Some have no respect for the living so the dead have no chance. Shameful

@@shirleyn546 I just read something in my local newspaper about a grave of a baby that was vandalized. Someone came and took some of the items the family put there. What are people thinking when they do this stuff? My heart breaks for that family😢

That tells us that not all of us are normal beings

There's zero health risks lmao. That's a myth.

​@@maryannschwittek4984It's really ashamed that some people have no respect whatsoever for anything or anyone.

Yep, letting you know they were saying hello 🙂

I don't know if you'd like to read my thoughts on this - it's quite long, but some people may find this very interesting - and very shocking. Particularly if you are not a traveller to most third-wold countries. Either way, please feel free to read on, or scroll by as you wish. In our culture, parents should teach their children about respect in general ... but what I refer to as "permissive parenting" has become de rigeur. I wonder if anyone has ever explained that no one likes their kids? Clearly not. But please don't misunderstand my meaning - I've always said that there is no grey area between discipline and child abuse - and anyone with a brain really should know the difference. But personally, I would be so far beyond utterly ashamed to find out that a child of mind has ever done something as disrespectful as to desecrate someone's final resting place!! And this is the same in every culture. That said, I have to mention culture as to HOW we perceive all facets of life, and death - especially in death, given the subject matter. I have witnessed hundreds of grave evictions in the Philippines when I used to live there. I would take boxes of fruit and non-perishables twice a week to the children of families who live in the city cemeteries of Manila, where poverty and homelessness have driven them to live... Some families have made their homes in these cemeteries for decades - often after moving to the largest cities from the Provinces in search of jobs that don't exist - they leave their traditional homes in Provincial villages to find a better life for themselves and their children. But once they arrive in the cities there is often nowhere else to go, and very little employment - so they make their homes in Manila's dozens of huge cemeteries. Those who can find a family plot with a roof over their heads will literally live on top of the graves that have been built with shelters over the top and most of these will have :walls around them made of lacy wrought iron or aluminium, and most often these plots will even have a lockable gate. They will tap into the power supply illegally to run a light or lamp and electrical appliances - even utilising little bar-fridges if they can possibly afford it. The graves themselves serve as tables and benches during the day, and as platforms for their beds at night - but there is no disrespect here .. I'm afraid that the necessities of abject poverty and over-crowding dictates their way of life, and death, and the cemeteries provide a favourable alternative to literally living under a cardboard box on busy city sidewalks and narrow streets. There were around 1000 inhabitants living in one small Catholic cemetery that I used to take the boxes of food to - many of these being young children who would wait for me at the gate to see what I would bring for them. The level of abject poverty in the cities is astounding and very shocking to any Westerner of every background to begin with .. It really has to be seen to be believed!! It's one of those situations where just when you think you have seen everything - you realised that you absolutely have not! At first I nearly fell over when I learned that, as a result of over-population in major cities like Manila with something like 23 million, that unless one can afford to purchase or rent a family plot, then the terms for interments in cemeteries are only for 5 years, and thereafter the families must pay yearly fees for their loved ones to remain interred in the tombs, which are formed of row upon row of concrete "outdoor mausoleums" which are stacked up to ten tombs high and can be half a kilometre long, depending on the particular cemetery. One of the largest city cemeteries I used to go to covers 54 hectares - or about 21 acres - with around 1.4 million interments and burials, and an estimated 10,000 living inhabitants. Interments in the city cemeteries are so limited that on the 5th anniversary from the date of the interment, if the family cannot afford the fees to keep their loved one buried or interred for the next year - then the remains are literally evicted from the tomb. Unfortunately, many families simply cannot afford these fees. As one parent of a two-year old girl who had passed away unexpectedly, they explained to me that their living children must be their priority, so that what money they earned was needed to put food on the tables of the living - and I understood that this has to be accepted. The occupant's tombs are smashed open, whereupon the coffins are broken up while the human remains are removed and placed in whatever kind of bag that the cemetery workers may have to hand. It is traditional for the families to arrive at the cemetery in person to collect the remains on the day of the anniversary - and many families opt to very respectfully collect the remains from the tombs themselves, which are then taken home with them where they will boil the remains from the bones and scrape them until they are cleaned, and then these are kept in an elaborately-carved wooden "bone box" for safe-keeping. I've seen these lovely boxes of bones stacked at the foot of private family alters which many Filipinos have inside their own homes, being devoutly Catholic. But if the family does not arrive prior to or on the day the 5th anniversary of the interment, then the remains are evicted - which literally entails jamming them into the bag by the cemetery workers - who also clean out the tomb and prepare it to receive a new occupant, usually by the end of the same day. A new name-plaque will be set in place of the old one to seal up the entrance. The evicted remains inside the bag are then taken to the ossuary, which is a massive communal pile of bones that is usually located at the very rear of the cemetery, where it will bleach in the tropical sun for all eternity. I've often seen the cemetery children even playing on the ossuary - which is of grave health-concerns, as these remains are only 5 years old when evicted ... so much of the flesh is still on the bones, and I noticed that some bodies that have been evicted from the uppermost rows tend to dry out, and are sometimes still almost recognisable as they can become mummified under certain conditions. I know how this must sound very shocking, as I was incredulous when I first witnessed a grave eviction - until the whole process was explained to me. In this culture of massive over-population and abject poverty, necessity dictates that it be done this way. It is not being disrespectful - in fact, the Philippines is a devout Catholic country, and the whole nation both celebrates ALL SOULS WEEKEND every year - a 3 day festival of visiting their ancestors at the cemeteries. For 3 days straight the whole country practically shuts down, as everyone heads to the cemeteries to honour their deceased ancestors. But for the rest of the year the constant daily grave evictions are a way of life for those poverty-stricken families who have lost a loved one in the past 5 years. I've heard that this is also the way of things in Nicaragua and some other Central American countries - but the initial interments there, which are also contained within very similar concrete "outdoor mausoleums", are only agreed upon for FOUR YEARS!! However, in Nicaragua if the fees aren't paid, the remains are not collected by the families, then the evicted remains are likely to end up being put out for the trash-collectors, rather than going to an ossuary! A Greek friend of mine explained that in many parts of Greece the burials are usually only agreed to be "paid for" for a a period of 15 years, and thereafter the bodies are disinterred and are send to a charnel house for cremation. Again, this is out of necessity in many parts of that country in order to make room for new burials. I just wanted to point out that what we consider "respect of the dead" in our culture is not, and sometimes cannot, be applied to other cultures .. What they consider to be perfectly normal would shock most of us But even in the stark contrast between what we consider to be respect, and theirs - they would no more deliberately disrupt the peace of the deceased by acts of vandalism - no more than we would! Clearly, the acts of desecration we see evidence of in this video is not acceptable in any country or culture!!

