Oven Crypts of New Orleans
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- Oven tombs: quaint, affordable, reusable, and crawfish safe. Do you need more convincing, America?
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Mortician: Caitlin Doughty
Producer & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1)
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This video was largely informed by "The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History" by Peter B. Dedek. Much of the information presented was made possible by Mr. Dedek's excellent research. Thank you for your work!
*SELECTED ADDITIONAL READING**
Historical New Orleans
www.storyvilledistrictnola.com...
The Picayune's Guide to New Orleans - Cemeteries
www.storyvilledistrictnola.com...
"Sitting on a Tombstone": An 1873 Chat with a Gravedigger in Lafayette No. 1
www.oakandlaurel.com/blog/sitt...
J.N.B. de Pouilly: Architect of New Orleans Cemeteries
www.oakandlaurel.com/blog/jnb-...
New Orleans Nostalgia
www.neworleansbar.org/uploads/...
Oak & Laurel Cemetery Preservation
www.oakandlaurel.com/resources...
www.oakandlaurel.com/blog
"Mom says it's my turn in the decomposing cave-tube"
If this isn’t my dark humored offspring, I don’t know what is.
😂🤣😂
Ugh five more minutes go away 🙄
my mom would not think it funny. we have a family crypt in Pere LaChaise in Paris....the bones are interred after a time like the ovens. Well, she would think it funny if my oldest brother told a joke about it. He got away once with a joke about a society forming for Ex mistresses of politicians.
It's actually quite the honor to have a family crypt there. Since I plan to be cremated and do not want my family to go to the time and expense to get me to France (and you are not allowed to spread ashes there) I told them to stand on the edge of the ocean and throw my ashes in that direction. Baring that any body of water would do.
My mom is alive still at 87. I wish I did have the means to get her body to the family crypt there upon her demise.
noo mom said i could go first
“I made this, pls be nice” I love Caitlin she’s so adorable 😂
I totally agree and the mini oven crypt was awesome & hilarious in its cuteness!
I also ❤ Caitlin :) thanks for making her videos :)
I was HOWLING at the Tic-Tacs. 🤣🤣🤣
I'll never look at Tic-Tacs the same way again, lol!
I loved the mini oven kit - it was so cute!! The tictacs were a surprise XD
When I found out my grandma had wished to be cremated I was, at first, distraught. Like, what about a grave, grandma? A place for the family to sit and remember you? I think she knew in her heart that she had no desire to be a floating corpse. She also knew in her heart that funerals are for the living and she said, "Fuck y'all." God, I miss that woman.
In Singapore we have columbariums so I still get to visit all of my relatives who've passed. Easier than walking all over a giant cemetery. I just gotta go to different shelves and remember the numbers of the urns.
@@bearyb00s that's really nice! i'm sure that's an option somewhere in the US, i ended up with a small urn of some of her ashes though. i'm glad to hear you're able to visit all of your loved ones who've passed.
Living wakes fine but wakes and funerals waste of time. Being buried people choice being burned no thank you. Because your remains(ground up bone)are just put in a container. I can see what she was getting at but if she was put in a urn or what ever loved one's can still look at it or gather at a time of year when she died and remember. She probably just thought the whole coffin and the ritual that goes with it was ridicules and a waste of land and $$.
@@bearyb00s In the US, the ashes are returned to the family.
I like what you guys, east asian countries do way more. I remember finding out a childhood friend of mine had died in a car accident. I had moved away and no one bothered to tell me she had died.
All I could do is go to the family and cry. No where to go to leave flowers and remember her. Both cremation (which is inexpensive and more eco-friendly than burial) and a place to remember a loved one. Are the ashes kept there indefinitely or does the family need to continue to pay for the ashes to stay/upkeep?
I tell my family when I talk about the composting option I want, my remains will be spread all over a forest, near caves, rivers, the sea. The people who want to remember me can do that among the nature I revere and devoted my life too (as a future environmental scientist).
