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Episode: 3189
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Title: HPR3189: How the Dutch dig Graves
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3189/hpr3189.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 18:28:15
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3189 for Thursday 22 October 2020. Today's show is entitled
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How the Dutch Dig graves. It is hosted by Ken Farlund,
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and is about three minutes long
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and carries an explicit flag. The summary is,
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Ken explains how they dig graves when the ground is essentially sand.
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Music
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Hi everybody my name is Ken Farlund and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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Today we're in the graveyard doing our mandatory walk during lockdown.
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And I wanted to talk to you about how graves are dug in the Netherlands.
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Probably a gloomy show, but an interesting part of the geography of the Netherlands
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is that there is a distinct lack of anything but sand.
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So it's a river delta, the country, so everything is basically sand.
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And if you're digging a grave six feet down or the equivalent I guess two meters
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that you would have collapses in on itself.
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So what to do in the graveyard here is the first dig down about a meter,
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three foot, and then they put a frame around the outside
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of the grave and then inside of that there's another telescoping frame
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that descends down the next three meters, essentially showing the whole thing up.
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Then at the top they have a middle grid that goes over the grave
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to prevent people from falling into it.
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The sand itself is kept here on the path and presumably will be pushed back in
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when somebody is buried.
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We've been out a few grave funerals here.
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I'm here with my wife, say hi.
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Hi.
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We've been out a few funerals here, thankfully not too many.
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And I think traditionally, in Ireland traditionally you would put the person in the ground
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and then it's considered an honor for everybody to pick up some shovelful of soil
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and put it back into the grave.
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But obviously that's not going to work here.
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So I think they cover it with green and just leave the grave there
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and then the mourners go away and then the undertakers basically repeat the process here.
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But they have to tuck in the sand in around the casket to prevent subsidence.
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So I'll take a few pictures and put these in the show notes.
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Probably a morbid episode but not really it's part of life here.
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And also we live right beside the grave yard.
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So it's a nice place to come and have a quiet walk without disturbing anybody.
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Tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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