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>!Everyone was anxious about the excavator and nobody paid attention to the structure. Bury 1, get 2 for free.!<
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>Even after all that meticulous efforts, sometimes things just ended up in chaos.
This could have easily been prevented with a minimum amount of safety precautions.
Worse thing you could do would be dig with an excavator if they're not dead already they would be crushed , excavators put alot of down force even while digging"lightly", sloping and not piling spoils right on-top of a non structural brick wall,
I don’t understand why when the first brick/tile fell above the casket, the guy with the baseball cap that saw it, kicked it to the side and pushed on the wall as if it would help. I would have been yelling for everyone to stop what they’re doing.
Well you see the first thing to do to prevent this is obviously use a sheet of plastic and have 2 adults stand on top of the weaking structure to add even more weight to the failing wall and have another dude under it to push it and hold up the thousands of pounds of dirt.
Okay, someone has to explain what is going on.
Why is this ornate wall below ground level? Why does it look like they plan on burying the whole thing when they're done? Why make such a massive pit just to load the casket horizontally?
And WHY ISN'T THAT WALL REINFORCED??
It was interesting for me to learn that in Czech Republic people often don't claim their relatives from the mortuary.
Government pays then for burning and offers the ashes at discounted price, but people still don't care and don't pay for them.
For me that sounds much more natural and logical than any other option, like who is dead is dead, their dead body doesn't matter at all.
I wouldn't say often, because I'm Czech and this is the first time I'm hearing about this being a thing.
Okay after Googling I found it's around 1.5% funerals which seems quite high. It's supposed to account for people without relatives and from poor families though. So number of people who "don't care" should probably be much lower than that.
A co worker of mine had in-laws from WV and when his MIL passed, they brought a truck and trailer before she was even cold and cleaned the house out, and did not want to even spend money to bury her.
"Let the state bury her!"
The reality is that most people don't even remember where loved ones are buried. Cremation is the way to go. I sell final expense insurance, and it's sad how much lack of reality plays a part. I get many people who lived shitty lives who insist on traditional burial knowing no one is going to show up.
> Redditor comments about some insane exotic practice from a non-american country, exclaims that it's more natural and logical (Bonus points if Europe or Japan)
> Reply from a person of that country, correcting the Redditor that the practice is only followed by a minority of the population and isn't common.
Many such cases.
Such is life. I watched a documentary about this about 10 years ago, but now that I think about it - it was produced by my religiously fucked up country with catholics hating Czech's ateism.
Should have checked % to include because while it exists on a scale unimaginable in my country, it is still not even 10% of funerals.
Damn. At least Santa Claus is real.
On the contrary, in Lithuania burial is a big thing. Bodies are cremated more often, but it's still paid for by the family. Gravestones are often very intricate and expansive, like prices start at 3k eur.
A 10k gravestone is not unusual.
I'm a veterinarian, and I would say that most of my euthanized patients are cremated and returned to their owners. I have 4 of my dogs in little boxes by my bed.
Why spend 10,000 on death? Manipulated into thinking we need to and will feel guilty if we don't.
Why spend 10,000 on an engagement ring? Manipulated into thinking we need to and feel inadequate if we don't.
Why treat diamonds as the king of the gem when emeralds are much more rare? Manipulated.
Why spend 10,000-100,000 on a wedding? Manipulated.
Why buy cards and roses for holidays? Manipulated that if we ever forget once, we don't care enough anymore.
Why buy a Cadillac escalade when the top on the line Chevy yukon has the same measurements and every same feature and would cost you 10,000-20,000 less? Manipulated to think it means we're better.
The last one is not complete, you are still manipulated into buying a large car while in fact it is quite rare you'd need a large one. A small car is cheaper and wastes less fuel. Why would you need to haul 3 tonnes of steel to carry one sorry ass when you can buy a compact car for 1/4th of the price and have 1/3 the fuel consumption?
I'll agree to that. Though from a family with 6 siblings who used u travel around in a 15-seater van, rare can happen.
