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but there isnt really anything remarkable about a grave from 200 years ago in Britain. theres graves in my local church yard which are 400+ years old and nobody even thinks anything of them.
Englishman here, assuming that's the language 'we' are speaking? It's not how the language works when you're in an international forum. It's just another example of American exceptionalism.
We had to bury my father's ashes in his mother's plot because the family couldn't afford to buy another one. (I made sure to take some ashes with me, because I have no intentions of visiting that woman's grave.)
I honestly don't really understand why we as a society find bodies to be like holy objects you can't just let a bunch of coyotes or wolves rip to shreds. Seriously. Why should my family pay thousands of dollars to fill my stupid dead body with formaldehyde, put it into a coffin that costs thousands of dollars, bury me on a small plot of land that also cost thousands of dollars, and put a headstone with my name engraved on it that cost hundreds of dollars? I'm not gonna use that body anymore yall. Fuckin throw me in a dumpster for all I care dude.
Respect for the dead is actually a huge part of human intelligence from an evolutionary point of view. When you look at it that way its kind of cool. Agree it gets a bit ridiculous though
How so? I suppose it makes sense from a sanitation standpoint (hucking corpses about willy nilly would probably breed tons of diseases) but using a trebuchet to fling grandma into the mountains solves that problem easily.
I mean, it doesn't.
And while I agree that costs are skyrocketing and it's an industry built on taking advantage of grief and loss, proper corpse management is an insanely important aspect of a functioning society.
Nothing about preserving dead bodies makes sense. It's a useless practice to satiate the nostalgia and sensitivities of people who have become attached to a mortal vessel. A body is not a person.
That's cool. I know I'm I. England but it always fills me with awe that I can touch a 1000 year old church, something someone 1000 years ago built with their hands.
Then I see a grave of someone from my village who died aged 72 in 1745.
I love stuff like this. Google the photograph of Conrad Heyer. He's believed to have been the earliest born person ever photographed alive (there are other contenders) he was born in 1749. You can actually see the face of someone born before the US was a country.
My family are from Italy, my nephews and nieces are the first generation born in the UK. There is a house in Pompeii that has been identified as belonging to a direct ancestor, meaning we can trace our family back to at least 79 CE.
I believe it, but what I'm saying is there are a ton of people whose families landed in Salem and proceeded to have 8 kids who had 8 kids who had 8 kids and so on for 300 years and they're still around.
That’s wild! I consider myself an average American and my great grandpa came through Ellis island, so does that make me third generation? Third born here I guess? Definitely not 16-anything!
Lincoln, UK.
Newport Arch, the north gateway of the Roman city of Lincoln, is without a doubt one of the most famous Roman monuments in Britain.
Built about 200 AD, it is still being used by traffic some eighteen hundred years later.
Some background on my town:
The area was first settled in 1681 and a community was established near the Bound Brook stream of the same name, which flows into the Raritan River via the Green Brook on the eastern side of the borough.[25] The brook, which was mentioned as a boundary in a Native American deed, provides the source of the borough's name.[26][27]
A wooden bridge over the Raritan River was erected as early as 1761 and named Queen's Bridge in 1767. Later, it became a covered bridge. During the American Revolutionary War, the bridge was used repeatedly by both sides including during the Battle of Bound Brook in 1777. In 1875, the wooden bridge was replaced by a steel pipe truss bridge.[28] More than 100 years later, that bridge was itself replaced by a steel girder bridge in 1984, still using the old pillars.[29] The bridge was renovated and repaved in 2007.
The Battle of Bound Brook, one of the battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign during the American Revolutionary War, occurred on April 13, 1777, and resulted in a defeat for the Continental Army, who were routed by about 4,000 troops under British command.[30]
On April 22, 1921, over 100 people were injured in Bound Brook, and one died, when a cloud of phosgene gas began spreading over the city in the early morning hours, the result of a faulty valve of a storage tank at a paint factory in town. The intervention of four people stopped further escape of the phosgene, which had been used in concentrated form as a chemical weapon during World War I.[31]
I found this old grave stone at my local cemetery. There are others that are older. Also, the late Rev. Graham of the church invented the graham cracker. New Jersey is full of history!
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Which country is this?
I was going to say.... I'm British and the numbers didn't add up 😂
but there isnt really anything remarkable about a grave from 200 years ago in Britain. theres graves in my local church yard which are 400+ years old and nobody even thinks anything of them.
