#cemetery — Public Fediverse posts

Spent yesterday at Boroondara Cemetery in Kew, Victoria. One of the nicest garden cemeteries I've come across in Australia. The volunteers there do an enormous job keeping it all from being swallowed up by the greenery.
#Melbourne #Victoria #Cemetery #Kew

Emmy Mourning the Forcibly Departed

#art #traditionalart #penandink #drawing #doodles #watercolor #illustration #gothic #gothgirl #cemetery #blackrose #originalcharacters #scififantasy

#silverchair × #bomfunkmcs

https://youtube.com/shorts/G8_BiZ2mI-8

#mashup #mix #music #fyp #edit #viral #followme #cemetery #freestyler

I'm putting this out for any Jews who feel like they don't want to criticize another denomination.

This is bullshit. There is no religious reason to bar suicides from our cemeteries. Not facilitating funerals is your choice, of course, but it's cruel to the living. What's next? Shrimp and tattoos? Meh.

"A landmark letter on #MAID, approved recently by #Toronto’s main #Orthodox #rabbinical council—also called the #VaadHaRabbanim—is sounding the alarm about what the group notes is the increasing prevalence of medically assisted death making “inroads” into the local #Jewish community. Citing the figure of 5,000 patients in #Ontario in 2023 who the council describes as being “#euthanized by medical practitioners”, the leading rabbis said they need to take steps to “curb this disturbing trend”: going forward, they will not officiate at the #funerals of MAID patients and will refuse to permit MAID patients to be buried in plots in their #synagogues’ #cemetery sections."

https://thecjn.ca/news/why-torontos-orthodox-rabbis-wont-officiate-maid-funerals-or-provide-burial-plots/

I'm putting this out for any Jews who feel like they don't want to criticize another denomination.

This is bullshit. There is no religious reason to bar suicides from our cemeteries. Not facilitating funerals is your choice, of course, but it's cruel to the living. What's next? Shrimp and tattoos? Meh.

"A landmark letter on #MAID, approved recently by #Toronto’s main #Orthodox #rabbinical council—also called the #VaadHaRabbanim—is sounding the alarm about what the group notes is the increasing prevalence of medically assisted death making “inroads” into the local #Jewish community. Citing the figure of 5,000 patients in #Ontario in 2023 who the council describes as being “#euthanized by medical practitioners”, the leading rabbis said they need to take steps to “curb this disturbing trend”: going forward, they will not officiate at the #funerals of MAID patients and will refuse to permit MAID patients to be buried in plots in their #synagogues’ #cemetery sections."

https://thecjn.ca/news/why-torontos-orthodox-rabbis-wont-officiate-maid-funerals-or-provide-burial-plots/

I'm putting this out for any Jews who feel like they don't want to criticize another denomination.

This is bullshit. There is no religious reason to bar suicides from our cemeteries. Not facilitating funerals is your choice, of course, but it's cruel to the living. What's next? Shrimp and tattoos? Meh.

"A landmark letter on #MAID, approved recently by #Toronto’s main #Orthodox #rabbinical council—also called the #VaadHaRabbanim—is sounding the alarm about what the group notes is the increasing prevalence of medically assisted death making “inroads” into the local #Jewish community. Citing the figure of 5,000 patients in #Ontario in 2023 who the council describes as being “#euthanized by medical practitioners”, the leading rabbis said they need to take steps to “curb this disturbing trend”: going forward, they will not officiate at the #funerals of MAID patients and will refuse to permit MAID patients to be buried in plots in their #synagogues’ #cemetery sections."

https://thecjn.ca/news/why-torontos-orthodox-rabbis-wont-officiate-maid-funerals-or-provide-burial-plots/

I'm putting this out for any Jews who feel like they don't want to criticize another denomination.

This is bullshit. There is no religious reason to bar suicides from our cemeteries. Not facilitating funerals is your choice, of course, but it's cruel to the living. What's next? Shrimp and tattoos? Meh.