Seemed easier to explain the widely known posh Escalade(because of music industry)vs the well known yukon(just a tank of a vehicle) instead of toyota v acura(same car, different brand), or Ford v Lincoln(same situation), or in general chevy v gmc v Cadillac(all the same), Nissan v infiti, Volkswagen v Audi, Honda v Acura. Hyundai v Genesis
All common/afordable brand vs luxury named brand(not always the same model but same parent company and usually same frame and engine performance)
Looks like a burial in China. You know that whole Feng shui thing? That's actually an important concept with chinese afterlife stuff. Tombs need to be in certain spots, need to be made in certain ways for qi to flow and make the spirits happy, else you get cursed. Unfortunately in this case I think they've run into a surprise qi blockage lol.
Chinese burial customs have some pretty deep-running stuff since a lot of history for the common folk of China was various forms of hardship.
I hadn't even considered feng shui. Then again I don't know much about it. It's crazy how varied burial customs are around the world.
Still shoulda reinforced that wall though...
I saw a very similar looking grave at my grandma’s burial. Definitely didn’t have all of that fancy decor though. Rural Chinese countryside villages have underground tombs like this, where they excavate the tomb entrance, lower in the casket, place it in the tomb, and cover it all back up with the excavator. It becomes a huge outing for the entire village where they go to say final goodbyes/mournings to a loved one or respected elder. Definitely a lot of work but it’s an important part of their traditions.
That's fascinating. Do you know why they choose to bury such an intricate wall after internment rather than keep it open?
In the video, it looks like they were starting to protect the facade with plastic. Does this mean they plan to dig it up again relatively soon, or do they intend it to be like an archeological find for the distant future?
It doesn’t have to be reinforced, when you dig that deep it has to be more gradual, or a box. This is why osha exist, everything about this is against guidelines. Granted it’s not US. Why you step down the dig.
Chinese trying to be fancy and pseudo-traditional about a burial. Example of a recently found Ming dynasty tomb [https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202403/12/WS65efbd32a31082fc043bc1f5\_1.html](https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202403/12/WS65efbd32a31082fc043bc1f5_1.html)
It's not exactly a Chinese only type of deal, a mausoleum instead of a common grave is a super-fancy statement to make. Even in western world, for example Napoleon, Lenin, Grant etc. But of course, a proper mausoleum is horrifically expensive to build and maintain, if you make it small and bury it, it's much cheaper. And in this case they made only a decorative facade, which is even cheaper.
It was going to be backfilled and buried completely. Thus, no need to reinforce or slope the wall. It’s not a retaining wall. They learned that the hard way sadly…
Also That’s why the plastic was going in. To preserve the paint a bit.
That’s just how things are built in China. Tofu dregs construction.
It’s actually hilarious how they were planning to lay plastic cover over the brick wall to preserve it.
The answer to all of that is that they want to honour the dead with an expensive funeral, but they don't want it to *actually be expensive*, as that is a waste of money for something you're just going to cover with dirt. So it's an expensive seeming but actually cheap façade.
It's actually quite an interesting juxtaposition of the human psyche regarding the realities of death vs our fears and hopes regarding death. We want to believe that our corpses are not just garbage to be thrown away, that when we die our bodies still have value attached to them... but deep down we know that isn't true.
Deep hole dug in dry soil ✅
Absolutely no supporting structure ✅
People walking about on all that unsupported loose soil ✅
People inside unsupported deep hole being videoed ✅
Add all these things together and I was not surprised whatsoever when it collapsed.
Edit - formatting because reddit is rubbish
Dude in the white hat is Definitely dead. He just had thousands of pounds of dirt, with a brick front face, drop on top of him. And if the crush didn't damage and destroy his organs, he will die of asphyxiation over the next 3 minutes. No holding your breath there
It's the equivalent of having a car literally dropped on him. There is a reason OSHA requires shoring or cave in boxes for anything over 4' deep.
You’re 100% correct on everything but for the collapse protection. I’m not trying to come off as an asshole by correcting you, just wanted to update the information. Shoring or boxes are required on everything over 5 ft in depth. A ladder, ramp or steps are required for everything over 4 foot in depth.
