Is She Still There?

In the 1800s, people might have held a mirror to their mother's mouth to see if there was any kind of breath coming off er, any condensation. If this didn't move, then people would say, well, you must be dead. But that's way before the invention of the stethoscope. You're just either putting your ear on it, feeling somebody's chest, feeling, you know, pressure points where you can feel the heart beat. I don't want to like it.