"A landmark letter on #MAID, approved recently by #Toronto’s main #Orthodox #rabbinical council—also called the #VaadHaRabbanim—is sounding the alarm about what the group notes is the increasing prevalence of medically assisted death making “inroads” into the local #Jewish community. Citing the figure of 5,000 patients in #Ontario in 2023 who the council describes as being “#euthanized by medical practitioners”, the leading rabbis said they need to take steps to “curb this disturbing trend”: going forward, they will not officiate at the #funerals of MAID patients and will refuse to permit MAID patients to be buried in plots in their #synagogues’ #cemetery sections."

https://thecjn.ca/news/why-torontos-orthodox-rabbis-wont-officiate-maid-funerals-or-provide-burial-plots/

I'm putting this out for any Jews who feel like they don't want to criticize another denomination.

This is bullshit. There is no religious reason to bar suicides from our cemeteries. Not facilitating funerals is your choice, of course, but it's cruel to the living. What's next? Shrimp and tattoos? Meh.

"A landmark letter on #MAID, approved recently by #Toronto’s main #Orthodox #rabbinical council—also called the #VaadHaRabbanim—is sounding the alarm about what the group notes is the increasing prevalence of medically assisted death making “inroads” into the local #Jewish community. Citing the figure of 5,000 patients in #Ontario in 2023 who the council describes as being “#euthanized by medical practitioners”, the leading rabbis said they need to take steps to “curb this disturbing trend”: going forward, they will not officiate at the #funerals of MAID patients and will refuse to permit MAID patients to be buried in plots in their #synagogues’ #cemetery sections."

https://thecjn.ca/news/why-torontos-orthodox-rabbis-wont-officiate-maid-funerals-or-provide-burial-plots/

Kerameikos Cemetery
Al Purdy

So old that only traces of death remain
for death is broken with the broken stones
as if convivial party-goers came
and talked so long to friends they stayed
to hear the night birds call their children home

All over Athens rooster voices wake
the past converses with itself and time
is like a plough that turns up yesterday
I move and all around —: the marketplace
where something tugs my sleeves as I go by

#kerameikos #athens #cemetery #pottery #AlPurdy #poetry

Kerameikos Cemetery
Al Purdy

So old that only traces of death remain
for death is broken with the broken stones
as if convivial party-goers came
and talked so long to friends they stayed
to hear the night birds call their children home

All over Athens rooster voices wake
the past converses with itself and time
is like a plough that turns up yesterday
I move and all around —: the marketplace
where something tugs my sleeves as I go by

#kerameikos #athens #cemetery #pottery #AlPurdy #poetry

Kerameikos Cemetery
Al Purdy

So old that only traces of death remain
for death is broken with the broken stones
as if convivial party-goers came
and talked so long to friends they stayed
to hear the night birds call their children home

All over Athens rooster voices wake
the past converses with itself and time
is like a plough that turns up yesterday
I move and all around —: the marketplace
where something tugs my sleeves as I go by

#kerameikos #athens #cemetery #pottery #AlPurdy #poetry

‘They would’ve been royalty’: George Washington’s ties to rural Missouri town https://www.allforgardening.com/1937417/they-wouldve-been-royalty-george-washingtons-ties-to-rural-missouri-town/ #cemetery #GardenCity #GardeningMissouri #GeorgeWashington #headstones #KansasCity #KansasCityNews #Missouri #monarch #relatives #TonyAndMinnieWashington

‘They would’ve been royalty’: George Washington’s ties to rural Missouri town https://www.allforgardening.com/1937417/they-wouldve-been-royalty-george-washingtons-ties-to-rural-missouri-town/ #cemetery #GardenCity #GardeningMissouri #GeorgeWashington #headstones #KansasCity #KansasCityNews #Missouri #monarch #relatives #TonyAndMinnieWashington

#friedhof #cemetery #graveyard #rendsburg #schleswigholstein

https://holundra.de/altstaedter-friedhof-rendsburg/

For #ThursDeath:

#Growth: Under the Under

https://growthmusic.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-under

https://tidal.com/album/481650669

#ProgessiveDeathMetal

FFO #Cemetery #Replicant #Ulcerate

In the 19th century, cemeteries functioned also as parks, and the most celebrated designer of parks was Frederick Law Olmsted. #MountHopeCemetery in Rochester NY is an #Olmsted classic. From a photo walk in 2014.

