Signs of Death

Historians think that when the british forces hired german mercenaries during the american revolution, those hired soldiers brought german physicians with them. It was his opinion that death was like an invisible pair of scissors cutting the connection between the body and the soul. The solution he proposed was known as therapeutic exhumation. If a town suffered from a plague of illness with no logical cause, stall recommended exhuming the earliest victims, cutting out the hearts and burning them to release the soul. Other tests for death were a bit more violent. One german doctor invented a device that literally electrocuted the face of the patient in question.