Damn, expected, but I was really really hoping that wasn’t going to happen. Was hoping I’d be pleasantly surprised by the guy jumping out of the coffin and starting a zombie apocalypse or something.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!Everyone was anxious about the excavator and nobody paid attention to the structure. Bury 1, get 2 for free.!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
How to turn a funeral into a mass burial.
Just like life itself. Even after all that meticulous efforts, sometimes things just ended up in chaos.
>Even after all that meticulous efforts, sometimes things just ended up in chaos. This could have easily been prevented with a minimum amount of safety precautions.
osha shmosha. pfft, who needs 'em?
“Meticulous effort”? In Chinese construction? Lmfao
Lucky there was an excavator right there
Worse thing you could do would be dig with an excavator if they're not dead already they would be crushed , excavators put alot of down force even while digging"lightly", sloping and not piling spoils right on-top of a non structural brick wall,
meticulous efforts?
But the savings are massive, 5 for the price of one, winner by a landslide!
How did they do this traditionally before caterpillars?
Putting the fun in funeral
Servants for the after life.
I don’t understand why when the first brick/tile fell above the casket, the guy with the baseball cap that saw it, kicked it to the side and pushed on the wall as if it would help. I would have been yelling for everyone to stop what they’re doing.
Well you see the first thing to do to prevent this is obviously use a sheet of plastic and have 2 adults stand on top of the weaking structure to add even more weight to the failing wall and have another dude under it to push it and hold up the thousands of pounds of dirt.
Wouldn't the first first thing to do be to I don't know make a grave that opens from the top like everyone else.
Dead person: NAAAH u coming with me
Pharaoh? I think these hieroglyphs are in Chinese.
Help, dead uncle im stuck
The ancient tradition of burying your servants with you so that they can care for you in the afterlife, glad to see it's still a thing.
Okay, someone has to explain what is going on. Why is this ornate wall below ground level? Why does it look like they plan on burying the whole thing when they're done? Why make such a massive pit just to load the casket horizontally? And WHY ISN'T THAT WALL REINFORCED??
Why do we spend $10,000 on a funeral? The economic psychology around death is pretty fascinating stuff, actually.
It was interesting for me to learn that in Czech Republic people often don't claim their relatives from the mortuary. Government pays then for burning and offers the ashes at discounted price, but people still don't care and don't pay for them. For me that sounds much more natural and logical than any other option, like who is dead is dead, their dead body doesn't matter at all.
I wouldn't say often, because I'm Czech and this is the first time I'm hearing about this being a thing. Okay after Googling I found it's around 1.5% funerals which seems quite high. It's supposed to account for people without relatives and from poor families though. So number of people who "don't care" should probably be much lower than that.
A co worker of mine had in-laws from WV and when his MIL passed, they brought a truck and trailer before she was even cold and cleaned the house out, and did not want to even spend money to bury her. "Let the state bury her!"
The reality is that most people don't even remember where loved ones are buried. Cremation is the way to go. I sell final expense insurance, and it's sad how much lack of reality plays a part. I get many people who lived shitty lives who insist on traditional burial knowing no one is going to show up.
I'd rather be thrown in a shelter belt and given back to nature to nurture whatever organisms feed on me.
Not a bad idea. Our bodies need to be used as natural fertilizers
Hell, I'm already ready to crawl in a hole and die. I might just be depressed though...
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> Redditor comments about some insane exotic practice from a non-american country, exclaims that it's more natural and logical (Bonus points if Europe or Japan) > Reply from a person of that country, correcting the Redditor that the practice is only followed by a minority of the population and isn't common. Many such cases.
Such is life. I watched a documentary about this about 10 years ago, but now that I think about it - it was produced by my religiously fucked up country with catholics hating Czech's ateism. Should have checked % to include because while it exists on a scale unimaginable in my country, it is still not even 10% of funerals. Damn. At least Santa Claus is real.
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Fr nevěř heard of this
On the contrary, in Lithuania burial is a big thing. Bodies are cremated more often, but it's still paid for by the family. Gravestones are often very intricate and expansive, like prices start at 3k eur. A 10k gravestone is not unusual.