"When we die; our bodies become the grass." - Mufasa
"When we die; we get permanent real estate that we shouldn't need since we're dead, but we're materialistic, so yeah." - Humans
- Americans*
@@sofienijland5929 Ah yes, everyone knows Americans invented cemeteries 🤣
@@derpandabar She's referring to the fact that americans buy a grave for the rest of eternity, whereas in other countries they 'clean' the graves after a certain amount of time... Like Caitlin said in the video... modest eyeroll
My family was Italian only a few generations ago. From Italy. As American citizens, we are totally cool with permanent real estate 👍. It isn't bad or wrong. Most of it has nothing to do with being materialistic. I can't speak for everyone, so I am just going with most.
@Xander Hampshire I understand where people are coming from. Here is what I see. Empty land, unless it is federal or far away from water, will absolutely get used. It will get used for another bank, another gas station, Wal-Mart, or the millionth Starbucks. All of which evolve around things we want but don't want to go to another part of town for. It can be considered materilaistic for the living as well. I personally rather see a graveyard. Besides, it has been wonderful for finding family roots. We all have that famous person in our ancestry, it has been fun to visit their resting place. But I get your view. I just see gravesites as beautiful and peaceful. Unlike another building full of boring materilaistic stuff. My grandmother-in-law prefers buzzards eat her when she dies. To each their own :-)
Your miniature oven crypt demo was darling.
@@blanchy Miniature oven crypt Tic Tac holders? Because *yes*.
That was hilariously cute _and_ creepy, lol I love her ♥
6:42😁
Delightful
That was absolutely morbidly precious! ❤️
The tictacs as bones killed me, please bury my body in a similarly humorous fashion.
in a similarly HUMERUS fashion, you mean!
(sorry, bone pun)
I have osteogenesis imperfecta, which is a genetic bone disease, so I've been really cracking up over these :D
Just keepin' the ball rollin'.........
I thought they were marshmallows at first but realizing they were tic tacs made it so much better😂
When I broke my humurus drs thought I wasnt in pain because I was making silly jokes.
Tibia honest, the tic tacs were brilliant. :)
That little clay oven crypt demo was actually super informative and the tik tacs were genius 😂
LOL I loved the tic tacs!
@@staystrong8966 Lordy, I do love this site ! Caitlyn is so wonderfully unorthodox and interesting, to put it mildly. I'm going to raise a toast to our High Priestess of The Good Death ! 🥂🍻🍻
I expected a toy skeleton but tictacs! How does she mix the perfect balance of morbid and lighthearted humor? Brilliant.
I have a family tomb in one of the New Orleans cemeteries. My wife and I decided to be cremated though. My father-in-law said he could tell me something that would change my mind. I asked "like what?". He said "the fire doesn't burn your bones so they have to crush them". My reply was "pretty sure it won't hurt".
Keith Williams you can still have your ashes interned in the cemetery. The Catholic Church allows cremation now as long as it’s followed by a burial.
For me the whole idea of the fire is a big no no I want either aquamation or natural burial thank you so much, I want to feed the earth not harm it more and I’m scared of the fire idea no no no
@@sakurito55 gross tho
C H not gross at all.
@@sakurito55 ha, my mom is claustrophobic so, when i was five, we had the talk about her being cremated. then again when i was seven, 12, 14, 19, 25, and most recently at 30 i made her have the conversation with my dad and he tried to get her set up with his "cremation people". the thought of being in a coffin terrifies her. she doesn't even want an autopsy. she said, "if you can have whoever finds me just cart me off to the oven, that's great, but just shove me in the oven at home if you have to."
This is where the phrase, "I wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole comes from... the pole being the device used to push remains to the back of the tomb
Cwn 41 no way!! That’s so neat!
Cwn 41 no way!! That’s so neat!
In some places the phrase is " with a ten foot barge pole"
What does the symbol in your avatar mean? I feel like I see it on so many bumper stickers. I always thought it was representative of some dance studio.
@@Ali-mv3jc Where i'm from its just with a barge pole
I truly adore the artistic representation of how oven tombs functioned. I laughed out loud seeing what was used to represent bones! Very cute.
Tic tac tomb!
