What It Was Like to Be a Body Collector During the Black Plague

[@dwrussell96]

I do mortuary transport for a living. I can't stand doing house calls where the person is decomposed. I couldn't imagine doing it 700 years ago with the sheer amount of disgusting bodies to pick up, but also without body bags, latex gloves, or any type of protective gear. These dudes are chads.

[@gohawks3571]

Chads??? But, to what you were saying, massive respect for doing that job, esp if you have to do that housecall one... People want to be able to die at home, but this proves sometimes that's just not for the best. Not only for you, but how miserable those last hours would be, unless it's unexpected in your sleep or something...

[@GodofWarChuka]

That would be a hard job. I just handle Soda, tea and water for a living. Hard work, but not disgusting.

[@jennyrose9454]

I cant imagine doing it now

[@thenifell]

@@GodofWarChuka If I may ask: do mean delivery?

[@GodofWarChuka]

@@thenifell Delivery driving and merchandising in grocery stores.

[@janehallowell5886]

My husband and I have a one hour commute every morning and listen to a few episodes each day. We absolutely adore Wierd History and learning super random topics. Keep up the awesome content!

[@linadoany1890]

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[@superspinsimon3127]

what do you mean

[@jennyrose9454]

I hope your company pays you gas money

[@z.weertje7209]

Who cares ?

[@debbylou5729]

@@jennyrose9454most people I know with a one hour commute are on public transport

[@grapeshot]

Septicemia bubonic plague was the version of the plague that they said you ate breakfast with your relatives but ate dinner with your ancestors.

[@Forgiveiolord]

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[@jackiereynolds2888]

Yes, - Pneumonic and Septicemic plague were more virulent than Bubonic plague. Yes, you could rise in the morning and retire in the ground come evening.

[@linadoany1890]

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[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

"BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!" "I'm not dead yet!"

[@Forgiveiolord]

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[@SH19922x]

Thats a whole other real issue that happened during the plague, it was a perfect funnel for killing rivals, hated family members etc.

[@LongJohnHolmes]

@@SH19922x :) You can have a good family :)

[@donHooligan]

@@SH19922x the dark ages were necessary for the bankers to change the course of humanity. you would care about your planet, otherwise.

[@ruthanneseven]

@@donHooligan The banking system was set up by the Templars, to protect pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem from robbers. They only got into trouble when a French king couldn't pay back, or get more $ from them. He got a Pope to accuse them all of absurd crimes, leading to the Friday the 13th arrest of Jaques DeMolay, and our current superstition of Friday's on the 13th. The ghastly hubris of Abrahamic religious barbarism has lead the world into planetary disregard, by objectifying our planet, not as our Mother, but as a resource to control and recklessly plunder.

[@pamelamays4186]

Now I can fully appreciate that "Bring out your dead!" scene in Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

[@linadoany1890]

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[@squirrlygrrlg]

but i'm not dead yet... 😹 was hoping this would be in the video somewhere...

[@gohawks3571]

@@squirrlygrrlg I'm getting bettah... Ooof!😁 I was surprised not to see it as well😁

[@sasquatchdonut2674]

That scene was a masterpiece

[@hellraiser9049]

Love this video for I am a modern day ' body collector' . Being apart of the coroners office I pick up the deceased all day and all night in every type of death you can imagine.

[@jaymundo223]

God bless you 🙏 working as a nurse death has been one of the hardest things I've dealt with..I can't imagine working around death daily

[@nickd3157]

Absolute horrible yet necessary job. An interesting take on it, many legends and even nursery rhymes are based upon the plague but all the same thank you Weird History. Excellent vid. :-)

[@linadoany1890]

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[@Davepool-hs7vr]

Someone had to do the jobs that no other person could stomach doing

[@dtdimeflicks6708]

Ring Around the Rosey is a good example.

[@sarahlouise7163]

a ring o’ ring o’ roses a pocket full of posies a-tishoo! a-tishoo! we all fall down

[@dobees8183]

Ring around the rosey, Pockets full of posies, Ashes ashes We all fall down

[@micahtischler2852]

Heck yes love this channel so much!! Perfect Sunday morning

[@Forgiveiolord]

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[@brandonconner8034]

Thought I was the only one that got down on a Sunday, watching all this history that's weird!

