The cemetery where the dead are buried by people who never knew them | ABC Australia
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- Each year, hundreds of people without family or next of kin are buried in country Victoria by volunteers who never knew them.
When someone dies and no next of kin can be found - or no-one volunteers to pay for a burial - State Trustees becomes responsible.
Since 2007, Old Ballan Cemetery is one of several locations in Victoria which State Trustees has been using to inter the people who, even in death, have nowhere else to go.
Video by Rhiannon Stevens
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When it is my time to go I have no family to bury me. I am more than happy to give all my earthly possessions and my house if only someone would be kind enough to take care of my last wishes.
I’m pretty sure that if you state what you want in your will and have enough resources there’s plenty of places that would honor your wishes, the people featured are wards of the state, I signed my father over to nsw at the time I didn’t have money to care/bury him and nsw gov was kind enough to cremate and send his ashes in a nice box to me after his death without charge just be careful advertising your situation my friend as there’s lots of organisations that after your $ and not your wishes
I will. Move to Leeton NSW where we are a caring community
@SoundOfOceanBlue Hello. It is important you let someone know what your last wishes are. You could write them and keep it somewhere, so people see it easily, like in your wallet or on your wall. Love to you!
Same here…
Isnt it rather sad this type of situation. I feel for you. If your last wishes are about your possessions and house, a lawyer and a will can take care of that. Even perhaps leaving in your will your possessions to somewhere like the Salvation Army, I am sure they would collect your stuff and take it and sell it. It will take someone to clean up your house to sell as well.
It all depends on your last wishes but a lawyer would make a good start and a will. God Bless and I wish you well wherever you live.
Thankyou to the volunteers at the old Ballan cemetery for the kindness and respect that you have shown to these poor people.
Thankyou for looking after them and giving them dignity.
I think these people are doing a wonderful service to the community.
That's very sad that these poor souls pass away alone. Thank you for giving them a respectful burial. Bless you ❤
Thank you to the kind people involved for their efforts in laying to rest those who have departed , The folks involved have my absolute respect . 🇦🇺
Thank you to the people who volunteer their time to give dignity to those who have no one to care.
What a beautiful service these people give
Wonderful story and thank you for the care you take for these australians. May they RIP.
So happy to see that someone still cares
Good to see that everyone can be treated with dignity at the end.
This is an act of love and respect
Thank you to everyone involved.
That's a beautiful story. So sad that someone could die and no relative or friend can be found, but at least they are laid to rest with dignity. 🙏
It's good that these people who probably had difficult lives are treated with dignity in the end.
Bless them for caring and doing this. It’s awful that there are so many
None of us know what is in the future. Thank you for treating people with dignity. May they rest in peace.
Thank you for this video.
All I can say is, Thank You!
What a beautiful story, but how sad. At least there is dignity in the resting place of these poor people. 💐💐
Thank you.
I have never given this issue a thought! Thank you for the informative video. All the best from Sydney.
Thank you ❤❤❤
What amazing thing you guys do. 👏👏
They seem like nice good hearted people that carry out these funerals anyhow. A way better alternative to perhaps having cold hearted unloving relatives standing around awaiting your burial because one tiny inner voice said to them " at least you should attend - even if you don't care to ".
They are doing an awesomely good thing. God bless them !!✝️🙏
THANKYOU FOR CARING FOR THOSE PEOPLE, GREAT JOB :}
God Bless them all.
Doing wonderful job.
Most war cemeteries are like this, people being buried by strangers.
Respect
How very sad and heartbreaking, may they all 🌹🌹RIP 🌹🌹
Thanks Lord for your peace
Thanks Lord for your salvation
Psalm 23
Great people ❤
How cool is that😊
I was a gravedigger and we buried a few pauper burials usually on the edge of the cemetery I worked in. I did not know 99% of the people I buried. Sometimes it is very hard to find a paupers grave. There would be only myself, a co-worker and the funeral director attending the burial. Very sad occasions...
That is sad but interesting. Lonely lives and lonely deaths.
Found my mothers grave , she was buried with many others in a single grave. After I found it I wanted to put a plaque or stone, but it would not be fair to all the others buried with her. 😢😢
Death with dignity. What a wonderful story.
What a wonderful idea.
If I lived down under, I'd end up in this place.
New dead guy 'where am i'
Out friends ' good to see you back again welcome to the new family '
Sad, very sad.
Generally caused by a complete family breakdown . Sad but is becoming more common.
What a special thing to do. It would be good if more cemetery trusts did this, unfortunately most of them seem to care more about money than people.
So many people that no one cares about or knows.They were people who when they were alive we walked right past on the street looking the other way.
Revelation 21:4
"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
In the Old testament somebody who buries another specifically somebody who has no one else to bury them and nowhere else to be buried is considered doing literally a great service literally it goes who is guaranteed heaven, one who Dowers abride, one who buries the Dead... Is actually doesn't translate as heaven but as the world to come but somebody who does that is considered as being guaranteed. How much more so since they volunteer to do this.
The state can't give them a cheap & standardised headstone?
Ameen
this is weird, where did all teh comments go, including mine??
a cross marks the place, humble ending
May they all rest in peace, it is wonderful that they are buried, and not burnt. God talks about being buried and nothing else. Amen!
Very sad 😢! Put those silly family arguments aside , that no will remember in 25 years and enjoy each other while you can.
More dignity than is sometimes afforded to Brits in the same situation....take note, UK local authorities
Probably where I'll end up.
It's nice to see these people treated with respect. I wonder, though, if their families might be perturbed by the default 'Christian' lean to the proceedings.
It's a judgement on society isn't it that the government doesn't care
:(
As this generation of heroic volunteers passes on, who will stand up to take their place? Where are the young people?
A modern day paupers grave?😢
Sounds like Palestine, on a much smaller scale.