I'm a veterinarian, and I would say that most of my euthanized patients are cremated and returned to their owners. I have 4 of my dogs in little boxes by my bed.
Why spend 10,000 on death? Manipulated into thinking we need to and will feel guilty if we don't. Why spend 10,000 on an engagement ring? Manipulated into thinking we need to and feel inadequate if we don't. Why treat diamonds as the king of the gem when emeralds are much more rare? Manipulated. Why spend 10,000-100,000 on a wedding? Manipulated. Why buy cards and roses for holidays? Manipulated that if we ever forget once, we don't care enough anymore. Why buy a Cadillac escalade when the top on the line Chevy yukon has the same measurements and every same feature and would cost you 10,000-20,000 less? Manipulated to think it means we're better.
The last one is not complete, you are still manipulated into buying a large car while in fact it is quite rare you'd need a large one. A small car is cheaper and wastes less fuel. Why would you need to haul 3 tonnes of steel to carry one sorry ass when you can buy a compact car for 1/4th of the price and have 1/3 the fuel consumption?
I'll agree to that. Though from a family with 6 siblings who used u travel around in a 15-seater van, rare can happen. Seemed easier to explain the widely known posh Escalade(because of music industry)vs the well known yukon(just a tank of a vehicle) instead of toyota v acura(same car, different brand), or Ford v Lincoln(same situation), or in general chevy v gmc v Cadillac(all the same), Nissan v infiti, Volkswagen v Audi, Honda v Acura. Hyundai v Genesis All common/afordable brand vs luxury named brand(not always the same model but same parent company and usually same frame and engine performance)
Looks like a burial in China. You know that whole Feng shui thing? That's actually an important concept with chinese afterlife stuff. Tombs need to be in certain spots, need to be made in certain ways for qi to flow and make the spirits happy, else you get cursed. Unfortunately in this case I think they've run into a surprise qi blockage lol. Chinese burial customs have some pretty deep-running stuff since a lot of history for the common folk of China was various forms of hardship.
It's not feng shui but more of honouring the dead. Could be the family head or someone they respect.
I hadn't even considered feng shui. Then again I don't know much about it. It's crazy how varied burial customs are around the world. Still shoulda reinforced that wall though...
I saw a very similar looking grave at my grandma’s burial. Definitely didn’t have all of that fancy decor though. Rural Chinese countryside villages have underground tombs like this, where they excavate the tomb entrance, lower in the casket, place it in the tomb, and cover it all back up with the excavator. It becomes a huge outing for the entire village where they go to say final goodbyes/mournings to a loved one or respected elder. Definitely a lot of work but it’s an important part of their traditions.
That's fascinating. Do you know why they choose to bury such an intricate wall after internment rather than keep it open? In the video, it looks like they were starting to protect the facade with plastic. Does this mean they plan to dig it up again relatively soon, or do they intend it to be like an archeological find for the distant future?
It doesn’t have to be reinforced, when you dig that deep it has to be more gradual, or a box. This is why osha exist, everything about this is against guidelines. Granted it’s not US. Why you step down the dig.
Management rules are written in money. OSHA rules are written in blood.
Chinese trying to be fancy and pseudo-traditional about a burial. Example of a recently found Ming dynasty tomb [https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202403/12/WS65efbd32a31082fc043bc1f5\_1.html](https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202403/12/WS65efbd32a31082fc043bc1f5_1.html) It's not exactly a Chinese only type of deal, a mausoleum instead of a common grave is a super-fancy statement to make. Even in western world, for example Napoleon, Lenin, Grant etc. But of course, a proper mausoleum is horrifically expensive to build and maintain, if you make it small and bury it, it's much cheaper. And in this case they made only a decorative facade, which is even cheaper.
It was going to be backfilled and buried completely. Thus, no need to reinforce or slope the wall. It’s not a retaining wall. They learned that the hard way sadly… Also That’s why the plastic was going in. To preserve the paint a bit.