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[@historicalcucumber]

Fun fact: The people who survived the black death had a genetic mutation known as CCR5-Delta 32. That's why some descendants whose ancestors survived the plague in Europe carry the gene now, it's not found in people from Asian or African decent at all, which made researchers wonder why and it turns out those populations never faced the plague like Northern Europeans did....Because the mutation allowed those people to survive there was a limited gene pool and it was passed down to the children and so on. So if your a Caucasian whos ancestors survived the plague chances are good that you have at least one copy of the gene....another crazy fact is that if you inherent 2 copies of the Delta 32 gene (one from each parent) you can't be infected with hiv/aids at all as it makes you immune to it (the plague and hiv infect people by using the same receptors on white blood cells, think of the receptors as a lock and the plague and hiv as the key but people with this mutation dont have those receptors so theres no where for the key too attach and invade the hosts body.) Researchers are trying to find a way to use these genes to fight hiv/aids now. If you have only one copy of the gene you are far less likely to get hiv/aids than people who don't the mutation at all, but only the people with 2 copies are truly immune.

[@maggiemae7539]

The ones truly immune are the ones not having sex or using or both.

[@historicalcucumber]

@@maggiemae7539 This gene mutation has the potential to help a lot of people, like children born to hiv + mothers, Healthcare workers who have been exposed to hiv positive blood and can possibly treat other diseases yet unknown....drug addicts and sexually promiscuous people aren't the only ones at risk this isn't the 80s.

[@marquisdelafayette1929]

We all have Ignaz Semmelweis to thank for modern hand washing hygiene in hospitals. As a doctor be noticed that the women who had money and delivered their babies at the hospital by male doctors had higher mortality rates than those by midwives. He noticed how doctors would regularly go do autopsies and then deliver babies. So he came up with the idea of washing hands before, oh idk, using germy autopsy hands to spread disease. Deaths dropped and it was effective.. til the backlash hit. Then he was called a quack and committed to an insane asylum like you would expect.

[@Clobek]

That's quite literally a video Weird History has done... "How a 19th Century Doctor's Tried to Get His Peers To Wash Their Hands".

[@LongJohnHolmes]

Semmelweis Ignác was hungarian

[@ruthanneseven]

At least he wasn't burned at the stake, a fate many midwives/herbalist women faced in earlier times, which served up the additional benefit of any desire to confiscate their coveted lands and wealth, if they had any inheritance. He got off easy. As a side note, even 20 years ago, a doctor prescribing vitamin C was considered to be on the "fringe" by other doctors and even pharmacists. This, despite the extensive research of Dr. Linus Pauling, lauding it's use in a variety of ways for good reason. They thought he was a quack too. He lived well into his 90s. There used to be a cassette tape out called "Dead Doctors Don't Lie", which I listened to and deeply researched back in the late 80s. So much of what doctors know is based on sick, not well people. Anatomy drawings, based mostly on the aged, are also dicey. They show a variety of soft tissue problems and misalignments which are normalized, instead of critically examining placement with an engineer's mind. Nuts!

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[@missywink1504]

My husband had that audio-cassette and we always listened to it in the car. I remember it mentioning the benefits of using the same medicines that veterinarians and farmers use for their own pets.

[@cernowaingreenman]

With covid19, we've had many deaths, lots of hardships, along with many inconveniences-- but it still pales greatly when compared to the Black Plague of the late Middle Ages.

[@QuillStroke]

COVID has a higher survival rate than the Plague. The media fear mongering was the reason people are so misinformed.

[@ElisonJackson]

@@QuillStroke well consider the ~900 years of healthcare advances

[@cernowaingreenman]

@@ElisonJackson Right! Plus we were lucky to have immunization shots which didn't exist in the Middle Ages. We had 900,000 Americans die, and it would have been much worse without modern healthcare advances.

[@Noah_E]

There is a reason only age adjusted death rates are available for 2020 and 2021. The CDC is trying to conceal the fact that the death rate didn't change much. It has been between 8.65 and 8.7 per 1,000 for years, and COVID didn't change that overall.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

@@QuillStroke That is patently false ... unless you want to talk about Faux News and their fear mongering take on vaccines and masks. Talk about unethical people. People get misinformed by listening to the non-experts.

[@scottrick7321]

I'd be interested in hearing about the history of trash collectors.

[@linadoany1890]

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[@akramgimmini8165]

Same sounds actually interesting

[@Strongify03017]

They don't exist

[@gohawks3571]

May I say thank you for ramping up the videos? I'm having a hard time distracting myself from this war, and your videos hold my attention. Not being uncaring about what's going on, but my brain is going to melt if I'm on it 24/7....

