The importance of bodies—and control thereover—has been recognized much longer and holds more sway than you would think. Habeus corpus (lit. “you shall have the body”) is a foundational concept of many legal systems, and is intended to guard against the physical detainment of a (living) body without just cause. But even dead bodies have […]
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Before death certificates were a thing, people tried to preserve bodies as proof of death. Evidence suggests that this was practiced in Europe at least from the 6th century AD to help with questions of royal succession. Interestingly, the first step in preserving a body is to remove its organs (particularly the entrails, as these
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This snack was first posted on the Scisnack website on 21 April 2024. (Re)moving the dead Death is very quickly followed by movement (or re-movement) of the remains. Swedish author Knausgaard poetically describes this urge: “the way we remove bodies has never been a subject of debate; it has always been just something we have