@@DenitaArnold you are dead but your breath smells wonderful
So in the end, we're all just tiktaks pushed to the back of the tomb
Your demonstration was a glorious one. And blessed are the tiny-clawed ones. For they are hungry.
Best reply of them all !
Lol
Pink Floyd reference?
🤣🤣🤣
I want to know if people could get Curu (Kuru) disease I’d they eat a crawfish they ate someone’s brains?
I'm gonna start chewing crawfish more gently so they chew me up as gently as I did to them.
Valeria Naranjo Cruz yes !
Do you take constructive criticism
Love this.
Lmao! : )
As a Guatemalan, I finally feel represented in this channel, lol. As a Spanish colony, we also adopted the above ground burial method (except our tombs are much more colourful) but there's so little of those in this channel.
I don't know how she does it but Caitlin always makes me feel so calm even when she is talking about shoveling bones.
I'm from Italy and it's incredible how New Orleans' cemetery looks like a typical Italian cemetery. All of my ancestors are resting in ovens, including my grandmother and grandfather who are resting in the same oven.
Edit: we also call the graves "forni", literally "oven" in italian.
Never heard "forni", they're called "loculi" loculus in my area
@@MaricaRosenrot forse è una forma dialettale? Io sono toscana, loculi è il termine in italiano ma tutti nel parlato li chiamano forni
@@camillar5402 è probabile, non ci avevo pensato! Ora grazie a te so una cosa nuova 🖤
Nelle Marche li chiamiamo fornetti, penso sia abbastanza comune
Da noi loculi o ossari, Como a rapporto. Comunque sì, è davvero molto simile ai nostri cimiteri e soprattutto la nozione che gli interramenti siano temporanei... tantissimi statunitensi non riescono davvero ad afferrare questo concetto quando vengono in Europa, ma onestamente... avessimo cimiteri come i loro avremmo finito lo spazio con la peste del 1600.
Per la gioia di Manzoni.
"Chomp chomp, my tiny clawed friends" 😂
I howled like a banshee at this bit and subsequently scared my wee feline friend. "Come at me Crayfish"..😂😂. X
"Please don't bury me down in the cold cold ground. Is rather have them cut me up, & pass me all around. "
- John Prine
Rest peacefully John Prine 🙏🎼🎶🎵
“In Spite of Ourselves”, we’ll join
you one day 🤞🏻.
Caitlin, you probably hear this a dozen times a day at least, but I think you're a remarkable woman. Talented, knowledgeable and obviously well educated, you inspire me. 👍 Thank you for that.
Props to the person behind the scenes, the editor, script writer.
Btw that miniature version really put a smile to my face.
Id hazard a guess and say she writes her own scripts. Shes a published author and frickin hilarious
Louise Hung is a producer and writer for Caitlin and Landis Blair does the editing. It's in the description ^.^
Elizabeth Crossley I work together with Louise Hung on the scripts, who is also hilarious!
@@AskAMortician it would be super cool to write an episode with you as a university project
I busted out laughing when she dumped the pezz out of the little casket and light it on fire with a bic lighter
Please sell tiny oven crypts as merch and I'll buy 20 of them.
And include tictac bones.
Yes!
I SECOND THE MOTION!
What are you going to do with 20 of them?
@@Upper_echelon_exotics bury tic tac bones, duh.
-Love this so much! I took my husband (then boyfriend) to Lafayette Cemetary No. 1 March 2018 to scope out my family tomb and we found it on a tour! We couldn't believe the tour guide saying that the Catholic church had consecrated baggies to literally vacuum the remains in the rental wall (ovens) after the year and day was up. Then sure enough, we heard a vacuum noise and someone was doing it, for sure!! They had the cute little baggie and everything. Then they placed the baggie in the family tomb...apparently family tomb had been too full to alott for the extra body so they went to rental wall first. Fascinating! Your little mini oven was cute, that's just how they explained it. Sweep it to the back! Love your videos, they are so great, thank you so much for all you do and share as a mortician. Helps normalize death in our society and inform people.