[@jaymundo223]

I agree this has been helping me also

[@secretunknown253]

Lol you have a hard time distracting yourself from a war that doesn’t affect you lol

[@jaymundo223]

@@secretunknown253 no just day to day life in general

[@maxmcgraw3571]

You didn't say anything about the body collectors catching it. How long did their career typically last?

[@Manuel-gu9ls]

Good question I doubt they paid them well

[@shepherdserenity]

@@Manuel-gu9ls the video literally said they got paid well like 5 times

[@dickbuttbuttdick901]

@@shepherdserenity Yeah, but did they get paid well?

[@linadoany1890]

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[@xxxCyr0x]

@@shepherdserenity But what about the pay? Was it worth it?

[@cindycountry9247]

This is so awesome! I was a body remover until 2007, trust me folks this job is still rough but we have come a long way lol ! Oh but smelly, thank goodness for Vicks!!!! Great story!

[@davidlester1736]

It's amazing no matter what the subject, the narrator's comments are priceless - that's one reason why I watch every one. Keep them coming - you are the best of the best!!

[@vonslagle]

I would’ve ran into the wilderness and tried to survive by myself

[@linadoany1890]

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[@gohawks3571]

After a bit, it probably felt like a wilderness because everyone else was dead☹️ I get what you mean, I just imagine walking thru all this to escape would have been just as bad as hiding in your house...

[@Cloudkirb]

You probably could

[@crustyjuggler382]

VIDEO IDEA: What were Medieval superstitions? i.e folk tales, ghosts, woods, fairies, ect

[@DrumWild]

In our modern age, some approach public health as if it's a political concern. They are literal and figurative mouth-breathers.

[@linadoany1890]

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[@leeonardodienfield402]

In our modern age, people call big pharma evil and corrupt and then a sudden switch is flipped on and if you continue holding that view you're antiscience. lol

[@mgoi2254]

Public health in regards to con-vid was a complete joke. The only "mouth-breathers" are the ones who obeyed what public health told them for 2 full years.. LOL... If you think Covid is about anything other than an attempt to restructure our society to favour the hyper wealthy even more so than now, you're clueless.

[@jay-d8g3v]

@@mgoi2254 LOVE seeing society being mass trained for incoming future slavery on a global scale..

[@AeneasGemini]

I love history, it always puts modern problems into perspective. Our propensity to moan as if the sky is falling is always fairly annoying when you realise that even the very worst of times for us are probably still better than the best day of someone living through most eras of history

[@Coryraisa]

So, so true, AeneasGemini!!!!

[@TheElusiveReality]

Sanitation workers are always the most important, they truly hold our society together

[@keyshia6909]

Facts they definitely are paid enough

[@smallbeginning2]

Crazy to think all my ancestors must have survived these plagues long enough to reproduce

[@Jazmillenium]

I can't imagine the emotional scars the plague left on an entire generation of those who survived it. You hear about mental health and Covid, but if it was on this scale, wow.

[@amyfitzpatrick7633]

People were tougher then, for sure!

[@hippyelise1]

Unbelievable story! I hope this world never needs body collectors like that again. 😳

[@buildtherobots]

Gives new meaning to "Bring out your dead"

[@minuteman4199]

I don't imagine the body collector would have gotten rich off their trade because they wouldn't live long enough.

[@linadoany1890]

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[@extremespartan117]

Unless you had rare immunity. Then $$$

[@jenniferwisdom-hagler6263]

I absolutely love this channel I watch about three or four episodes of it every day

[@julianaylor4351]

Another medieval jobs that would be interesting to know about, would be building cathedrals. For a horrid job how about the night soil men.

[@hermit7903]

I'm curious to know the death rates of the body collectors.

[@linadoany1890]

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[@GodofWarChuka]

It was probably bad to. Horrible time era to live in!

[@grapeshot]

The hardcover copy of Stephen King's The Stand, you can use that for personal home defense. You whack somebody over the head with that one, it's all over for them.

[@linadoany1890]

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[@GodofWarChuka]

And I thought picking up dog poop 💩 was bad! LoL

[@jennyrose9454]

It still is

[@tuvia4082]

I'm sure the Pope consecrating the river really helped heaps.

[@veralindqvist3944]

“Bring out yer dead!”

[@Maxaldojo]

Thanks for the Monty Python reference! Knew it was coming, cuz it had to be there... Bring out your dead, DONG! Bring out your dead, DONG!

