Cremated Alive We fire up the retort as we look at the third of a terrifying triumvirate of Victorian death-fears: being embalmed alive, dissected alive, and cremated alive.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 3, 2018
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged 19th-century cremation , cremated alive , cremation , premature burial , premature cremation , Victorian cremation
Ashes a la carte Ashes of the dead eaten by the living.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 6, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , Mourning Customs and History , News , Strange Lives , vampires , Victorian
and tagged Ashes à la carte , brushing teeth with human ashes , cremains , cremation , eating human ashes , human ashes , Mark Twain , Matilda Francefort , mistakes with human ashes