It's Like Martha Stewart and Morticia Adams had a love child! 😂😂😘
As a Southerner, I appreciate it greatly that you said CRAWFISH instead of CRAYFISH
I grew up calling 'em crawdads.
People say crayfish? I call them crawdads.
I respect people who choose to say “crayfish” or “crawdaddies,” even though they’re wrong lol
@@SplendidCoffee0 In Australia we call them Crayfish... What ever the name they're delicious..
Kate Metho it’s probably the best seafood of all time imo
Your little oven crypt model was adorable
it reminded me of a trash compactor
It really was! 😍
Was about to literally say the exact same thing! Lol
@A New Perspective they still sell candy cigarettes???
6:44 "I made this. Please be nice."
I do not need this prompting. That is adorable and I deeply appreciate the visual demonstration.
I can imagine that in the blistering heat of a New Orleans summer the oven crypts would live up to their name.
Another reason they were called oven crypts is because the small, inclosed spaces would heat up so much in the New Orleans heat that the bodies would decompose faster, allowing the process to be much easier.
Thanks, I was waiting on her to mention this.
Shewy!
AsHLiegH-MaRie HoPe it never got hot enough to cremate the body only help the bacteria breed more rapidly causing the body to break down at a faster rate then it would have anywhere else
This was my first thought! You don’t know what hot is until you pass a summer in the Crescent City!
Chomp, chomp, my tiny clawed friends. XD
You gotta suck out the brains, it's the best part!
That was so cute, I just love her!
I learn so much from watching your channel its one of my favorites,in fact I would love to be buried the natural way I want to be wrapped in a shroud and put in a basket and laid to rest in a field of wild flowers but I live in Texas and I dont think there are funeral homes that offer services like that,I guess I will have to move to California but intill then I will keep watching your channel and reading your books Thanks for all the information Tammy from Texas
As someone from New Orleans this made my heart sing! So well covered!
Me too, y'eard me
Just popping in to say I'm watching The Princess and the Frog and they had oven crypts in it and I got excited :)
Bury me underground. Bury me above ground. Bury me in the ocean. Bury me in the garden. Bury me in the closet. Bury me in the fridge. I really don't care except I DON'T WANT TO BE BURIED IN A PET SEMATARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do. 😉😈💀
🎶 Don't want to live my life again 🎶
I'd be down to be buried with Fido. I just don't want by bloated corpse found floating in some body of water. At least burn me up first or bury me from sight. Have some respect! 🔥💀
Sometimes dead is bettah
Aaaand I'm going to have that stuck in my head for the next week.
I misread the title as “ovarian cysts of New Orleans” and was deeply confused 😂
u made my day
I have the same trouble; I'm always reading the titles wrong. I think we're just extra imaginative (and mayhaps a wee bit blind >
I have ovarian cysts and in Baton Rouge.🤦
Wow, that’s cute.
Ovarian cysts in Michigan! You made my day, too!! Love a bit of dyslexia in the morning!
My great-grandfather is buried in a mass grave in New Orleans for a bunch of Norwegian sailors who died in the 50s. It wasn't an oven crypt but it was still cool to see his name on one of those plaques.
I’m a Nola native and I didn’t know 80% of this stuff, which is even more embarrassing for me because our family owns one of those larger, dedicated mausoleum sites (with at least 3 generations of my family, that I’m sure of.)
I dunno, I think there's something nice about the idea of my bones chilling with the rest of my family's bones after I die.
That's my literal hell.
Two types of people in the world.. ^😂😂
Cora: Depends on what side of the family!
@@Jsal17 😁😆😅🤣
It would be nice and comfy after I die ovo
I will from here on out refer to our skeletal remains as Tic Tacs.
There’s a town here in Mexico, specifically in the Campeche state, in which, at a yearly activity, they exhume their Tic Tacs and put them on display. Very ellaborate boxes hold these Tic Tacs, now present in a nich, with other personal belongings like clothes or toys. Some Tic Tacs are left with their hair, which makes everything particularly festive.
Although, some crypts have gates or plastic or glass panes, as Tic Tac theft is a well known felony around there.
Yes, I agree. Calling them Tic Tacs makes everything better! Lol!