Creepy wasn't it Pamela 😮

@@GraveVisitations It sure was GV.🤪

Great comment!

Absolutely true. No point being the richest person in the graveyard hey

@@GraveVisitations absolutely.

@@GraveVisitations I just found your channel a few days ago and really enjoy the we have a small local grave yard 6 mins from us it's only small but well looked after

​@@GraveVisitationsI am not good at funerals as I get the giggles

@@josh6715 oh no 😂

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Very creepy graveyard surely haunted

@Sandra-dm8rd Roman Numerals 😄 Once upon a time I learned those in math class 🤣

@@acinominnovations2807 ..yes IV Is 4... Latin math was not advanced they based Number on sum operation rather than on multiplication.

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Popping everywhere it seems Irene lol

Hope they didn't think I was trump

I didn't stay to long tho lol it felt strange this place

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I wouldn't think so pat

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Ah ye not that bad lol history can't be changed unfortunately we can only learn in the present

So very true best live in the present , love your videos and your soothing commentary ​@@GraveVisitations

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It was definitely vandalism because it was on a newspaper article

I'm sorry to hear about this, that is terrible. I really don't understand people like this

It's terrible people have to that they wouldn't like it done to their family graves

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And by all means it doesn't say that you are not doing a fantastic job, its about respect to the deceased. I think he felt dissed.❤️

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@@hoosierdaddy2308 thanks Tim