closed for “restoration”. The woman on the phone told me it was closed for cleanup because it was being vandalized and people were sleeping in it at night, drinking, using it as a toilet, trash everywhere. You can really see the perpetual care tombs. So clean and restored.
If bodies are left to decompose on the front does the whole cemetery stink awfully as all the bodies decompose before they are bagged up in a year or so ?
Not sure I believe everything the tour guides say. You should read about the Girod Street Cemetery, where it was is now under the parking for the super dome, it was a hot mess when they cleaned it out to tear down. Seems most of the bodies were just dumped.
The receiving vaults you describe into which the remains of previous burials are deposited only exist in multi-level mausoleums, and are only placed there when necessary, such as when space is needed and the tomb is crowded with bagged remains. The two-level family tombs don’t have receiving vaults at the rear. When a new burial occurs the caretakers open the tomb and assess which casket has the most deterioration and will open that casket. The remains within are then bagged up (in heavy plastic, not in burlap) with proper ID and placed at the rear of the tomb, OR they are reinterred in another casket (upper or lower) in the vault. (For instance, my parents and one grandmother are in a mausoleum wall vault. My mother was first; my grandmother was second. My mother’s coffin was pushed back to make room for my grandmother. When it came time to bury my father, my grandmother’s remains were bagged and placed into my mother’s coffin. Her coffin was removed and discarded and my father’s took its place. Unless there is a limit to how many burials are permitted, this can go on for years.) It’s not the policy of any local cemetery to arbitrarily open tombs in “a year and a day” and disturb the remains for no reason. Opening tombs and clearing vaults is costly and time consuming, so it is only done when a new burial is to take place or if some situation (like repairs) necessitates it. The “year and a day” applies if there’s need for a new burial within that timeframe. In that case, the newly deceased would typically be placed in a new tomb or a temporary tomb where they will spend a year and a day before being removed and placed in the family tomb or vault. There are exceptions; generally, if there’s no smell and nothing to offend the family, a new burial may go forward. I have family all over No. 3. Some of those really old stacked mausoleums are so full they can no longer receive new burials. One of our family vaults is permanently sealed because it is full, and the receiving vaults are also full.
This is from when you went last year? Love N.O. last time i was there was 1980. Great place great food good people. At least last time i was there❤ Stay dry heard another rain system was headed that way❤
It always seems odd to me, if you are going to let bodies shake and bake, why not just go for a cremation? I was raised Catholic so I get preserving the corporal body or whatever, but pushing the people leavings into a sack? I dunno just seems so disrespectful to the body.
@@mr.slothington4517 one of my tour guides even said the way we do things with our dead may disturb you or shock you but to us it’s part of our culture.
If your remains are so old that no one is left to take care of them ? Perpetual care lasts only as long as there are people alive to take care of the crypt ? Maybe this entire place will be destroyed and the bones will become catacombs? It’s hard to speculate what the future holds but I find cemeteries very fascinating!
Although the water table is high, they are not interred above ground because of this. Its traditional. You can go to any cemetery of that period in the Caribbean/ French/ Spanish area and they are mostly above ground way above any water table. The water table reason thing is a myth.
Beautiful cemetery. All these mausoleums and crypts are fascinating. Great walking tour, thank you very much Tony. Have a great day. 😊
Just wanted to say I appreciate your easy-going attitude and delivery in your videos.
Thank you… just being me 😁
Excellent job. Looks like a lovely day in Nawlins.
The Red River Pilots Association is likely steam boat pilots who navigated the boats along the river routes.
Very interesting I would love to travel there. Thank you for doing this.
Any time!
Next time you are in New Orleans check out Metairie cemetery. It’s huge. Many beautiful tombs with stained glass windows at the back and really beautiful sculptures.
all these elaborate Graves, but in the end its rotting in shelves.
The lower level is called the cluvot. A year and a day. The sextant comes, opens the tomb. Removes the casket. Puts any remains in a burlap sack with the body tag ( personal info) and drops it into the cluvot. Within the next year the bag will disintegrate and there will be cremains and tags left. Most tombs accommodate two bodies at once.
Man, do I miss being able to go to New Orleans every other weekend... now I'm hours away... oh shoot there's a lock on the gate now... You used to be able to walk in there... guess the family decided to lock it up.
27:18 Both Age 1 day - Passed away 1 day after birth 🥺
Thank you for the wonderful tour! Stay safe and eat a beignet for me!😂😂
Oh I did! Haha
We were going to New Orleans and I wanted to see historic Lafayette Cemetery. I tried to book a tour. It was temporarily closed for “restoration”. The woman on the phone told me it was closed for cleanup because it was being vandalized and people were sleeping in it at night, drinking, using it as a toilet, trash everywhere. You can really see the perpetual care tombs. So clean and restored.
Yeah, I didn’t get a chance to see more than three cemeteries while I was there hopefully next time.