Jay Flowers loved the info ♥️ and I love how committed you were to writing Tic Tacs 😂♥️
I liked her arts and crafts demonstration of the oven crypts. If I where an art teacher she would get an A+. Then again anything morbid gets brownie points in my book.
Thank you! I learned something new and wonderful today.
I visited New Orleans circa 1998. I hitchhiked coming in from the east, and from the back of the truck I was simply awed by the sheer amount of cemetery as far as the eye could see! Considering I kind of like cemeteries, I was quite fascinated.
So yeah -- if you have more lore about New Orleans's cemeteries, I am so, SO all ears!!!!!
Can I just say how much I loved your little demo with the mints and cardboard casket LOL
Those were dead babies teeth.
Best part of the video!!
Kirsten Dik oh hands down!!
My family actually has a tomb in St Louis Cemetery #1. That is still being used to this day.
Gives new meaning to "giving someone the shaft"😳
Last name checks out for believability. Lol
My uncle went to N.O. for a vacation a few years back. He said that one of the most interesting things was the oven crypts that the had and then proceeding to tell me all about them and why they did that. It was pretty freaking cool
I'm from Spain and yes, we mostly have oven crypts here! My grandparents, for example, died with a four year difference and they're buried together in that same space.
Decay by Crawfish.... Sounds like a great name for a metal band 😉
I LOVE IT!!
2:13 “chomp chomp my tiny clawed friends”
9:56 In the spirit of the community, I will be eaten by crawfish... Take me crawfish... I'm HERE... COME AT ME!
Your oven crypt demonstration was absolutely hilarious and genius at the same time it was Hilgenius!
I’m very late to comment on this, so goodness knows if Caitlin will see it. But in Australia, how long you have a grave depends on the location. In cities, it’s often up to 70 years, while in country towns it’s more common to be in perpetuity. Funnily enough, my grandmother was buried in the same grave as her mother, literally just on top of her mum’s coffin. Then when my grandpa died, we got permission to dig a little hole by the gravestone and add my grandpa’s ashes. We watered him in with bubbly (aka non-French champagne).
But another relative of mine was buried near the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne. The cemetery subsequently became the Queen Vic Market car park 😂
In the wise words of Danny DeVito “when I’m dead just throw me in the garbage”
Just like good ol' Diogenes.
@@ginnrollins211 mr o'nella taught you well
I love how often I see this quote in Caitlyn's CZcams videos. It's so perfect every time.
Same
I love that I read that in his voice
Your books and videos have encouraged me to finally seek out my dreams and start my schooling to become a Mortician! I have been accepted and am getting ready to pick out classes! 😊
Good luck!!
I have a degree in mortuary sciences, I no longer work in the field, but follow your dreams.
Be careful. The funeral industry likes to destroy ethical people. Most of the ethical funeral directors and embalmers have left the field or were forced out. "Nice guys finish last"....especially in the funeral industry.
Congrats
Yes!!! Get that education girl!! That’s my dream too. I hope you go far with it 😄😄😄
That visual demo is one of the best things I've ever seen
I'll never look at Tic-Tacs the same way again...
As someone who worked the post-Katrina clean up operations, I'm thankful for the oven crypts. You can't float your way out of them like other tombs and end up in someone's lawn, in the middle of the road, or worse be lost completely into a random canal or swamp.
We call them “Cities of the Dead.” It’s really neat to see them while driving on I10 in New Orleans. ❤️⚜️
I'd love to visit the necropolis if I ever get a chance to go to the US. :) Cemeteries are so beautiful.
I really liked the little oven crypt you made as a visual tool, that was nice.
i was a little disappointed the clay looked unbaked. i feel like a behind the scenes oven crypt baking end card would have fit nicely with her humor, but perhaps it would be a bit too on the nose.
When I was in High School I was was apart of this college ready program. In this program they took us to New Orleans and organized a ghost tour and oven crypt tour. I loved both, so much to learn. I hope to go back one day with my boyfriend and have him do the tours with me.
