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I 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 m

I 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 ago
I 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 ago
  If 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 ago
I 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 ago
The proliferation of gory horror movies tends to prove the contrary.
- lgeorget 4y ago
  I think there's a difference between watching through a screen what it known to be fiction and going to see with your own eyes the remains of a murdered child as described in the article.
  - tmilard 4y ago
    Statistics show women read enormous amounts of crime and murder stories. Fascination for death has always existed in a way or another. What is rather new is the fact that we can identify to suffuring more quickly. We can "identify to it" more easily, and I do believe it is for the good.
throw_m239339 4y ago
Well one can still visit the catacombs to satisfy their morbid curiosity https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/70448/did-you-know-6-million-skeletons-lie-in-the-catacombs-of-paris https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/...
- tmilard 4y ago
  Here is a good visual introduction to the Paris Catacombs . https://youtu.be/la4roWgqriA https://youtu.be/la4roWgqriA As for me as a Parisian I'll probably meet you there in a few decade. Ah ah !
woleium 4y ago
Still alive today. Gunther von whatsisname's plastination and dissection traveling show fro example.

255kb 4y ago

I 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 ago
If 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 ago

I 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 ago

The proliferation of gory horror movies tends to prove the contrary.

lgeorget 4y ago
I think there's a difference between watching through a screen what it known to be fiction and going to see with your own eyes the remains of a murdered child as described in the article.
- tmilard 4y ago
  Statistics show women read enormous amounts of crime and murder stories. Fascination for death has always existed in a way or another. What is rather new is the fact that we can identify to suffuring more quickly. We can "identify to it" more easily, and I do believe it is for the good.

throw_m239339 4y ago

Well one can still visit the catacombs to satisfy their morbid curiosity https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/70448/did-you-know-6-million-skeletons-lie-in-the-catacombs-of-paris https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/...

tmilard 4y ago
Here is a good visual introduction to the Paris Catacombs . https://youtu.be/la4roWgqriA https://youtu.be/la4roWgqriA As for me as a Parisian I'll probably meet you there in a few decade. Ah ah !

woleium 4y ago

Still alive today. Gunther von whatsisname's plastination and dissection traveling show fro example.