@@CryptDoor well. thats not why!!!! LOL
Awesome video 📷😊😊😊💯💯
Super cool!
If bodies are left to decompose on the front does the whole cemetery stink awfully as all the bodies decompose before they are bagged up in a year or so ?
I didn’t smell anything
lovely place well looked after cheers
Just like walking through a town with sidewalks. Awesome tour. Thanks.
It totally does seem like a town. And I’ve only encountered that a couple of other times, in other cemeteries.
Not sure I believe everything the tour guides say. You should read about the Girod Street Cemetery, where it was is now under the parking for the super dome, it was a hot mess when they cleaned it out to tear down. Seems most of the bodies were just dumped.
I know I get the thing about the tour guides just passing on what I was told and it was more than one tour guide that told us on different tours
@@CryptDoor they are quite the showman!!! But they do have some good info.
Thank You! It's a one of the most beautiful cemetery in the USA!❤
Oven crypts are rather fascinating.
The receiving vaults you describe into which the remains of previous burials are deposited only exist in multi-level mausoleums, and are only placed there when necessary, such as when space is needed and the tomb is crowded with bagged remains. The two-level family tombs don’t have receiving vaults at the rear. When a new burial occurs the caretakers open the tomb and assess which casket has the most deterioration and will open that casket. The remains within are then bagged up (in heavy plastic, not in burlap) with proper ID and placed at the rear of the tomb, OR they are reinterred in another casket (upper or lower) in the vault. (For instance, my parents and one grandmother are in a mausoleum wall vault. My mother was first; my grandmother was second. My mother’s coffin was pushed back to make room for my grandmother. When it came time to bury my father, my grandmother’s remains were bagged and placed into my mother’s coffin. Her coffin was removed and discarded and my father’s took its place. Unless there is a limit to how many burials are permitted, this can go on for years.) It’s not the policy of any local cemetery to arbitrarily open tombs in “a year and a day” and disturb the remains for no reason. Opening tombs and clearing vaults is costly and time consuming, so it is only done when a new burial is to take place or if some situation (like repairs) necessitates it. The “year and a day” applies if there’s need for a new burial within that timeframe. In that case, the newly deceased would typically be placed in a new tomb or a temporary tomb where they will spend a year and a day before being removed and placed in the family tomb or vault. There are exceptions; generally, if there’s no smell and nothing to offend the family, a new burial may go forward. I have family all over No. 3. Some of those really old stacked mausoleums are so full they can no longer receive new burials. One of our family vaults is permanently sealed because it is full, and the receiving vaults are also full.
Thanks for clarifying. I was just going by what I was told on the tour I took. I took actually more than one tour on different cemeteries.
@@CryptDoor Did you visit Holt Cemetery?
@@alyneorleans5018 briefly, it was towards the end of the day and tour. they were closing up soon
When they dump the sacks full of bones in the back, what do they do with the coffins they were in?
I’m sure they discard them
I’ve taken plenty of video at St. Louis number 1. Also without tour guides. Is the tour requirement new?
Yeah, I guess they had some problems in there over the years so now it’s tour only from what I was told.
I bet it’s creepy there at night
This is from when you went last year? Love N.O. last time i was there was 1980. Great place great food good people. At least last time i was there❤ Stay dry heard another rain system was headed that way❤
RIP to all.🙏
No mausoleum for me. At some point in time they fall apart and then what? Vandalism.
It's way nicer than #1.
It always seems odd to me, if you are going to let bodies shake and bake, why not just go for a cremation? I was raised Catholic so I get preserving the corporal body or whatever, but pushing the people leavings into a sack? I dunno just seems so disrespectful to the body.
It’s the way they do it there I was told it’s the culture
@@CryptDoor Yep no doubt its just tradition to them. 👍
@@mr.slothington4517 one of my tour guides even said the way we do things with our dead may disturb you or shock you but to us it’s part of our culture.
If your remains are so old that no one is left to take care of them ? Perpetual care lasts only as long as there are people alive to take care of the crypt ? Maybe this entire place will be destroyed and the bones will become catacombs? It’s hard to speculate what the future holds but I find cemeteries very fascinating!
Cremation makes the most sense. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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If you will look to your left ground level ,you will see a bunch of names.
Show the names and speak into the mic please.
Right on, you will find plenty of videos on this channel where I do show names and read them.
Nicholas Cage has a pyramid shaped mausoleum that he had erected for himself in one of the cemeteries there.
Although the water table is high, they are not interred above ground because of this. Its traditional. You can go to any cemetery of that period in the Caribbean/ French/ Spanish area and they are mostly above ground way above any water table. The water table reason thing is a myth.
Never understood why a body isn’t buried 6 ft under not just slotted into a concrete slab above ground
They can't because of the high water table
13:58 skeleton keyhole lol
? …Was it not?
You don't see the humour in a skeleton key/keyhole in a cemetery?@@CryptDoor
This is why I want to be cremated. Don’t want my family to deal with this kind of BS.