In a Munich Dead-House an 1890s visitor finds grim and grewsome sites, as well as German order and efficiency.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 25, 2016
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged In a Munich Dead-House , leichenhauser , Little Journeys to the Great Morgues of Europe , morgues , Munich dead house , Munich deadhouse , waiting mortuaries
A frigid visit to the morgue at the Great St Bernard Hospice in the Pennine Alps.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 3, 2015
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Alps , death tourism , morgues , Pennine Alps , rescue dogs , St Bernard dogs , St Bernard Hospice , St Bernard monastery , Swiss Alps
Know When to Hold ’em: Waiting Mortuaries in Connecticut? An account of a proposal from Bridgeport, Connecticut, for an organization that would hold the bodies of the dead until they showed unmistakable signs of decomposition–in the interest of preventing burial alive.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 2, 2014
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths
and tagged burial alive , buried alive , Know When to Hold 'em: Waiting Mortuaries in Connecticut? , morgues , premature interment , waiting mortuaries