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Considering how anti-vaxxers managed to bring back diseases that we once thought virtually extinct, I wouldn't be so sure about letting people keep corpses in t
by kijin 11y ago
Considering how anti-vaxxers managed to bring back diseases that we once thought virtually extinct, I wouldn't be so sure about letting people keep corpses in their living room without some sort of professional supervision.
Public health in developed countries doesn't simply maintain itself. It's easy to take it for granted and not realize how much work CDC is doing to keep us all blissfully complacent.
- shiggerino 11y agoSure, but unwarranted fear of dead bodies isn't good either. Not even many infectious diseases remain infectious, since dead people can't cough or sneeze. And there's no such thing as miasma either. Here's a good explanation from a mortician: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw7bsNKsABQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw7bsNKsABQ