Okay, so did you ever know there was such a thing called a ‘Waiting Mortuary’?  It’s exactly as the name implies….when you died, they’d take your body to this place where you’d sit (or rather lay…sitting might be creepy)…anyhooo you’d lay there for several W E E K S before being buried…all to make ‘sure’ you were dead.  lol.  Family members would come and visit you…. and there was also a worker there who would sit with the bodies all day.  And all night.   ((queue the spooky music))

Apparently this was big in the late 1800′s / early 1900′s in Germany but there were Waiting Mortuaries everywhere.   So imagine laying around….with a string tied to your finger…then strung up onto a beam with a bell on the other end.  If you woke up or flinched  (i.e. not really dead) the string would move, the bell would ring and yea…you wouldn’t be accidentally buried alive!

How would you like to have that job?  Sitting with corpses day in and day out waiting for a bell to ring.  And bells DID ring.  Because bodies settle and gases form and build up in a dead body…and when that happens…parts…well, they move.  Just because they ‘do’…but not because you’re not dead.    Once you started to decompose and it was visible…this was a sure sign that you were, in fact…dead.  Swimmin with the fishes…Finito…Had bitten the dust. 

FYI, there is not one documented case that anyone every was ‘not dead’…no one ever came back to life…or wasn’t dead.  Or, whatever, you know what I mean.    For more indepth thoughts on where a mind goes when the body dies (a VERY cool experiment), and my thoughts on near death experiences, read my post at …..finding sheila

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