This is one of my most favorite places on earth.. I absolutely love the cemeteries in new Orleans
In the part of Germany where my mom comes from (small town in Bavaria) the graves are emptied after 11 years if the family doesn’t pay more. Some of the churches in these places have crypts where the bones are stored afterwards, putting family members together if possible. The skulls can be painted and are then displayed in the crypt. Google „Beinhaus“ for pics.
my mum is from Bavaria too (Nurnberg), and when she dies, I am tempted to request to disinter her bones when she should be skeletonised and store them in a nice box. my sister might freak out though...
I didn’t know this. I just googled it. How interesting.
Katha Rina Caitlin should do a video on that. Very interesting!
I have a (weird) question - do you happen to know who does the painting? Is it left up to the family of the deceased, or are there people specialising in the decorations of the skulls?
That's a beautiful tradition
Omg the mini oven crypt demonstration was adorable. I shall now always think of Tic Tacs as mini bones. Seriously though, love you and your channel. I was speaking with Mike from Obscura in NYC at a convention last weekend and he speaks very highly of you. You rock. 🖤
I thought that the "mini bones" were Pez candy! Lolol
If only she had Halloween candy bones handy, it would have been over-the-top awesomeness!
She's so adorable. Honestly. Wish I could meet her in person. Always finds light in a dark part of life.
I absolutely adore the yards in New Orleans! I love going and doing black and white photos of the beautiful crypts
Did you photo the Voo Doo Crypt of Marie LaVou ??
I want a mini oven crypt as a candy dispenser for my living room!
C Faz it wouldn’t be a living room anymore.
Remains shaped candies would pop out the bottom ❤
@@ToutCQJM I expect you know where the exit is, please show yourself out. 🤣
C Faz YOU are a GORGEOUS Woman!
Just Sayin'! :D
Lol
*DISCLAIMER: No crawfish were harmed in the making of this video.*
*Many crawfish were fed during the making of this video.*
But many were harmed after, because now we have a craving.
Aye got crawdads in muh pants!
None got a meal, either from the looks of things.
GIMME!!!! Nom nom nom
I live in New York state but our city cemeteries have tons of awesome mausoleums, they're like little buildings with a door and you put your family's caskets in there along the sides. Family members can unlock the doors and go inside, light candles and put flowers and things on a little alter. Also a cool place to stash things you don't want in your house 🤔 🤷🏻♂️
I love the tic tac remains 🤣 I loved that demo so much.
I LOVED YOUR OVEN TOMB MODEL. You should sell it to Fisher Price for the next generation of deathlings to enjoy.
I liked that mini oven crypt demonstration! Had to laugh when you used Tic Tacs for the bones, though. I still want a green burial or cremation, but the oven crypts are definitely something to keep in mind.
I loved the "I made this be nice tag", and until her hand came into frame I thought It was a really good amateur cgi, but the actual clay and cardboard, even better
Have only just come across your channel Caitlin! I read your book “smoke gets in your eyes” about 6 years ago and it changed my life and outlook on death.... You’re honestly such an inspiration and have such an amazing, hilarious personality, which was a big reason for why I responded to your book so much ❤️ subbed queen ❤️
Love this vid! I work at a cemetery and what people get confused by is perpetual care means is general upkeep; trimming grass, filling in holes etc. If something happens to the monument like it falls over(rare nowadays) that's the family's responsibility to get it fixed. Grounds crews do not have the ability to fix monuments.
This may be my favorite video of all time! "Come at me, crawfish!" 😆
Soggy coffins sounds like a great band name :3
Sounds moist
Soggy coffins sounds like some sort of ailment that Big Pharma wants to cure.
Excellent.
Definitely a heavy metal band!
I just want to say hi, my name is also Lilith (I'm on my husband's account).. I never see anyone else who is named this as well.🥰
Not gonna lie...this is my favorite method of burial! I want my bones to be shoved on top of the bones of my relatives! I don't wanna die alone!.. Must be my Italian heritage😍
I LOVED your oven crypt! I truly hope you kept that little beauty.
The mini oven crypt, should become an Historical souvenir. Adore.
