Episode 253: Buried Alive
Morbid
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The History of Safety Coffins
The trays were zinc and filled with antiseptic. They would also pump steam into the room to hasten the decomposition process so they could like quickly see if they were really dead. The smell, yeah, the smell. If y'all are straight up dead, it's about to stink up in there. And then like you think like the bugs that start to come, that's super interesting though because they would cover the perimeter of the trays with fresh and fragrant flowers. This is said to be where the tradition of putting flowers at the graves of dead people and also bringing them to funerals came from.
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