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The ground rumbles. A dark wave bears down upon you. There is nowhere to run. You're in the Boston Molasses Flood. Support the production of these videos through our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath PRODUCTION CREDITS Writer & Host: Caitlin Doughty Writer: Louise Hung Editor: Timothy Meier Producer: Sarah Chavez Thumbnail: Landis Blair MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY Read My Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Face Your Mortality Course: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Podcast: https://apple.co/2yK6c6G Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath Selected Sources/Further Reading Puleo, Stephen Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 Beacon Press. January 15, 2019 "The Great Molasses Flood" https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2019/01/the-great-molasses-flood "100 Years Ago Today: Molasses Crashes Through Boston's North End" https://www.boston.gov/news/100-years-ago-today-molasses-crashes-through-bostons-north-end "The Great Molasses Flood of 1919" https://historiansforhistory.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/the-great-molasses-flood-of-1919-by-jessica-wadley/ "‘There was no escape from the wave’: These are the 21 victims of the Great Boston Molasses Flood" https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/victims-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919/ "‘Masses of wreckage’: The painstaking cleanup and tragic aftermath of Boston’s Great Molasses Flood" https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/14/great-molasses-flood-cleanup-aftermath/ "What people saw and felt in the first moments of Boston’s deadly Great Molasses Flood" https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/first-hand-accounts-great-boston-molasses-flood/ "The Science of the Great Molasses Flood" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
The Worst Fluid to Drown In
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Would you want an AI version of you speaking from beyond the grave? Support the production of these videos through our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath PRODUCTION CREDITS Writer & Host: Caitlin Doughty Editor: Timothy Meier Producer & Researcher: Sarah Chavez Thumbnail: Landis Blair MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY Read My Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Face Your Mortality Course: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Podcast: https://apple.co/2yK6c6G Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath
Watching AI Testimony at a Real Murder Trial
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In this episode of Open Door, we step inside the brutalist Moscow home of the corpse of Vladimir Lenin. Designed in collaboration with Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s space blends city living with a touch of mold and structural issues. With pops of red (socialism’s favorite color) and numerous homages to cult of personality, the great leader's home will make you wonder, "does he even want to be here?" Support our team and the production of these videos through PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY The Books I Wrote: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Course on Facing Your Death: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ The Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath PRODUCTION CREDITS Host & Writer: Caitlin Doughty (@thegooddeath) Research: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Andy Windak Production Coordinator: Sarah Chavez Outro Songs: performed by DARRENCORP (@darrencorp)
Is it Time to Bury Vladimir Lenin?
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It's the future of death, boys! Support our team and the production of these videos through PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY The Books I Wrote: http://caitlindoughty.com/books The Course I Created: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ The Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath PRODUCTION CREDITS Host & Writer: Caitlin Doughty (@thegooddeath) Researcher & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Andy Windak Production Coordinator: Sarah Chavez Outro Songs: performed by DARRENCORP (@darrencorp) SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING Troyer, John. Technologies of the Human Corpse. The MIT Press, 2020. Scandura, Jani. "Deadly Professions: 'Dracula,' Undertakers, and the Embalmed Corpse." Victorian Studies , Autumn, 1996, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 1-30. Indiana University Press. Podgorny, Irina. "Modern Embalming, Circulation of Fluids, and the Voyage through the Human Arterial System: Carl L. Barnes and the Culture of Immortality in America." Nuncius 26 (2011) 109–131 Barnes, Carl Lewis. The Art and Science of Embalming. Barnes School of Anatomy, Sanitary Science and Embalming, 1927. Randolph, Vance. Ozark Magic and Folklore. Dover Publications, 1964. Farrell, James J. Inventing the American Way of Death, 1830–1920. Temple University Press, 1980.
