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07-13-2017, 10:44 PM
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Re: Exhumed Bodies/embalmer's Work Years Later
Thank you for posting! What a curious find:) I always considered being cremated but leaving behind a mystery to be exhumed many years later is exciting
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07-14-2017, 01:53 PM
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Re: Exhumed Bodies/embalmer's Work Years Later
Let's make sure the (awesome) prank works and stipulate that the remains be exhumed in the last will by the great grandkids, who until then, only heard about their prankster grandpa  |
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07-19-2017, 11:06 PM
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Man I hate burials. I once saw 1 of my deceased family members in an open casket when I was younger and that shit cut me deep... Light me on fire when i'm done. |
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07-21-2017, 08:36 AM
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Re: Exhumed Bodies/embalmer's Work Years Later
Thanks guys! This was my third set of pictures in this genre. Pictures of this sort are not particularly easy to come by so I save and note what I come across. Most of these come from professional trade publications, forensic works and such. This set was from a long-defunct family cemetery in the Appalacian region. A road project necessitated the removal of about 50 graves, of which only perhaps half were actually marked in any way. Due to the age of many of the graves, archeologists were on hand to assist with removal, care and in a documnetation of remains interred from before about 1950. The oldest burials dated to roughly 1860, though few tangible remains were found in the older graves where no vault had been used. In some cases only teeth or dentures were all that was left! (The soil in this area is quite acidic, so it was not surprising to find such poor preservation in the older graves that had been buried in simple wood coffins). Nearly all of the post-WWII graves were in concrete vaults or liners and thus were not opened for inspection. I think the oldest grave that had a vault of any sort was from the 1910s; even steel caskets that were directly buried, without vault, were in very poor condition and little in way of human remains were recovered. In a few cases things like wigs, hair pieces, dentures and a few teeth were present, but all of the bone had dissolved away. I always try and not reveal any identifying information of the deceased when possible, aside from of course a few that are from high profile cases where the pictures have been widely circulated. |
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07-23-2017, 12:24 AM
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Re: Exhumed Bodies/embalmer's Work Years Later
People are so obsessed with preserving the body after death, and yet such preservation never lasts more than a few years. There's really no point to it.
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07-23-2017, 12:04 PM
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Re: Exhumed Bodies/embalmer's Work Years Later
If you get cremated the energy released by your body floats off in to space, forever lost. Yet if you get buried your energy will rejoin the earth, just get buried in a straw casket or cardboard coffin so you decompose quickly.
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