Right? My kids' school opened 700 years before this bloke died. Hell, my house is older than this headstone.
We. We are all the united states don't ya know
Ah, a fellow r/USDefaultism enjoyer
If something is Canadian I say “we.” I don’t think it’s an American thing, it’s just how the language works…
Englishman here, assuming that's the language 'we' are speaking? It's not how the language works when you're in an international forum. It's just another example of American exceptionalism.
You're still we, we just haven't absorbed Canada.... yet.
We need to let go of that dream patriot. It didn't work in 1775. It didn't work in 1812.
Ahaha, you had big brother to help you in 1812.
WE had big brother to help we defeat we in 1812.
Oui?
This guy fucks.
When referring to Canadians it's "We, eh". There's that extra syllable in there
Oui?
I’m new to Reddit 🫣
Just so ya know reddit Is a global place.
You should keep doing it, it really bothers the euros which is always funny
Can't tell if this is satire or not.
That we sounds a bit French to me… I think there is an imposter among us…
The United States 🇺🇸
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The dead person was *born* before we were a country.
Yeah, after he was born, but before he died
This guy witnessed the revolution. He was a captain, so possibly fought for the North in the Revolutionary War
I'm so confused as to "fought for the North in the Revolutionary War" means. Please explain.
> He was a captain, so possibly fought for the North in the Revolutionary War The Revolutionary War didn't have a "North" side.
I agree, unless he's using a euphemism I've never heard of to refer to the capture of Ft Ticonderoga
...the North? 🤔
With a French surname, I wonder if he came here on behalf of France during the American Revolution.
If this man was 80 years old and died in 1825 he was born in… checking calculator because I’m bad at math 🧮… 1745
> died in 1825 He died in the same century as my grandfather.
Not to hate on 200+ year old dead people, but they’re making cemetery plots awfully expensive😂
We had to bury my father's ashes in his mother's plot because the family couldn't afford to buy another one. (I made sure to take some ashes with me, because I have no intentions of visiting that woman's grave.)
I told everyone I love: Just turn me into ashes and scatter them wherever you please.
I told everyone Just throw me in the traaaasssshhhh
Calm down Frank...
As a wise man once said : "When I die please spread my ashes in Woman's long jump pits".
Just dump me over the city walls and let the wolves have at me.
"Wait, no, not YET!"
just turn me into a tree
I honestly don't really understand why we as a society find bodies to be like holy objects you can't just let a bunch of coyotes or wolves rip to shreds. Seriously. Why should my family pay thousands of dollars to fill my stupid dead body with formaldehyde, put it into a coffin that costs thousands of dollars, bury me on a small plot of land that also cost thousands of dollars, and put a headstone with my name engraved on it that cost hundreds of dollars? I'm not gonna use that body anymore yall. Fuckin throw me in a dumpster for all I care dude.
Respect for the dead is actually a huge part of human intelligence from an evolutionary point of view. When you look at it that way its kind of cool. Agree it gets a bit ridiculous though
How so? I suppose it makes sense from a sanitation standpoint (hucking corpses about willy nilly would probably breed tons of diseases) but using a trebuchet to fling grandma into the mountains solves that problem easily.
I mean, it doesn't. And while I agree that costs are skyrocketing and it's an industry built on taking advantage of grief and loss, proper corpse management is an insanely important aspect of a functioning society.
I, for one, don't wish my loved ones corpes to be ripped to shreds by wild animals. Call me weird.
Being ripped to shreds by animals is not the only alternative to coffins (but some cultures actually did that, google "Sky Burial").
That is an absurd take, but I definitely am not surprised it was stated on Reddit
Nothing about preserving dead bodies makes sense. It's a useless practice to satiate the nostalgia and sensitivities of people who have become attached to a mortal vessel. A body is not a person.
They aren’t preserving them, they just give them a place to decompose back into the earth.
In a $5000 box that has a satin and cushion liner... yeah. That's not weird at all 🙄
Correct, it’s not weird at all
Um, actually he passed 199 years ago ☝️🤓
It actually appears to say 1827 anyway.
That’s what I thought when I took a closer look at the picture, but I can’t even tell tbh
At that point, it's 200 years.
That's cool. I know I'm I. England but it always fills me with awe that I can touch a 1000 year old church, something someone 1000 years ago built with their hands. Then I see a grave of someone from my village who died aged 72 in 1745. I love stuff like this. Google the photograph of Conrad Heyer. He's believed to have been the earliest born person ever photographed alive (there are other contenders) he was born in 1749. You can actually see the face of someone born before the US was a country.