How the Corpse Became a Product
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Tahlequah carried her dead calf for thousands of miles. Many of us understood why. Support the production of these videos through our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath More information on the J-Pod and Southern Residents: https://www.whaleresearch.com/ PRODUCTION CREDITS Writer & Host: Caitlin Doughty Writer & Researcher: Louise Hung Editor: Timothy Meier Producer: Sarah Chavez Thumbnail: Landis Blair MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY Read My Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Face Your Mortality Course: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Podcast: https://apple.co/2yK6c6G Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath WAYS TO SUPPORT THE NONPROFIT Donate and become a member: https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/donate Advocacy Wear: https://the-order-of-the-good-death.myshopify.com/
The Death Rituals of a Grieving Mother Orca
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Was this a story of graverobbing or gravedepositing? Support our team and the production of these videos through PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY The Book I Wrote: http://caitlindoughty.com/books The Course I Created: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ The Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath PRODUCTION CREDITS Host & Writer: Caitlin Doughty (@thegooddeath) Researcher & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Andy Windak Production Coordinator: Sarah Chavez Outro Songs: performed by DARRENCORP (@darrencorp) SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm-Where the Dead Do Tell Tales Bass, Bill; Jefferson, Jon. Berkley Books, New York, 2003 "Bill Bass Wants Your Body" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/07/04/william-bass-wants-your-body/73b45d8e-c94e-453a-90d4-1ee945816ae8/ "What happens to bones from UT's famous 'Body Farm'? They're cleaned, boxed and studied" https://www.knoxnews.com/story/life/2018/11/14/university-tennessee-body-farm-william-bass-donated-skeletons-forensic-science-corpse-research/1918243002/ "The mystery of Col. William Shy’s burial in a cast iron casket" https://www.williamsonherald.com/features/w_life/the-mystery-of-col-william-shy-s-burial-in-a-cast-iron-casket/article_11504706-e487-11ed-947c-3b074a653e2d.html "Unearthing Stories for 20 Years at the ‘Body Farm’" https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/body-farm-20th-anniversary-032019 "If These Bones Could Talk: The Stories Human Skeletons Can Tell" https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/23/412923674/if-these-bones-could-talk-the-stories-human-skeletons-can-tell "BODY FARMS UNRAVEL MYSTERIES OF HUMAN DECOMPOSITION" https://themobmuseum.org/blog/body-farms-unravel-mysteries-of-human-decomposition/
Who Hid a Fresh Body in a Civil War Grave?
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The brutal sinking of the pleasure boat Marchioness was only the beginning for the families and friends of the victims.  Support the production of these videos through our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath Thank you to the @OceanlinerDesigns team (Jack Gibson, Liam Sharpe, and Michael Brady) for creating the animations of the accident. PRODUCTION CREDITS Writer & Host: Caitlin Doughty Writer & Researcher: Louise Hung  Editor: Timothy Meier Producer: Sarah Chavez Thumbnail: Landis Blair  MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY Read My Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Face Your Mortality Course: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Podcast: https://apple.co/2yK6c6G Spotify:  https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath WAYS TO SUPPORT THE NONPROFIT Donate and become a member: https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/donate Advocacy Wear Store: https://the-order-of-the-good-death.myshopify.com/ SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING Marchioness Inquiries https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2001-03-23/debates/e8424dd7-c246-442d-ac9d-0b298f9becfe/MarchionessInquiries "The Marchioness nightmare" https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/the-marchioness-nightmare-7285588.html Thames Safety Inquiry https://www.jesip.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Marchionness-Bowbelle-Incident-Thames-Safety-Inquiry.pdf "How to identify a body: the Marchioness disaster and my life in forensic pathology" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/18/how-to-identify-a-body-the-marchioness-disaster-and-my-life-in-forensic-pathology "Dredger captain says saving victims from Marchioness 'not top priority'" https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/04/jeevanvasagar "Sank in 30 Seconds: The Marchioness Disaster 1989" https://youtu.be/wwXKSVDRfoM?si=dMLP0Jjp6hLSxSst "Coroner review ordered after hands severed" https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/mar/24/jeevanvasagar "Marchioness victims had hands severed" https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/01/taniabranigan "Marchioness disaster: Thames historic vessels 'still not modernised'" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-49346082 "Tragedy on the Thames: 30 years on, remembering the Marchioness disaster" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/marchioness-disaster-victims-london-boat-crash-thames-bowbelle-a8953251.html
Did the Coroner Make this Disaster Worse?
