How has the 'graveyard' where human beings are buried after death have changed?

by stevekeiretsu

Everyone will eventually die and most of them will be buried in the cemetery. A movie that describes the history of the cemetery that has been closely involved with human life for a long time has been released on YouTube, although it tends to be a ghastly and horrible negative image.

The fascinating history of cemeteries - Keith Eggener


Speaking of cemeteries abroad, old dead trees standing with pots ......

I have a terrible and creepy impression.

However, just a little while ago ...

In the cemetery there were times when flowers bloomed and people were gathering places. How did the cemetery where the dead are buried come and how did it look like today?

From the long history of mankind, it is recently that we began to burial the bodies, until then people have separated from the dead in other various ways. For example, it is left in a cave, a tree, a mountain ... ...

He sometimes submerged to the bottom of the lake, floated on the sea, and sometimes did rituals for food.

These methods, which may seem strange from the perspective of modern people, were all manners of worshiping the dead.

It is thought that the oldest burial was done about 120 thousand years ago ... ...

In order to exclude offenders from ordinary ceremonies, it is believed that they chose to bury them in soil.

However by filling it in the soil, the body is protected from animals that eat the corpse ... ...

The advantage that people do not see the process of corrupting the corpse became clear.

Then people changed their mindset ... ...

It seems that cemetery for honoring the dead was made and it became common to be buried in it.

In the grave there were cases where practical tools and tools for ceremonies were buried together as burial goods.

These tools were thought to be necessary for the dead in the world after death.

The cemetery came in North Africa and West Asia for the first time around 10,000 to 15,000 years ago.

As people have come to settle in the same place, it is said that places have been created to commemorate the dead permanently.

The mound grave that the nomads made from Central Asia to Europe is called Kurgan ......

The Etruscans , the indigenous peoples of the Italian Peninsula, made a vast cemetery called Necropolis arranged in an orderly fashion.

In addition, the Romans buried bodies such as dead bodies and cremated ashes in underground tombs called catacombs .

The word "Cemetery" seems to be used by ancient Greeks for the first time, they said they built a joint cemetery at the edge of the city.

In medieval Europe, the church provided the land to bury the dead ... ...

Market and other events were held in the cemetery, too.

Farmers grazed cows in the cemetery and sometimes caused them to eat the weeds that grew in the cemetery.

As the city evolved through the Industrial Revolution, a vast community cemetery in the suburbs replaced a small graveyard in the city.

A vast cemetery such as the Pale Lachaise Cemetery in eastern Paris boasting 110 acres (approximately 440,000 square meters) of land and the Mount Auburn Cemetery with 72 acres (approximately 290,000 square meters) in the west of Boston are located in the suburbs It was built ......

In the cemetery built in the suburbs there are abundant nature and gorgeously sculptured tombs and it gained popularity as a very attractive place.

People of various classes come to the cemetery ... ...

Not only for funerals but also for anniversaries and holidays, sometimes we used cemetery as a place to rest for the afternoon.

However, as lots of parks and botanical gardens were made in the late 19th century, few people gathered in the cemetery.

Until today, the cemetery is lonely and recognized as a spooky place.

In recent years, it is said that human beings are forced to think whether to continue the conventional burial method.

In the big cities such as London, New York, Hong Kong, the place to be buried is full ... ...

Even if there is room in the burial place, the cemetery continues to use the land forever and can not be diverted to other uses.

Also, traditional burial requires resources such as metal and stone, sometimes harmful substances spread to the surrounding land.

People are searching for new burial options ... ...

Even in the Christian region where resistance to burning the bodies is strong, it seems that the custom of cremation is spreading.

Burn the bodies by the ash, launch the ashes into space space burial and and trees of fertilizer trees funeral allows the selection of such.

In some cases, it may be used in such a way as to make the ash into a gemstone, a fireworks display, or a tattoo ink.

New burial options may become mainstream in the future.