#BlueskyArtShow #stone #photography #cemetery #CelticCross

Misty #cemetery on the #Dutch island #Ameland for #SilentSunday.

Low, winter sun creating a halo around an old, carved Celtic cross, in the bone orchard of the now-ruined Lennoxtown High Kirk.

#Photography #photographie #Scotland #Ecosse #CelticCross #graveyard #cemetery #Lennoxtown

After my film, I cut through the old boneyard of Saint Cuthbert's to have a look & take pics at the festive fair & market in the nearby Princes Street Gardens.

I lasted twenty minutes before it annoyed the smeg out of me. Too loud, far too busy. I think I preferred the old bone orchard! Tombs with a Castle view!

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #photography #photographie #graveyard #cemetery #BlackAndWhitePhotography #EdinburghCastle

Veverky na hřbitově
Squirrel in the cemetery
Praha Olšany

#fotografie #photo #photography #photographie #fotos #praha #prague #prag #czechia #czech_republic #czechrepublic #česko #cesko #hřbitov #cemetery #friedhof #cimetière #cemeteryphoto #cemeteryphotography #friedhoffotografie #cimetièrephoto #cimetièrephotographie #podzim #autumn #herbs #automne #příroda #nature #naturephotography #zvířata #zvíře #animal #animalphoto #tiere #tierefotografie #veverka #squirrel #écureuil #eichhörnchen

Susan Turns' wonderful Skeleton Graveyard on North Street in Mifflintown. #halloween #halloweendecor #halloweendecorations #holiday #holidaydecor #holidaydecorations #decorations #fall #autumn #miffllintown #juniatacounty #graveyard #cemetery

From the vault: "Olvidado"
circa 1997

#forgotten #forgottenplaces #perdido #olvidado #olvidadoydecadente #graveyard #graveyardphotography #cemetery #elbuceo #barriobuceo #montevideo #uruguay #cementerioinglés #lost #blackandwhite #vintage #retro #camera #zenith #photography

This is a tripwire-triggered weapon used to defend corpses from body snatchers (grave robbers) in the late 19th century. It went by many names such as “cemetery gun,” “grave gun,” and “coffin torpedo.”

More:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffin-torpedos

#History #TIL #Cemetery #BodySnatchers #GraveRobbers

@FotoVorschlag
#FotoVorschlag

‚Friedhöfe‘

Noch eine weitere Einreichung von britischen Kriegsgräbern in Sage, Niedersachsen. W.E. Price wurde nur 23 Jahre alt.

#Sage #WarCemetery #WarCemeterySage #ZweiterWeltkrieg #WW2 #Niedersachsen #LowerSaxony #WarCemeteries #NoWar #NieWieder #NieWiederIstJetzt #cemetery #Friedhof #Friedhöfe

@FotoVorschlag
#FotoVorschlag

‚Friedhöfe‘

Noch eine weitere Einreichung von britischen Kriegsgräbern in Sage, Niedersachsen. W.E. Price wurde nur 23 Jahre alt.

#Sage #WarCemetery #WarCemeterySage #ZweiterWeltkrieg #WW2 #Niedersachsen #LowerSaxony #WarCemeteries #NoWar #NieWieder #NieWiederIstJetzt #cemetery #Friedhof #Friedhöfe

Cmentarz Osobowicki we Wrocławiu 2024/11/01

#cmentarz #WszystkichŚwiętych #fotografie #cemetery #zachodslonca #sunset #photography

The first time I ever got to go trick or treating was when I was 21 years old. My roommate Viki went as a vampire and I went as her victim in a long white nightgown and a bloody neck. The only place we went to, the woman said, "Aren't you too old for this?" It crushed all my joy. I didn't get to go as a kid because I grew up in a Jehovah's Witness family.

In downtown Fredericton there's an old cemetery that everyone uses as a shortcut. That Halloween night, the gates were open, so Viki and I walked in. We passed a watchman who said hi. But when we got to the other side, the gate was locked.