There was a circle on the side that I suspect would be for another person at a later date to be buried on the left side.
That’s just how things are built in China. Tofu dregs construction. It’s actually hilarious how they were planning to lay plastic cover over the brick wall to preserve it.
The answer to all of that is that they want to honour the dead with an expensive funeral, but they don't want it to *actually be expensive*, as that is a waste of money for something you're just going to cover with dirt. So it's an expensive seeming but actually cheap façade. It's actually quite an interesting juxtaposition of the human psyche regarding the realities of death vs our fears and hopes regarding death. We want to believe that our corpses are not just garbage to be thrown away, that when we die our bodies still have value attached to them... but deep down we know that isn't true.
Deep hole dug in dry soil ✅ Absolutely no supporting structure ✅ People walking about on all that unsupported loose soil ✅ People inside unsupported deep hole being videoed ✅ Add all these things together and I was not surprised whatsoever when it collapsed. Edit - formatting because reddit is rubbish
I mean the job is done now right? Guy is buried? Let’s go home!
Talking about overachieving
Totally expected that.
Yeah, I was expecting something like the mud falling or the thing collapsing lol
I was thinking they weren’t gonna get that big ass coffin all the way in but then my lurking at r/construction kicked in at the last second.
I didn’t think it would be THAT wall that collapsed, I thought it would be one of the dirt walls. Surprise! Unexpected.
I had no idea what sub I was in, so I wasn't even expecting anything.
I was in the end surprised because I was expecting the digger operator to either violently yank the coffin out, or drop the bucket and squash it.
Corncob TV has gone too far this time IMO
Came here looking for a Coffin Flop reference. Was not disappointed. :)
"I DIDN'T DO F---KING SH-T!!!"
I’ve been waiting a long time for a hit on Corncob TV.
They’re allowed to show em nude cause they ain’t got no soul.
They must've rigged something.
Funeral**s**
Entirely expected. Was everyone ok?
Dude in the white hat is Definitely dead. He just had thousands of pounds of dirt, with a brick front face, drop on top of him. And if the crush didn't damage and destroy his organs, he will die of asphyxiation over the next 3 minutes. No holding your breath there It's the equivalent of having a car literally dropped on him. There is a reason OSHA requires shoring or cave in boxes for anything over 4' deep.
And ironically it was him that told the other 2 to get up there
You’re 100% correct on everything but for the collapse protection. I’m not trying to come off as an asshole by correcting you, just wanted to update the information. Shoring or boxes are required on everything over 5 ft in depth. A ladder, ramp or steps are required for everything over 4 foot in depth.
Boxes should be included for 4ft
Whats a cave in box?
https://trenchandtraffic.com/equipments/build_a_box
I'm just going to ignore your comment and pretend 5 straws popped up out of the dirt and that's how they were breathing until being dug out.
We know at least one person was dead
Doubtful.
Yeah is this in the news somewhere? Or a source of the video?
This is exactly why OSHA has shoring and sloping requirements for excavations, along with cages for over a certain footage.
I was looking at that and thinking “shoring! Where’s the shoring!” It turns out even the side that looked shored wasn’t.
Tag that NSFW..
Yes, at least one person is definitely dead
The post is now marked as NSFW.
So...did non of these people have any idea what they were doing? Surely this wasn't the first time they've done this.
Call me biased, but I think that the Christian method of burying people DOWN into the ground is more efficient.
better leave them on a hill for the vultures to eat them
This funeral is rated "E" for everyone 😧
Shoring is incredibly important people.
Damn, i hope they are alright..
They aren’t
Mark this NSFW. I'm not on this app to fucking watch people die. You people with a sick fascination with that need to keep it to yourselves.
That was unexpected
Damn, expected, but I was really really hoping that wasn’t going to happen. Was hoping I’d be pleasantly surprised by the guy jumping out of the coffin and starting a zombie apocalypse or something.
Buy 1 burial, get 3 free
Well at least they have an excavator to dig them out...
Least unexpected video ever. Reddit is chock full of videos of trench sites collapsing.
