I receive so many cool articles and memes from friends on FB and through email. The other day, Margot Kinberg sent me the picture to the left. After painstakingly researching the alleged facts, I discovered the original source. Even though we may or may not use muscles to dig a grave deep enough to cover our sinful deeds, this picture led me to several fascinating articles about grave digging. A huge thank you goes out to Margot for this one! Grave-digging is an art, believe it or not.
I know. This shocked me, too. First, you need to scope out the perfect spot. Or maybe you do. Is it clay? Is it grass? Is it ledge? A coffin has six sides, a top, and a bottom. A casket has four. But I wanted to make you aware of the difference. The proper depth of a grave in a cemetery is only 4 — 5 feet. Years ago, coffins were made of cheap wood. Basically, gravediggers buried wooden bubbles. After the body decomposed , they collapsed.
Burying a coffin 6 feet under ensured it would create a sink hole. But what it does is seals the concrete, making it difficult to break through. Which causes problems if an exhumation is ever needed. Technically, you could bury a person in less than 2 feet of soil in many areas, if you discount the amount of the space displaced by the coffin. As with most things, there are exceptions. For example, children are buried shallower than adults. The location will often affect the depth. In areas prone to flooding or high water tables, bodies are typically buried shallower to avoid becoming waterlogged and even rocketing from the earth.
Can you imagine? This is a real concern in New Orleans , where the water table is so high that they have to bury their dead above ground. A double, I understand. Husband and wife often want to remain together for eternity. But why would you need a triple? Hmm …. But digging the grave is done in the same way. The first step is to remove the sod grass, dirt, and grass-roots.
Sod is strong. Start by using a shovel with a flat blade. Cut straight down, outlining your grave, then slice a line down the middle. Working from out to in, cut across to that middle line every 11 inches. Using that same flat-blade shovel, pry up the sod and shave off the bottom to make them flat. The thinner they are, the lighter they are. But make sure to keep about inches of dirt. Place the pieces in a semi-circle on a tarp. We want the grass to match the surrounding area.
Using a spade — hopefully not one newly purchased at Home Depot be mindful of surveillance cameras! Toss the top 2 feet of soil into a wheel barrel so you can dispose of it elsewhere. This space should compensate for the body. You want to work from one end to the other. Once you get a few feet down, it becomes more labor-intensive. Think about it. Your boots are packing down that soil, making it even harder to dig. Perhaps this is where the muscles come into play.
If the soil is rocky and loose, or moist, this is a real concern. In a pinch, you could probably use the back of your spade. But why risk it?
Be prepared. Digging a grave in the winter is much harder than digging in soft summer soil. Grave digging tool manufacturers are developing new types of ground heating blankets all the time.
She was so close to death that she was returned to her grave, where a guard stood by before deserting his post. The next morning, she was found dead, but only after struggling to free herself once more. When Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov of Kazan in Russia collapsed at home following a heart attack in , she was soon declared dead. A few days later, as she was lying in her casket at her own funeral, she woke up.
She saw the mourners around her, crying and praying for her, quickly twigged to what was happening, began yelling, and was rushed back to the hospital. She lived for an additional 12 minutes in intensive care prior to dying once more, this time for good.
The cause of death? Heart failure. Walter Williams of Mississippi was pronounced dead on February 26, As CNN reported, the correct paperwork was completed, his body was put into a body bag, and he was taken to a funeral home.
When his body was taken to the embalming room, his legs began to move. Then, the coroner noticed him lightly breathing. Williams was alive. Leff, professor emeritus at University of Chicago in the pulmonary and critical care department.
That's because the coffin is probably well-sealed, not to mention buried under 6 feet of soil. Even if you were able to get out of the coffin without exhausting your air supply first, you'd find yourself in a situation similar to being buried in a mega-landslide or avalanche.
The dirt would be so dense and heavy that your chest wouldn't be able to expand. Snow is heavy, but earth is even heavier. And if you were able to move, the dirt would fall into your mouth or nostrils and could end up clogging your airways. But there is one upside. As the carbon dioxide builds up it would make you sleepy and you'd eventually fall into a coma before your heart stopped and the rest of your body followed.
For you. In , a year-old German shoemaker was laid to rest, but there were questions about his death from the start. Still, the funeral went on as planned.
But as the gravedigger was dispersing the last shovelsful of dirt onto the grave, he heard a knocking from below. Reversing his process and now removing the earth as quickly as possible, the gravedigger found the shoemaker moving inside his coffin. Over the course of three days, resuscitation attempts were made, but all efforts were fruitless.
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