We turned around to exit the way we came in, only to find that gate was locked, too. The watchman had shut us in!

We wandered around looking for a way out, and then city workers saw us and started yelling at us for breaking into the cemetery. We explained what had happened and asked for them to let us out. They didn't have keys. So they pulled their truck up to the cast iron fence and helped pull us over the fence.

Who else gets locked into an old cemetery on their first Hallowe'en? My nightgown got ripped, but it was totally worth it. It brought back all the joy that had been sucked away by the mean woman telling me I was too old for trick or treating.

FWIW, the last time I went trick or treating was when I was in my forties. If mummering were a thing here, I'd do that, too.
#halloween #TrickorTreat #ageism #mummers #cemetery #ExJW

Scenes from Oroville, CA
The Jewish Cemetery in Oroville. I stopped to take a few photos in the not ideal harsh afternoon sunlight. With my limited time (work trip), I tried to find as many interesting things (to me) as I could in Oroville. And surprisingly, there were many. #photography #cemetery #Jewish #Oroville #California #SacramentoValley #ButteCounty #GoldCountry #history #GoldRush

"Ireland"
#ireland #irish #irishtraditions #celtic #celticcross #clover #trinity #cross #catholic #catholicism #church #graveyard #headstone #graveyardphotography #nikon #nikond3500 #cemetery #abbey #corcomroe #corcomroeabbey #history #historical #historicalplace #closeup #silent #peace #peaceful #peacewithin

A sunny and cold day in a cemetery.

#Cemetery #Photo #London #Putney #PutneyCemetery

The mining of the “Saucy” and the “Firefly”: the thread about the WW2 loss of forty-two lives in the Forth

I was looking for something in Seafield Cemetery last week and couldn’t help but stop by the war graves. Some are for merchant seamen and many of them were from HMS Saucy, lost with all hands on this day (September 4th) in 1940. As yesterday was Merchant Navy Day, this is a doubly appropriate time to relate their story.

The Saucy was built for the Royal Navy in Hull in 1918 as a 600-ton, 155ft-long Frisky-class rescue tug. She was sold out of service in 1924 but kept her name and was requisitioned in 1939, returning to the UK from Shanghai. She was crewed by merchant seamen, serving under officers of the Royal Navy Reserve (RNR men were professional merchant naval officers who had joined the reserves to be called up in times of war).

Saucy was based on the Forth at Rosyth, her duties to assist in any damaged vessels entering the estuary and was at sea on September 3rd (Merchant Navy Day and exactly 1 year into the war) when she brought in a damaged Dutch merchant ship that had been bombed by German aircraft. With this charge safely brought in, she headed back out on patrol in the early morning of the 4th. Contact was soon lost with her when she was in a position about 1.5 miles west of the island of Inchkeith; the unfortunate tug had hit a mine and gone down almost instantly, taking all 281 on board with her. It is not clear whose mine she had struck, it may have been dropped by a German aircraft, but just as likely it may have been a “friendly” mine that had broken free from its moorings and had floated further into the Firth.

Of the crew the 3 officers were all RNR men and the 25 ratings were all merchant seamen. Eighteen came from the Devonshire fishing town of Brixham, 7 from the same extended family. Eight bodies were recovered, 5 of them of Brixham men and all were buried at Seafield – although one was never formally identified.

On this day in 2004, a memorial plaque was dedicated in Brixham Harbour to the men who were lost – it has 26 individual names, however different sources list 27 names and some say there were 28 on the ship’s roll. See footnote.

A new HMS Saucy was named in her honour in 1942, an Assurance-class rescue tug. The wreck of her predecessor was marked with a buoy in 1940, but it was largely lost by 1945. Sonar surveys by the Navy in 1967 and 1871 failed to locate it, but it was found again by the minehunter HMS Sandown in 1992, and her divers explored the wreck in 1993 and found it to be remarkably intact in 15m of water, position 56° 2′ 10″N, 3° 10′ 33″W.

The men whose bodies were never found are further commemorated on the Liverpool Naval Memorial, which commemorates almost 1,400 merchant sailors who died serving with the Royal Navy during WW2 and have no known resting place.

