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Episode 253: Buried Alive

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How to Determine if Death Occurred in a Minute

An attendant would use silver nitrate to brush the words I am dead in silver nitrate on a on a pane of glass placed over the coffin. Then the words would stay invisible until the gases from the decomposing body would suddenly make I am dead show up on the fucking coffin. This didn't work a lot because people just weren't up on what was coming up.

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