• branch@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This was kinda creepy. At least when you imagine that they believed this could happen.

    He was sentenced to death and also to be dissected thereafter. This sentence was designed not only to provide medicine with corpses on which to experiment, but also to ensure that the condemned could not rise on Judgement Day, their bodies having been cut into pieces and selectively discarded.

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      2 months ago

      Fair. Believing that was a possibility and taking precautions to prevent. That’s creepy. I retract my original comment.