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

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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.

Let’s get spooky. Venture below Parisian streets and into the catacombs: hundreds of miles of subterranean tunnels housing millions of human skeletons, some fashioned into sculpture. Alie tracked down Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey – author of “Making Space for the Dead,” professor of French history and one of the world’s foremost experts on this eerie place. We chat about everything from miasmas to sinkholes, boggling cemetery history, smells, skulls, hidden chambers, (very) underground parties, and how we view our bodies post-life. Also: Alie takes a trip to see them herself.

Dr. Legacy’s book, “Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830” on Bookshop.org and Amazon

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