Do the Dead Get Pissed at Being Moved?

[Washoe]

@Sampiro

I actually take a friend with me gravehopping occasionally and we’ll dance in the cemetery, which is fun: our logic is that if there are spirits there then they only see people crying as they bury someone else or at very most they’ll see a groundskeeper (and many not even those), but they never see anybody dancing or having a good time, so it’s our public service to them.
If one ever asks to cut in I’ll stop.

When I was a kid I used to get high and drink beer on Al Jolson’s grave. I wonder if he’s gonna confront me about it later. :eek:

[Ethilrist]

Yeah, they hate it big-time. You read in the papers all the time about zombie uprisings following grave moves. Heck, time was when the graveyard was the quietest part of town, and people used to like to live next door. Now? You can’t give those properties away.

[Scumpup]

@An_Gadai

There’s a grave in my dad’s (and other ancestors’) graveyard with “NOT TO BE OPENED” written on it.

WAG is that may be due to the person buried there having died from some horrid and contagious disease.

[Jack_Batty]

@Omegaman

I’ve heard the dead know only one thing. It’s better to be alive.

Ok. It’s been 2 hours. This is killing me. What friggin’ movie is that from?

[Captain_Amazing]

@Scumpup

WAG is that may be due to the person buried there having died from some horrid and contagious disease.

Or it’s a vampire.

[Zsofia]

@Qadgop_the_Mercotan

Any cases of a dead person doing anything besides decaying slowly?

Tons! Lots of dead people decay quickly, for instance. And a whole lot of dead people get torn apart and eaten by animals, which is much more exciting.

[An_Gadai]

@Scumpup

WAG is that may be due to the person buried there having died from some horrid and contagious disease.

Perhaps, or just an eccentric family member. It is written in the cement that ceils the top of the plot, not on the gravestone itself. It looks like it was written with a stick and the lid off something for the Os. Our family Priest said he had never seen anything similar in any other graveyard he had visited throughout the country.

[An_Gadai]

@Jack_Batty

Ok. It’s been 2 hours. This is killing me. What friggin’ movie is that from?

Full Metal Jacket?

[Grumman]

Yeah, the dead hate leaving their graves. Even once you get them up and moving, they’re always dragging their feet.

[Jack_Batty]

@An_Gadai

Full Metal Jacket?

Yes. Of course! It came to me a little while ago and I just had to come and make sure. It was driving me nuts.

[Autolycus]

Native-American dead especially don’t like being moved. I reckon they’re still bitter about their land being taken the first time, do it a second time and they open a whole can of spectral whup-ass. Now if you excuse me, I have to get back to the conversation I was having with my TV.

[Sampiro]

How much should you tip dead-people movers?
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ETA: Forgot, this is SDMB. The answer’s nothing.*

[AK84]

I remember a story about an Egyptologist who found a group of three mummies, a parent (can’t remember which gender) and two children; a boy and a girl who had been laid to rest together. The parent was well preserved, the kiddos not so much, he decided to take the adult back to London, and leave the kiddies back. Apparently a week afterwards he started having nightmares in which the parent came to him rather annoyed! He was on the next ship to Alexandria and retrieved the kiddies. The parent was satisfied.