#MondayMourning: Louise the Unfortunate
No one knows Louise's real story. Legend has it that she traveled to Natchez sometime after the Civil War in search of her fiancé. For reasons unknown, she found herself stranded and husbandless.
Too proud to return home, she became a seamstress, maid, then "woman of the night." After dying in her mid-20s, a mysterious benefactor paid for her funeral and this headstone, more than what most paupers received.
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18.7.2023 01:21#MondayMourning: Louise the Unfortunate No one knows Louise's real story. Legend has it that she traveled to Natchez sometime after the...Follow me for more funeral hacks 👍🏻
(but seriously, I can help you think of ways to personalize funeral services)
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16.7.2023 17:12Follow me for more funeral hacks 👍🏻(but seriously, I can help you think of ways to personalize funeral services)#HisAndHearsePress...#WordyWednesday: Bleb
(used in a mortuary context)
A blister on a dead body, filled with stinky liquid, which usually turns into an area of skin slip (moist peeling skin) after it's been drained. Not fun at all.
#HisAndHearsePress #Embalming #Embalmer #DeadBody #MortuaryScience #Bleb #Blister #Gross #Ew #Stinky #Vocabulary #WordOfTheDay
13.7.2023 03:25#WordyWednesday: Bleb(used in a mortuary context)A blister on a dead body, filled with stinky liquid, which usually turns into an area of...As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo DaVinci
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11.7.2023 22:50As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo DaVinci #HisAndHearsePress #Quote #QuoteOfTheDay...#MondayMourning: It’s YOUR Grief
Grief is a very individual experience. There are so many factors that affect it, like your personality, support network, beliefs, previous losses, and the security you feel in other aspects of your life (financial, housing, relationships, work).
Don't use the grief experiences of others as a gauge for your own. Grieve in the way that feels comfortable to you, and don't worry if others think you're doing it too much or too little.
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10.7.2023 23:46#MondayMourning: It’s YOUR GriefGrief is a very individual experience. There are so many factors that affect it, like your personality,...It’s July 5th! Do you know what that means???
It’s basically Halloween now! 🎃
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5.7.2023 23:32It’s July 5th! Do you know what that means???It’s basically Halloween now! 🎃#HisAndHearsePress #July5th #ItsPracticallyHalloween...That it will never come again
is what makes life so sweet
- Emily Dickinson
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5.7.2023 18:42That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet- Emily Dickinson#HisAndHearsePress #Quotes #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotesToLiveBy...Graphic x ray images of hands with fireworks injuries
Don’t be dumb with fireworks, okay? 💥🤕💥
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5.7.2023 00:22Graphic x ray images of hands with fireworks injuriesDon’t be dumb with fireworks, okay? 💥🤕💥#HisAndHearsePress #Happy4thOfJuly...Patriotic Passings: Did you know? Three of the founding fathers managed to die *on* the 4th of July! 🇺🇸
Thomas Jefferson - 1826
John Adams - 1826
James Monroe - 1831
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4.7.2023 19:19Patriotic Passings: Did you know? Three of the founding fathers managed to die *on* the 4th of July! 🇺🇸 Thomas Jefferson - 1826John...Happy 4th of July! Do your local mortician a favor and party responsibly. We can wait.
Fun fact: Uber surge pricing is cheaper than a funeral. Make plans to avoid driving drunk.
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4.7.2023 17:11Happy 4th of July! Do your local mortician a favor and party responsibly. We can wait. Fun fact: Uber surge pricing is cheaper than a...What soap is for the body,
Tears are for the soul
- Jewish Proverb
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3.7.2023 04:13What soap is for the body,Tears are for the soul - Jewish Proverb#HisAndHearsePress #Proverb #JewishProverbs #Quotes #Grief #GriefQuotes...Well… they’re *not* wrong 🤷🏻♀️
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📸: Kayla Faustus or…?
3.7.2023 00:53Well… they’re *not* wrong 🤷🏻♀️ #HisAndHearsePress #Cemetery #Headstone #Gravestone #IncorrectSignage #Funeral #Mortuary...I accidentally discovered a newly opened indie bookstore close to home! I bought two books that ought to be useful for future projects (wink wink).
Happy Opening, Sunken City Books!
Reader, YOU can support this store from a distance through www.Bookshop.org
My book haul:
Rough Medicine: Surgeons At Sea in the Age of Sail, by Joan Druett
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life, by Ruth Goodman
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1.7.2023 04:35I accidentally discovered a newly opened indie bookstore close to home! I bought two books that ought to be useful for future projects (wink...#FuneralFactFriday: Hell Money
The colloquial name for a form of Joss paper (incense paper), printed to resemble legal tender bank notes.
Rooted in Asian culture, the fake currency is burned as an offering to the deceased in hopes of prosperity in the afterlife. Loose bundles are often placed inside caskets prior to cremation.
In this context, Hell represents the afterlife in general and does not have the unpleasant connotation that Western culture associates with it.
#HisAndHearsePress #FuneralCustoms #Funeral #MortuaryScience #Joss #JossPaper #HellMoney #HellBankNote #AsianTradition #Afterlife #Burial #Cremation #Incense #FunFacts
30.6.2023 22:44#FuneralFactFriday: Hell MoneyThe colloquial name for a form of Joss paper (incense paper), printed to resemble legal tender bank notes....Don’t go to the funeral until the day of the funeral.
Live this day.
- Valerie Harper
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29.6.2023 23:30Don’t go to the funeral until the day of the funeral. Live this day. - Valerie Harper#HisAndHearsePress #Quote #QuoteOfTheDay #LiveLife...People: "I hope I go to heaven after I die"
Me: "I hope the most diverse little ecosystem grows from the soil of my decomposed body - just the coolest plants, fungi, little insects, birds, animals, microbes just thriving on my remains…”
Words: @wokescientist
Artist: @emossillustrates
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28.6.2023 23:04People: "I hope I go to heaven after I die"Me: "I hope the most diverse little ecosystem grows from the soil of my decomposed...#WordyWednesday: Ptomaine 💨🤢🤮
Pronounced: toe-MAIN.
The unholy gang of nitrogenous stink compounds responsible for the indescribable stench of decomposing bodies. Found in decaying vegetable and animal matter and formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
Includes cadaverine and putrescine (the smell of putrefying flesh or rotting fish), indole (smells like mothballs), and skatole (smells like poop).
Other chemical compounds produce smells akin to rotting cabbage, nasty garlic, and rotten eggs. Ptomaine was originally thought to cause food poisoning but has been disproven.
Raise your hand if you've had this smell cling to your nose hairs after a long day at work! Semi-related, death workers deserve a raise.
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28.6.2023 17:04#WordyWednesday: Ptomaine 💨🤢🤮Pronounced: toe-MAIN.The unholy gang of nitrogenous stink compounds responsible for the indescribable...Cat shenanigans, featuring Cleocatra and her hapless brother, Arfurr Conan Spoiled.
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27.6.2023 23:25Cat shenanigans, featuring Cleocatra and her hapless brother, Arfurr Conan Spoiled. #HisAndHearsePress #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon...Not feeling like it’s a day to celebrate? It’s okay to be sad, angry, jealous, disappointed, or a mix of multiple emotions.
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18.6.2023 22:52Not feeling like it’s a day to celebrate? It’s okay to be sad, angry, jealous, disappointed, or a mix of multiple emotions....Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, papas, uncles, grandpas, stepdads, adoptive dads, mentors, and father figures!
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18.6.2023 22:33Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, papas, uncles, grandpas, stepdads, adoptive dads, mentors, and father figures! #HisAndHearsePress...