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Death as entertainment at the Paris Morgue
- cvccvroomvroom 4y agoWow, that's disrespectful. It gives me a different perspective on the catacomb's ossuary, which is a very cool tourist attraction but at least not demeaning to a complete body. At the exit, there is an honor system return bag for people to deposit bones they stole as souvenirs. If you could imagine your femur would be stolen by a future tourist.
- tmilard 4y agoI am a Parisian. In 1889, at the time the Berlin wall collapsed, as a 20 years your man,I had the chance to meet a cool guys who had the paper map of the "non official" catacombes. Fuck boy, let's go men ! We started at midnight after a few beers in a poor Paris area ( Denfert Rochereau). The entrance of the "unofficial katacombes" was an o small manhole next to an abandonned train track. We had to run into to avoid the "catacombes police". Once inside boy: kilometers of corridors, sometimes mostly dry, sometimes half floaded. I tell you water is cold. After 90 minutes of walk, we arrived at the "pinacle of the night". It was these bones cathédrales or corridors. We would walk into "à Quatre pâtes" on thousand of bones carefully packed. Terrifying but so exciting for a young guy like me. Fuck what a night ! We got out , with a tibia as a souvenir, my sister doing dentist studies at the time took back a full scull with many teeth, Wich apparently was necessary to practice at University. All this to say that the Paris morgue entertainment show does surprise me but I can understand. Death was so commun, so 'normal'. Today we are also a bit extremist in a way. Perhaps
- lgeorget 4y agoI wonder when the fascination for the dead left place to our modern sense of body sacredness. Is it our because of WW1 which killed so many young men and left many mutiled, or the Spanish flu afterwards, or because modern medicine taught us a thing or two about hygiene?
- 255kb 4y agoI think it never left. There are many occurences of corspes dissection for fun and profit: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/man-dissected-autopsy-consent.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/man-dissected-autopsy-...
- criddell 4y agoIf you want to dissect a corpse, all you need is $60 and five hours: https://alok.github.io/2022/11/09/dissection/ https://alok.github.io/2022/11/09/dissection/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551036
- iLoveOncall 4y agoI feel like instead of being about fascination for the dead it was more about absolute boredom due to the lack of entertainment that the life back then provided.
- cm2187 4y agoThe proliferation of gory horror movies tends to prove the contrary.
- totetsu 4y agoSo the "real dead bodies" side of the "why do people want to look at this stuff" internet has a history!
- cassepipe 4y ago""4) Why do crows gather around their dead? Certainly one reason is that the death of a crow can offer a “teachable moment” that other crows use to learn that the place and responsible party is dangerous. You can read more about this behavior here."" https://corvidresearch.blog/2015/09/26/why-crows-gather-around-their-dead/ https://corvidresearch.blog/2015/09/26/why-crows-gather-arou...