I Love the Idea of Requesting Your Bones Be Turned Into Glass

Catacombs in Paris had their last transfer of bones from from Perlesha's cemetery in 1930 or 1933 thereabouts. In that weird period between closing down the big cemetery and opening up new cemeteries which Perlesha cemetery were like Jim Orson Oscar wilder buried is what ends up being built in that gap between the old and the new. There was this one guy who asked that his bones be turned into glass so yeah how does that work gosh I don't want to take up too much of your time here but no bring it on.

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