Ginny Anderson I LOVED IT
I love the oven crypt model! Does anyone else remember that candy that was shaped like bones that could fit together and came in little plastic coffins?
I do! There were enough candy bones to make one skeleton and a few extra.
I loved those as a kid and wish I could find them now as an adult.
Yes, they were great! Thanks for the blast from the past. X
Jeffrey Walters if you search coffin candy on google you can find them.
I loved those! I always begged my mom to get me a couple of them so I would have enough little bones to reconstruct a candy bone skeleton! Yes. I was the weird kid. I am 500% okay with that now.
Ty for mini oven demo. I admit I was having trouble visualizing how the remains, being pushed back, would fall DOWN. PS: Erin Lee is right- it's ADORABLE, too!
That was the coolest demonstration of how a oven crypt works. Solved my curiosity.💀
I just like old graveyards for the artwork. Back then you had real craftsman that even on simpler headstones would often carve lovely cherubs or angels or vine work and on family stones they could be quite intricate, like the one from the 1850s in one of our older cemeteries that looks like a large tree trunk, just wonderful stone work.
In 1996 The New York Times reported that tourists visiting New Orleans cemeteries increasingly the targets of muggers.
When I was little in New Orleans my Nana used to take me and my cousins to visit our dead relatives in a cemetery much like this one. It was a great place to play hide and go seek.
Then, having been sufficiently irritated with our shenanigans, she showed us where we’d be buried one day.
Another beautiful thing about the graveyard culture in New Orleans is that it's an old custom to have a picnic in the cemetery. Easily one of my favorite things about New Orleans.
James Sigrist The custom to picnic in a cemetery was a 19th Century tradition when cemeteries were more park like and designed for family time with the deceased. We have those same cemeteries here in Michigan.
Hm..this custom is also practiced in Mexicon on El dìa de los muertos..The day of the dead.
My grandmother who is from New Orleans has memories of going to the cemetery to eat with deceased family.
This was really big back in the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. Families would gather around the cemetery where their loved ones were buried, place flowers, and have a picnic. The children would play in the graveyard just like it was a playground. We've ventured away from this custom now. I think it has more to do with a lack of respect for our dead than anything, but that's just my opinion. We just don't have that much "time" to invest in our dead anymore or our families for that matter. We don't teach our young to respect the legacy that grandma and grandpa left.
I learned from a lady at one of the Nola cemeteries about the old sayin I wouldn’t touch you with a 10ft pole. They use a 10ft pole with a straight edge at the bottom. They use it to push loved ones remains to the back of the crypt. She was working on her family crypt her husband had been entombed there for almost a year. Special place in my heart for Nola and the people of Louisiana. I’m born and raised in central Alabama. Thank you for your vids! I guess we are all twisted one way or another.
I found you a few months ago and I can’t stop watching all your videos they make me so happy inside 🥰
My cat died last night. Had him for 16 years, and I'm just sitting here with a dead cat watching CZcams videos. I dunno
Awh, you just made me well up and shed a tear. You'll know when you have part with him. Keep him close for a little longer - I know I'd do the same.
I’m so sorry. It was 2 years ago yesterday since my cat died, I know how hard it is. 16 years is a lot of love you and your cat shared, over time you’ll see it more that way but in the meantime take care of yourself 💕
So sad to hear it, really. Take your time with your old furry friend. I'm sure he was a nice cat and your personal sunshine! 💖
Now I'm gonna tell mine that I love him.
I'm sorry for your loss. 🖤
I’m so sorry for your loss 😢. It’s never easy to let go or know what to do after they have passed. Your cat had the best life with you and lived to an amazing age. Just make sure you keep him really cold until you can decide what to do next. If you want to chat I’m here xx 💕💕
That visual was 🔥🔥🔥 ! Get it? Fire? Oven? No? Ok....
Hint for the Y’all pronunciation. It’s pronounced Yaww, at least here in moonshine country.