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Oliver Cromwell lost his head but only after he died in his bed.  Support our team and the production of these videos through PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY I Wrote Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Face Your Mortality: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath PRODUCTION CREDITS Host & Writer: Caitlin Doughty (@thegooddeath) Researcher & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Andy Windak Production Coordinator: Sarah Chavez Thumbnail: Landis Blair (@LandisBlair) Outro Songs: performed by DARRENCORP (@darrencorp) SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING Fitzgibbons, Jonathan. CROMWELL'S HEAD. Bloomsbury Academic, 2008.  "Cromwell's Death and Funeral Order" https://www.british-history.ac.uk/burton-diaries/vol2/pp516-530 "The Trial of Charles I" https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trial-charles-i/ "The Execution of Charles I" https://www.hrp.org.uk/banqueting-house/history-and-stories/the-execution-of-charles-i/#gs.eckadk "Cromwell's Dust" https://erenow.org/biographies/cromwellourchiefofmen/27.php "Cromwell's Body" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/cromwells-body/ "What happened to Cromwell's body after his death?" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/what-happened-to-cromwell-after-his-death/ "Cromwell in Ireland" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/ireland/ "The Strange Saga of Oliver Cromwell's Head" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585591/oliver-cromwells-head-history "Flagellum, or, The life and death, birth and burial of Oliver Cromwel faithfully described in an exact account of his policies and successes, not heretofore published or discovered / by S.T., Gent." https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A43211.0001.001/1:4?rgn=div1;view=fulltext "George Bate–Cromwell's Devious Physician" https://www.reformation.org/dr-george-bate.html "Oliver Cromwell and Family" https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/oliver-cromwell-and-family/
What Did Cromwell Do to Deserve This?
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A Civil War submarine powered by hand cranks and lit by candlelight. What could possibly go wrong? Meet the HL Hunley.  Support the production of these videos through our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath Thank you to Nick DeLong from Clemson University and Kellen Butler from Friends of the Hunley at Warren Lasch Conservation Center. PRODUCTION CREDITS Writer & Host: Caitlin Doughty Writer & Researcher: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Timothy Meier Producer: Sarah Chavez Thumbnail: Landis Blair (@LandisBlair) MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY Read My Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Face Your Mortality Course: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Podcast: https://apple.co/2yK6c6G Spotify:  https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordergooddeath/ WAYS TO SUPPORT THE NONPROFIT Donate and become a member: https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/donate Advocacy Wear Store: https://the-order-of-the-good-death.myshopify.com/ SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING Chaffin, Tom.The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy Hill and Wang, 2010. Hicks, Brian. Sea of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley Spry Publishing LLC, 2015.  Hicks, Brian, and Kropf, Schuyler. Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate SubmarinePresidio Press, 2003 Lance, Rachel. In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine. Dutton, 2020 The Friends of the Hunley https://www.hunley.org/ "H. L. Hunley: Recovery Operations "https://www.history.navy.mil/research/underwater-archaeology/sites-and-projects/ship-wrecksites/hl-hunley/recovery-report.html "H.L. Hunley Site Assessment "https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/maritime/hunley.pdf "Humanitarian Exhumation at the Citadel's Johnson Hagood Stadium" https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1091&context=sciaa_staffpub "HUNLEY (C.S.S)"https://numa.net/expeditions/hunley-c-s-s/ "Crewmen of Recovered Confederate Sub Are Honored at Burial" https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/national/crewmen-of-recovered-confederate-sub-are-honored-at-burial.html "Putting a Face on Storied Subs Crew" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2004/04/17/putting-a-face-on-storied-subs-crew/516a24dd-e157-49fa-a601-2d1dc7571daa/
This Civil War Submarine Vanished for 136 Years
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I love it when we're cruising together (until my husband of 55 years dies and the cruise company puts him in a drinks cooler.) Support our team and the production of these videos through PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY Read My Death Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Face Your Mortality: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordergooddeath/ PRODUCTION CREDITS Host and Writer: Caitlin Doughty (@thegooddeath) Editor: Timothy Meier Production Coordinator: Sarah Chavez Thumbnail: Landis Blair (@LandisBlair) Thank you to Tanya Marsh and Paul Koudounaris for your assistance. SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION MARILYN JONES, et al Plaintiffs v. CELEBRITY CRUISES, INC., A FOREIGN PROFIT CORPORATION, Defendant. Bluebook 21st ed. Tentative Draft No. 2 1 (March 2023) Sepulcher (Interference with Human Remains) The American Law Institute Death at Sea: Passenger and Crew Mortality on Cruise Ships https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/45cb/ae8cf0a4fbfdb3212c2c27b8c2cfec570a41.pdf Peru Man Found With 800-Year-Old Mummy In Bag https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/around-800-years-old-mummy-found-in-mans-bag-in-peru-3823286
Cruise Ship Accused of Keeping Dead Body in Beverage Cooler
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