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That’s Another Few For The Fire

The dead have quit rotting in German cemeteries — they are turning into wax-like corpses … Corpses are no longer decaying … Instead, the deceased become waxen, an uncanny process that has become so rampant it can no longer be ignored … As time passes, the remains of the departed coagulate to form “a hard, durable substance.” When knocked with a spade, the wax-like bodies sound hollow … Germany recycles cemetery plots after a period of 15 to 25 years. Experience has shown that the earthly remains of the deceased rot away almost entirely in this amount of time, but only under favorable soil conditions.

Tags: cemeteries, corpses, Germany by mike
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