1. Some sources say 26 or 27 were on the ship’s roll. Most also 7 seven men were buried at Seafield, however there is the grave of an 8th and unidentified victim also alongside. ↩︎

Alongside the men from the Saucy at Seafield lie three others who lost their lives to sea mines that year; Lt. D. B. Johnstone RNVR, Chief Petty Officer C. E. Baldwin RN D.S.M. and Sub Lt. C. Dobson RNVR. All three died on HMS Firefly in February 1940. Baldwin had earned the Distinguished Service Medal early in the war for being the first to defuse a German magnetic mine, allowing it to be captured, inspected and countermeasures devised.

Firefly was a requisitioned civilian trawler, hired from her owners as a minesweeper. Trawlers were perfect for this sort of work, which required a seaworthy vessel that could handle the towing of “sweeps” that cut mines free from their moorings before the crew destroyed them (usually by shooting it with a rifle until it exploded).

On February 3rd 1940, Firefly was in the Forth, her crew attempting to defuse a British mine that had gotten loose and was posing a hazard to shipping. These sort of mines look exactly like they do in cartoons; a buoyant, black sphere with spiky “horns” in which the detonators are mounted.

Firefly was stopped in the water, her crew watching from the railings while a detachment in the row boat carefully manoeuvred alongside the mine to defuse it; dangerous but routine work. Without warning they were hit by the wake of a passing destroyer, which pushed the mine onto the boat. The horn contacted one of the boat’s oars, and 200-250lb of explosives was detonated. Everyone on the boat was killed instantly, as were all except one watching on deck (who would die the next day from his wounds). Only the 3 men in the wheelhouse and 1 in the galley survived from a crew of 18. Sadly one of the four survivors, Lt. Andrew Macgavin Maclean RNVR, would die in the Royal Infirmary two weeks later as a result of infection, he was laid to rest in Strathblane Parish Churchyard (I am indebted to Pat Davy of Strathblane Heritage Society for this information).

Remarkably, the vessel herself was largely intact – apart from damage to her superstructure – and she was towed into Leith by the minesweeping trawler HMS Wardour and repaired. She returned to service, recommissioning in June 1940, and serving out the rest of the war. Returned to her owners and renamed St. Just, she fished out of Harwich until 1961. Wardour herself was sunk by a mine she was clearing in October 1940 but her crew survived. In a curious coincidence, a previous HMS Firefly was one of the first ships to strike a naval mine (which at the time were referred to as “Infernal Machines”) when she and HMS Merlin ran into a Russian minefield off Sveaborg in the Baltic Campaign of 1855, although both survived. In another odd twist of fate, the Firth of Forth was the location of both the first loss of a ship to a torpedo in WW1 (the cruiser HMS Pathfinder), and the last such in WW2 (the Canadian steamer Avondale Park and the Norwegian collier “Sneland I).

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Come on down! 🪦

By the way, graves cost a lot more than you think. If you want to be buried someday, it’s worth looking into it now (while you can shop around and make payments) rather than waiting until it’s an urgent need.

Different cemeteries offer differ things. Some allow caskets to be stacked within a grave like eternal bunk beds. If you think you *might* want to do that to save space and money while keeping family together, it’s much easier to arrange when the FIRST occupant is buried. They dig the grave deeper to leave space for the second person above. If that isn’t done, then it’s a slightly more difficult and expensive process later (when Body 2 dies, Body 1 must be dug up, then the grave is dug deeper, then they replant Body 1 before the funeral for Body 2).

There are also options to consider, like mausoleum crypts, columbariums for urns, or urns buried above caskets in the ground.

When you buy your cemetery property, you don’t actually *own* the land. What you own is the right to bury in that space. Be sure to read the cemeteries rules and restrictions before purchasing. Then you won’t be surprised about what headstones they allow or what decorations are permitted.

Another thing! When you buy your cemetery property, there will be extra costs. Buying the grave doesn’t mean your funeral is taken care of. There are fees to open and close the grave and some cemeteries require the use of a vault (outer burial container). You need to pay for that AND a setting fee because they’re super heavy. Headstones, markers, vases etc are extra.

