
Buried Alive
30 Morbid Minutes
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Detection and Confirmation of Death
The stethoscope, in its original most rudimentary design, a wooden tube, wasn't invented until 18 16 in france. Diagnostic technology, becten, was not very sophisticated. Doctors still use outdated techniques from centuries before to confirm the status of death. Putrefaction is the stage of decay and decomposition. This generally starts to happen when a body is a couple days post mortem. There would be hushdina buried alive, tiktok, and my it would be e whole thing. And it sounds silly now, but identifying and confirming death was a big challenge at time.
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