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It’s Thursday and boy oh boy have we got a show for you today. This week Spencer teaches us how to get ready for a burial, and then Madison tells us how we can memorialize that forever with a death mask! We’ve got a range of obituaries from sweet to scientific, and of course, we’ve got, some dumb.ass.criminalsssssss.
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Sources:
https://work.chron.com/average-pay-mortuary-makeup-artist-17793.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Ruysch
https://bartonfuneral.com/funeral-basics/history-of-embalming/
https://www.businessinsider.com/a-mortician-reveals-what-its-like-to-work-at-the-morgue-2013-2
https://www.joincake.com/blog/how-do-funeral-homes-dress-bodies/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/death-mask
https://www.grunge.com/240887/the-crazy-true-history-of-death-masks/?utm_campaign=clip
https://www.biography.com/news/famous-death-masks
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/death-masks/index.html
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/phrenology-the-pseudoscience-of-skull-shapes
http://www.theterrestrial.com/interview/nick-reynolds/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/28/bruce-reynolds
https://historycollection.com/unmasking-the-dead-10-eerie-and-infamous-death-masks/10/
https://www.joincake.com/blog/death-mask/
https://historycollection.com/queen-death-masks-madame-tussaud-narrowly-escaped-death-morbid-bargain/2/
https://medium.com/omgfacts/death-masks-the-heirloom-nobody-asked-for-61a6382d2b2
https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Bloody-History-of-Madame-Tussauds-Wax-Museums
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-loescher-says-hes-half-orangutan_n_1290576
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