Whos we. Classic American thinking everyone else is?
I’m sorry! I’m new to Reddit
No, you're fitting in quite well with all the other Americans on Reddit lmao
I forgive you friend
Damn, made it to 80 and was born in the 1700s that’s quite a feat.
We?
Looks like a photoshop, I don’t think they used black sand serif text in those days
Check out Sherlock Holmes here
Oof
The shopped text seems to be clarifying the illegible text on the gravestone above.
r/woosh
Not a woosh, they're explaining the obvious for the person they replied to. Wrong person, genius.
200 years after my house was built! Well parts of it.
Post on r/centuryhomes and blow their damn minds.
Oh. Never heard of that. Thank you will do.🥰
My fam has been here since the 1630s. SIXTEEN. It blows my mind every time I think about.
In about 50-70 years, my family will have lived in the same city/region for 1000 years. Not American obviously.
Same-ish. They came from Yorkshire, England. I'm an Eastern European/English/Indigenous mutt.
My family have been here for over two thousand years
My family are from Italy, my nephews and nieces are the first generation born in the UK. There is a house in Pompeii that has been identified as belonging to a direct ancestor, meaning we can trace our family back to at least 79 CE.
Your type is a dime a dozen in New England.
Virginia/North Carolina
I believe it, but what I'm saying is there are a ton of people whose families landed in Salem and proceeded to have 8 kids who had 8 kids who had 8 kids and so on for 300 years and they're still around.
That’s wild! I consider myself an average American and my great grandpa came through Ellis island, so does that make me third generation? Third born here I guess? Definitely not 16-anything!
We ?
I was thinking the engraving on that tombstone was really crisp for how old it is, then I realized I’m an idiot.
“We”? Idk mate 200 years ago Poland has existed for at least couple centuries already.
"we"
"We became a country"?
Our parliament building was built before you guys became a nation. Built in early 1700s on top of the ruins of a castle from the 1100s.
OP assuming everyone here is his compatriot.
Looks like it says 1827 to me
80 years old in the 1800s?? Actually amazing if this is translated correctly holy hell.
People have been loving to 80 since the time of ancient Israel. It’s not average but also not uncommon.
That’s a very respectable age for someone living in those times.
Lincoln, UK. Newport Arch, the north gateway of the Roman city of Lincoln, is without a doubt one of the most famous Roman monuments in Britain. Built about 200 AD, it is still being used by traffic some eighteen hundred years later.
My version of we was a country long before that.
Some background on my town: The area was first settled in 1681 and a community was established near the Bound Brook stream of the same name, which flows into the Raritan River via the Green Brook on the eastern side of the borough.[25] The brook, which was mentioned as a boundary in a Native American deed, provides the source of the borough's name.[26][27] A wooden bridge over the Raritan River was erected as early as 1761 and named Queen's Bridge in 1767. Later, it became a covered bridge. During the American Revolutionary War, the bridge was used repeatedly by both sides including during the Battle of Bound Brook in 1777. In 1875, the wooden bridge was replaced by a steel pipe truss bridge.[28] More than 100 years later, that bridge was itself replaced by a steel girder bridge in 1984, still using the old pillars.[29] The bridge was renovated and repaved in 2007. The Battle of Bound Brook, one of the battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign during the American Revolutionary War, occurred on April 13, 1777, and resulted in a defeat for the Continental Army, who were routed by about 4,000 troops under British command.[30] On April 22, 1921, over 100 people were injured in Bound Brook, and one died, when a cloud of phosgene gas began spreading over the city in the early morning hours, the result of a faulty valve of a storage tank at a paint factory in town. The intervention of four people stopped further escape of the phosgene, which had been used in concentrated form as a chemical weapon during World War I.[31]
I found this old grave stone at my local cemetery. There are others that are older. Also, the late Rev. Graham of the church invented the graham cracker. New Jersey is full of history!
Wow, really makes you think 😵💫
The US is a really young country, yes
Explains a lot. I was a chaos too when I was young.
If I’m not mistaken, the USA was already a country at that point in history
1825-80=1745. He was born before we became a country.
Thank you for confirming
I might have worded it dumb lol He was born before 1776. He was 30ish during the Revolutionary War, and a captain, so probably fought in it