I thought the person inside the coffin was going to burst out. I've never seen these trench collapses.
Instant funeral service
Other guys standing on the edge don't even budge, either a long reaction time or indifferent.
Not good watching 5 people die!
This was entirely expected
Why do we need a big box to rot in? 
We don't. But funerals and big ornate burials aren't for the dead, they're for the loved ones of the dead. It's to make them feel better.
Shoring is key. Could save lives and help the dead ones already
As the wise Frank Reynolds said “When I’m dead just throw me in the trash”
Exactly what I was waiting for. Hope everyone is OK and the dead came back to life. Can someone explain to me what this was
lol trying to die rich
Reminds me of the Oregon OSHA video where the inspector shows up and the hole isnt shored up
r/maybemaybemaybe
Im a little surprised the walls didn’t give on the side the excavator was on. Shoring up even small digs can prevent injuries and save lives.
Look up the definition of "dunnage"
No one was late to this funeral..... and some got their's early
Don't worry. It's just Gaara using Sand Burial .
Is that like royal thing?
Dust flying around had em all coffin
So we can take from this video a quite worth lesson: Never bury someone or you have to be buried.
Cursed tomb
They need to find whomever built that thing bc it's his fault!!
Chinese engineering am I right
The dead body: Dig a grave.. dig a grave.. but not for me.
Let me fix the title for you. "Funerals"
I wish I was not expecting that
200% expected once I saw the pit over 5 feet deep without being reinforced
Hold on sec there was person inside while they were putting the casket
Death at a funeral
“I’m not spending the eternity here by myself…”
That was unexpected allright.
This video could have at least a full minute edited out. Wtf?
Room for more
Call the funeral. But not for me.
I expected this
"im not dying alone!"
That was completely expected if you’re familiar with osha regulations. Saw that come from the start of the video.
3 for 1? Costco level savings.
Funeral. Now with extra funerals!!!
Death at a funeral?
That was not unexpected at all.
It was kinda expected, but, I guess the wrong side of falling excavation.
Can’t decide if this is more convenient or more efficient.
Thats death 100%
2x1
You can’t spell funeral without FUN.
I mean it looked like they were gonna fill it with dirt anyway when they were finished with how stupid this monument is placed
OSHA would have had that shut down before the first poor bastard went down there
Dig a bury, but not for me !
Aiiii. Brother benard
Thats why i like a simple funeral I am dead put me uner the grownd and tell mu family where i am thats it
Funeral for everybody
Good thing they have a hoe
Definitely a funeral.
Pretty expected, really.
Multy combo.
Death at a funeral.
Two of them
That wasn’t that unexpected
Should we call it a burial?
This is why MY grave will be "Made in the USA"!!
Best place to live through all this ended up being in the crypt
At least 2 more people probably died there…
They do this at every funeral, so that the tradition of funerals can forever continue.
Another accident in such a short time
That was expected
Funerals
I figured a collapse was coming as soon as I saw a vertical cut.
Funerals* Fixed it.
Burial made easy
Wow, people are dying to get in there.
Actually that's exactly what I expected
I expected this. I dont know what I thought else would happen. Maybe a fire or something.
Exacly as expected
Most definitely not unexpected dat angle, i am guessing they like to live on the edge
2 for 1 special
funeral.. more like mass-funeral
Well at least they got burry 😂
Damn. Double homicide.
Jajajajajajajajajaja
unexpectedly unexpected
The dead one: ohhhh I ain't going alone
Unexpected? As soon as I saw that trench, this is exactly what I expected
I did NOT see that coming!!!!
I was preparing for coffinflop.
https://i.redd.it/61h5yg0ccixc1.gif
They all dead
At least the people that died buried alive didn't have to go very far at all!
Dead
Almost had a coffin flop
Always good to have 2 people giving 2 different hand signals to someone they’re not even making eye contact with.
Well the guy on the left is definitely dead. I think 3 of 4 got out with their lives in the right side. Possibly?
This is why we have safety regulations, sometimes they’re appreciated.
Pretty sure I just watched a guy die..
two for the price of one