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450. How to Be Better at Death

Freakonomics Radio

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Funerals - The Secret Weapon, Super Liquid Magic

Funeral homes charge anywhere from a hundred seventy five to five hundred dollars for setting the features. If all of these tricks failed and the eyes or mouth still insisted on falling open, there was always the secret weapon, super glue. Dodi writes vividly about the reality of the dead body. What she sees is not what we see when we look into an open casket....

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