Roots of the Afterlife

Exploring an old cemetery in Pittsburgh.
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[@tsivard1]

Those are Woodmen grave stones/markers. In 1890 Joseph Cullen Root founded Woodmen of the World, a fraternal benefit organization, the purpose of which was to make life insurance affordable to everyone. From 1890 until 1900 the policy included a tombstone. For adults the stones were made to look like tree stumps and came in a variety of styles and heights.

[@ralphpatrick3071]

Touch a tree and literally connect with your passed love one. I like the trees!

[@richarddube3290]

I found it amusing that you were saying that cemetery was full of trees and dead stumps while looking at a headstone of somebody with the last name of Stump.

[@hordakalpha]

Such a serene looking place. Maybe we could think of all of the trees growing out of those graves as new life coming from old life. The natural order and in a way life never ending.

[@Bill-cv1xu]

I'd feel honored after 50 years of death to have a living tree utilizing my old bones

[@Radio_Jingles_55]

I like the idea of being buried in the ground and becoming part of the tree.

[@screwthecabal6453]

You've got it all wrong. It's not unfortunate to have the trees growing from her coffin. YOU DON'T KNOW! She may have wanted beautiful trees growing in her place to make a statement. A very deep statement. It's more beautiful than her grave being neglected. Afterall, trees have feelings just as every thing around us. Everything vibrates with energy. As soon as you realize that the better you would understand.

[@DuckwoodDave]

Tillie's body made some good fertilizer for those trees! Hopefully she was a person who loved trees!

[@lisablake5328]

It looks like a green burial if I didnt know better. I am going green when my time comes.Thank you Chris

[@jonimorton333]

It’s beautiful to see the trees growing and striving from graves. I don’t see it as unfortunate at all. Love the video thanks for sharing

[@jburnett8152]

Thank you Chris.

[@jacquie5292]

If the tree headstones didn't say" Woodsmen of the World" on them, then the headstones were made and ordered through Sears or Montgomery Ward.

[@debbietaylor8091]

That’s there afterlife. They grew to trees so the birds would have a place to rest😊

[@sandysue202]

Those Woodmen of the World gravestones are found in most every American cemetery. I just today, watching another channel, learned the story behind them. I have seen so many of them over the years in so many different cemeteries. They are very unique. That grave with the big trees growing up is kinda sad. No family must have been around to pull them out when those trees started growing there. Or, they thought it was just meant to be. Maybe the woman buried there loved trees, and it seemed appropriate? It's very interesting.

[@leninmi7579]

Bragging rights into the afterlife dude! ✊

[@MichelleJune67]

This is sad yet beautiful..at 1st you think how disturbing but then you think how wonderful it is that death becomes life again..

[@TammyMullins-jv8wm]

Ashie to ashes dust to dust ❤

[@sallykohorst8803]

Yes very interesting graves with trees growing inside them and the roots going all over the place. Thanks for sharing.

[@halfcrazyoldchristianredne895]

Grave yards are so fascinating. Thank you Chris

[@StephenAndrew777]

Pretty awesome