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In 1838, 272 slaves were sold to help keep Georgetown University afloat. The New York Times helped some readers descended from the slaves piece together their families’ connection to the sale.

#american history #georgetown #reparations

Mickey Easterling at her funeral with cigarette and champagne.

Flowers in space by Makoto Azuma

#spacegifts #makoto azuma #alien valentine #flowers

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A Mixtec funerary mask from Grave No. 7, Monte Alban, Mexico.

Courtesy of & currently located at the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico. Photos taken by Anagoria via the Wiki Commons.

The Mushroom Death Suit is a body suit embroidered with thread infused with mushroom spores. The infinity mushroom will sprout, decomposing the human body and remediate the industrial toxins in bodies.

#infinity mushroom #death rituals #decomposition #future burials

To need only parsley

"Romans dedicated the herb to Persephone, queen of the underworld and to funeral rites. It became a staple of Greek funeral rituals and was scattered over graves during funeral ceremonies or planted over them. When funeral games were played, participating athletes donned wreaths of parsley. Romans would create these wreaths for their own funerals and adorn their graves with them. It was believed that great fields of parsley grew on Ogygia, the death island of Calypso. There was also the saying, De’eis thai selinon - 'to need only parsley,' which was a gentle way of saying someone had 'one foot in the grave'"