

I lost my best friend of 18 years on the 19th of November… she passed away in my bedroom at home from old age early in the morning. So many mixed emotions about it still 😦 I love you Mini ♥


I lost my best friend of 18 years on the 19th of November… she passed away in my bedroom at home from old age early in the morning. So many mixed emotions about it still 😦 I love you Mini ♥
Hart Island, also known as the
Island of the Dead, is a massive burial ground for people too poor to
afford a proper funeral or bodies who were never claimed by family
members.
Located in New York, it has worked as a cemetery since 1869, after
being a Civil War prison camp, a tuberculosis hospital and an asylum for
the insane. It holds the remains of at least 1 million people. Inmates
work as gravediggers and groundkeepers in the otherwise abandoned
island.
Until last weekend, families weren’t allowed to visit the actual spot
where their loved ones were buried, they could only look at the scenery
from a gazebo. The DOC fortunately changed that, offering closure to
many.

WOŁÓW (Lower Silesia, Poland): the old cemetery in the woods – set up in 1919, now closed.

Anneliese Kohlmann, Charlotte Pliquet, Ilse Förster and Elisabeth Volkenrath bury the dead in Mass Grave 2 at Auschwitz Birkenau, 1945.


In a bizarre dispute, a skyscraper has been built around a tombstone in the city of Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province in China. Building developers bought a cemetery with an eye to building a series of skyscrapers on the land. Prior to construction, locals were paid to relocate the graves, yet one family refused the proposed terms, forcing developers to build around the landmass.