Correct. The Ls are a trick to weed out the uninitiated... Those born here know the Ls don’t actually get pronounced haha
I love cemeteries and it creeps my husband out. Every city I visit I go to cemeteries. Growing up in Philly there are historical cemeteries and that is where my fascination came from. New Orleans has the most interesting cemeteries and I couldn’t enough of them. Lafayette gave me the chills but I couldn’t stop walking around. Instead of doing a tour of the garden district, drinking on Bourbon Street or doing a swamp tour I rented a car and did the cemetery tour.
Q: how can I prevent my dead body from being chewed on by crawfish ?
A: GET CREMATED.
Mingle your bones with tic tacs. Crawfish are notorious for not caring if they have halitosis
Maybe I wanna be eaten? :)
"Circle of life"? 😅
that won't work. they'd still use your ashes as protein powder to strengthen their claws.
My mom passed away on March 20th...and was cremated...she loved your videos!...So do I...
There's so many people on here willing to listen if you need to talk.
Mike C
I understand, I just lost my mother February 20th this year than I lost my grandmother four weeks and six days later. I’m sorry for your loss as well. I hope you know, you are not alone even if it feels that way.
So very sorry for your loss.
You both have my condolences.
@@Lillybellll I'm doing ok...hard days and not so hard days....
I just discovered your videos, and I'm already loving them.
My children loved the cemetery near our holiday appartement on a Greek island. The charnel house was stacked with what looked like large shoe boxes. Some of them had no lid, and you could see the bones inside with a photograph of the owner of said bones on top. Later that year or early the next, we visited a church (in Wieuwerd) not far from our home town, which has naturally mummified bodies in the crypt. This got them very excited as well, especially my daughter.
Im just saying...I am not opposed to the concept of "grave sharing." I would do it. Bring on the grave mates!
So long as they wash their dirty dishes, I'm aight with this.
@@NI-ko5kt and as long as they don't use all the toilet paper or eat your food 🤣
Their like little ossuaries
You might get someone like my neighbour...Forever...nope
@@fairychangeling8337 Im pretty sure my neighbor is a meth dealer...I can't do much worse 🤣
Please do a segment on the Key West Cemetery! There's a handful of famous crypts such as BP Roberts "I Told You I Was Sick" and headstones that have "grown into trees". It's overall a gorgeous and unique cemetery, just like the island it serves.
That's where my daddy grew up
I visited Key West Cemetery on my honeymoon 22 years ago. It’s an amazing place and I’m so glad that I go visit it. There is a lovely memorial in memory of the USS Maine that I had the privilege to see along with paying my respects to the soldiers buried there.
Hey that’s my grandma’s coffin floating in front of the church. 🙈 Thats technicality St Amant too.
I could watch these videos all day. Thank you ❤️
I watch you’re videos so much that my rats recognize your voice!
Achievement unlocked.
This is so wholesome. :D
Kahsennonkwas deer-toelle awwwww 🥰
Cool!
Omg this is so cute. I have ratties too!!
i was soooo lost before the tic tacs! thank goodness she made that little model. i mean i was cracking up but also it not confused anymore
Your demonstration of how the oven crypt works was perfect!! Many of the mausoleums are quite beautiful!! ♡♡♡
I just discovered your channel and I am obsessed! I wish you would have been my teachers in high school! I love your presentation, voice... it is all great!!
OMGosh, that’s just like in Spain (as you said). Our family crypt has several dozen in it. A person is laid to rest and 7 years later another can be added. After the existing coffin is removed and the remains wrapped up in a cloth.
Love New Orleans cemeteries!
What happens if a family member passes away before the 7 years?
@@deborahgate965 I want to know also
@@deborahgate965 The newly dead body might be placed in another crypt or grave in order to decompose properly. That's what they do where I'm from.
You don't work on the "y'all", you simply accept the "y'all".
Don't fight the "y'all" Y'all.
Yasss! Eventually you will have to accept the y’all. Y’all!
Thank you for this informative video! I was literally sitting here with my mouth opened in awe listening. I'd heard that there were several people buried in one vault but now it makes perfect sense🤗.
I absolutely adore you Caitlyn!!! Your knowledge is inspiring!! Thanks for coming to my home state and explaining to the masses why we do what we have to do in this swamp!!