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The Graveyard

The Graveyard

The patient cemetery was laid out in a bleak, brown field near the hospital. A relatively new memorial listed the patient names next to their numbers in a small grove of trees in the center, yet many of the headstones remain in poor shape.
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This is amazing. I love the old looking quality of this. It looks like a still out of an old movie
Depressing.... RIP.
how sad. bless their souls.
So sad.......... god bless them all !
Very nice, melancholy photo.
I agree, melancholy is the word; also it looks like a very old photo. Good work!
hmmm...Reminds me of a story I wrote. Anyways I loves this shot. I have a thing for grave yards espacialy the scary old kind :)
so sad that these people had lives and now they are just numbers. Rest in Peace
Funny its a psychiatric hospital, to deal with mental problems, yet so many people lost their lives.. wasn't like their mental health impedes their physical health. Unless the description was off and their is also something medical/surgical. Really intense photo either way.
People with severe psychiatric disorders have a significantly higher mortality rate than people who don't.
May they RIP. What a shot. What a place.
Outstanding photo, Motts!!!
I'm amazed at the vast numbers of tombstones there. It's sad they only have numbers and no names on them.
what an awesome pic. I'm thinking wallpaper?
is this an infrared shot?
There are far more than I would have expected...wow.
if you read motts description it said most of the stones have patient names and numbers and they get a thomb stone not a little field stone that is covered by grass and nobady can find it in a couple of months if the grass isn't cut.
"People with severe psychiatric disorders have a significantly higher mortality rate than people who don't."
All the infection that comes from living in relatively close quarters doesn't help, either.
The high mortality rate is the same for people with psychiatric disabilities who do not live in residential facilities. Increased incidence of cardiovascular disease is the primary cause.

"Cardiovascular disease risk factors were generally similar for patients with schizophrenia and patients with bipolar disorder . . . Both groups of patients had a higher prevalence of overweight, obesity, central obesity, and hypertension than the general population . . . and daily smoking was significantly more frequent in the two patient groups than in the general population."

Astrid Brate Birkenaes, J Clin Psychiatry, 2007;68:917-923.
Wow. Didn't expect there to be that many, either. Eerie shot.
Oh I say we have a picnic, I'll bring some tea!
Motts, this is breathtaking.
wow... so many of them... it's very sad
They're coming for you Barbara.
WOW!!!! That is amazing!
Has no one seen that ghost that's slightly to the left near the first row of the headstones?

Because that was the first thing I saw. It looks like a woman.
how sad to go through life and end up in a grave yard as a number, it is to bad no one will remember their names
I will re-iterate the statement below the photo; there was a memorial that listed each patient's name next to their number...
I see there a person, on the left.
Motts , was there someone when you did the shot?
Stark


Suppose it could be worse ; i.e.; institution for the criminally insane.
I understood there is a memorial with numbers and names but the last (only) place they will rest is under a number not their name
It cant be a ghost, Motts scares them off. I could honestly see him yelling at a ghost for getting in a pic..."Hey your ruining the pic!" LOL!

But at least a good number of them were buried and more than likely had a proper funeral. If no one on the outside cared enough to pick up their body, what they had here was decent. The could have all been cremated. In my opinion, better to have a number and then people like us come around and wonder about them, than to have nothing and be forgotten completely.
I'm curious about the figure in the pic...Mr. Motts, was there some sort of post or something there that could be interpreted as a "person"?
I looked at the original photo - it's a grave marker (most likely metal), #889 or somewhere around there...
It's so old looking, quite vintage in its bleakness...
I agree completely with Kristiara.
thats a ghost, no other explanation look you can see hair eyes cloths arms and a leg, friggin creepy!!!!
Gives heartbreaking new meaning to being just a "number." Thank you for honoring these patients with your photo....
Wow... I am sure a lot of those graves belong to patients that killed themselves. How selfish of the families for abondoning their mentally ill family members and not picking them up to be buried by their family. I guess that was the way of the world then. I hope they found their peace finally. But if there are ghosts maybe they have not yet! Poor souls.
beautiful pic. sad subject
It has to be a ghost. It just has to be.
It's quite eerie that som many patients died and where buried on those grounds. Would make for a good story setting.
Holy sh!t !!! That's a lot of dead patients.
Nice shot Motts....may they all RIP.....
This reminds me of the same sort of grave yard where the soilders are buried in [that are unknown, and whatnot?]. Such neatly lined up.

Died fighting, and yet no awards given here.
For some reason the way they're all in rows is a little scary. How sad...RIP.
So many unknow people and each of them held a life story...
could this be in conn.
This looks like it could be a wallpaper....hmm..
Not like Harrisburg, they've got the patients cremated in what can only be described as old paint cans, lined in an office

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