You’ll usually have to pay a fee called Endowment Care or Perpetual Care. That money is collected into a fund and the interest is used for cemetery maintenance after they’ve stopped making money.

It adds up! Do your homework NOW!

#HisAndHearsePress #Cemetery #Graveyard #Comic #JimShoenbill #SaleSaleSale #WackyWavingInflatableArmFlailingTubeMan #ComeOnDown #FridayFunny #GrimReaper #PreneedFuneralPlanning

Important to remember and reflect.....

#cemetery #cemeterychat

Very productive meeting at Orkney Museum this morning, but couldn't stop myself popping into St Magnus Cathedral churchyard afterwards 😁

#orkney #kirkwall #stmagnus #cathedral #churchyard #cemeterychat #cemetery

Sort of #selfPortrait in #QuincyGranite

The spectral form, like Jesus looming out of a piece of toast, is me, taking a #photo of a circa 1.5 meter polished granite sphere in the #MountWollastonCemetery in #Quincy. The largest visible #crystals (#feldspar and #amphibole) are about 1 centimeter across.

#Fujifilm #XH1 23mm f/1.4 @ f/2 and 1/1100 s
#igneous #stone #cemetery #Massachusetts #NewEngland #monument #sphere #reflectionselfie #reflection #geology #geoscience #quarry

Having an overwhelming fear of being buried alive, upon his death successful Indiana businessman, Martin Sheets, had a direct outside telephone line installed in his tomb - just in case. Would you like to know more? Then why not join me for an online talk, via Arnos Vale Cemetery, on Wednesday 8th March at 6.30pm (GMT) See link below:

https://arnosvale.org.uk/im-not-dead-the-perils-of-premature-burial-online-talk/

#cemetery #cemeterychat #burial #burialgrounds #prematureburial #death #tomb #archaeology

What does an ancient Egyptian dynasty, 3rd century Confucian scholars, a gang of mafia hoods and a grave in a Vermont cemetery, New Haven have in common? No? Well why not pop along this coming Wednesday 8th March, 6.30pm-7.30pm and all shall be revealed (online via Arnos Vale Cemetery - see link below)

https://arnosvale.org.uk/im-not-dead-the-perils-of-premature-burial-online-talk/

#cemetery #cemeterychat #burial #burials #graveyard #graves #grave #prematureburial #prematureburials #ancientegypt #mafia #

"The #oceanic pole of #inaccessibility, also known as #PointNemo [...] is the place in the #Pacific ocean that is #farthest from land. [...] The area is so remote that—as with any location more than 400 kilometres (250 mi) from an inhabited area—sometimes the closest human beings are astronauts aboard the #InternationalSpaceStation when it passes overhead. [...] The general area plays a major role in the 1928 short story "The Call of #Cthulhu" by H. P. #Lovecraft, as holding the location of the fictional city of R'lyeh, although this story was written 66 years before the identification of Point Nemo. The area is nowadays known as a "#spacecraft #cemetery" because hundreds of decommissioned #satellites, #space stations, and other spacecraft have been made to fall there upon re-entering the atmosphere, to lessen the risk of hitting inhabited locations or maritime traffic. The #ISS is planned to crash into Point Nemo in 2031.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility#Oceanic_pole_of_inaccessibility

The coming end of the year is often a time for reflection. When I question whether I can continue my studies, due to poor health, I am reminded of this glorious grave marker from Crailing Old Parish Churchyard, the King of Terrors, and my enthusiasm is renewed ☺️

#MementoMoriMonday #cemeterychat #cemetery #grave #graveyard #skeleton #death #burialground

**NEW BLOG POST** A chance discovery concerning not one but two Death Penny's found in situ in Tomnahurich Cemetery, Inverness. A Death Penny is a plaque commemorating those who had fallen in WWI. Has anyone come across similar in their cemetery wanderings?

(Please see link below)

http://mortephotography.co.uk/blog.asp

#cemeterychat #cemetery #graveyard #graves #gravemarker #archaeology #WorldWarOne #WW1 #death #deathhistory #history