Episode 253: Buried Alive
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The Undertakers and Funeral Directors Journal
In 1917, Tebb put in his own will that quote, unmistakable evidence of decomposition should be visible. This is a great association to disperse the book that we just talked about and also other books from other social reformers who were basically as paranoid and scared of premature burial as they were. There's also a publication that really fed into people's fears at the time called The Undertakers and Funeral Directors Journal. They had a story in it that goes a little something like this. Mrs Lockhart of Birk Hill, who died in 1825, used to relate to her grandchildren the following anecdote of her ancestor, Sir William Lindsay of Covington,. towards the close of
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