[@flavioa6351]

This is what people think Covid was

[@John_Locke_108]

😂

[@toyamwarr]

I kind of wish there was a “and you thought your job sucks” kind of reality show were modern people learned what their jobs would have been like if they lived centuries earlier. I know the death industry is getting a lot of business thanks to covid but I can’t imagine how rough being a funeral director would be one had to deal with the bubonic plague with no the protective equipment and only flowers to cancel out the smell. Most would probably take the Victorian age when body snatching was the biggest problem versus having to drive a horse drawn cart on cobblestone to pick up last night’s plague victims.

[@spunchbob2322]

Well u know what they say, one man's body is another man's treasure

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[@darllalett960]

I can't even imagine living in these times.

[@selinesbeau]

Who actually paid them though? The families or the government as a public service?

[@goskaterightnow]

The joke about big bird was hilarious. This show has such fun writing.

[@augustopinochet1670]

I wonder if they choreographed intricate dance routines like the health professionals of today's pandemic.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

No, they didn't. You were on your own. No public health departments then. I prefer today's standards, thank you very much.

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[@brodyberry6253]

Dude this is some bomb ass content! you’re definitely going big places bro 💯 so keep up the good work bud. 🤘🏻

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[@maryclark1049]

"Bring out your dead!" "He'll be stone dead in a moment" "Here! He says he's not dead" "We can't take him. We got the Robinsons they lost nine today..."

[@btetschner]

Amazing video, it is almost like one of those dark nursery rhymes. I don't know what it is about plague videos, but Weird History is a master of them (best I have ever seen). Thank you so much for making the video.

[@brandonpatterson6907]

I always think about what current day knowledge I would want if I were to ever time travel back to times like this. I think knowing that I could boil water in order to kill most germs and ailments in it and also clean my clothing and body with it. I would also want to know what I need to make a primitive soap in order to clean my person. And also knowing that hard alcohol has sanitizing properties. I would probably end up changing history by teaching everyone around me how to clean and be more healthy.

[@NewMessage]

"Would you like to see my butterfly collection?" "Sure... wanna see my Plague victim collection?" " Oh... you're THAT Steve."

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[@mikitz]

The best thing about the Python's Holy Grail bit is how it could've easily been an actual historical conversation.

[@TXnine7nine]

“Bring out your dead!”

[@littlemiss4259]

Another great vid! Is it possible to make one on the nursery rhymes based on the plague or other historical events?

[@Craig_Andrus]

We all hope these notifications are for the "TIMELINE SERIES" but even when they aren't we still watch the the video in it's entirety anyway.

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[@lawrencemartinjr6888]

There’s no difference between the body collectors of the past then the funeral home and undertakers of today except now they get $10k-15k when they extort the family’s then the burial plot people finish the extortion!

[@JohnnyAngel8]

That's capitalism. lol

[@iandaut9634]

Huge difference actually. Today's funeral homes are mostly managed by a corporation known as Service Corporation International (SCI). There are some funeral homes that are privately owned but the majority are owned by them. This gives them a near monopoly in the market of death remembrance. So they control all of the pricing in the worst way. I highly suggest you look into their near total control of this industry and its ramifications. The main difference is back then no one wanted to do this job but was absolutely necessary. Today though, there are enough who want to do it as well as satisfying the needs and traditions of the survivors of the deceased. They cannot for the most part compete with SCI who leverages price and supply controls that boxes out competitors while leveraging your guilt into not giving your loved one the proper send off they deserve.

[@gunsandmoses8670]

Yes I probably would have been a body collector. I was an HVAC man so I worked on walk in freezers in the morge. We couldn't take the body's out to work on the equipment so we just had to move them around. I won't lie first time was a little morbid but you get used to it.

[@hitechinc.7875]

Some people these days:covid is deadly and dangerous. People during bubonic plague:are we a joke to you?

[@araasis3239]

It's not related, but I'd love to see a video on how many things had to go wrong for Hurricane Katrina to be as devastating as it was.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

They still occasionally find 'plague pits', the mass graves of victims, whilst doing construction or tunnelling for new Tube lines in London.

[@SuperNatblessed]

He said the body collectors had job security only people like us can dream of I died laughing I lost it!! 🤣🤣🤣😂😂Facts!!

[@glennt69lol]

The background music is super cool

[@t.j.meechan682]

Haven't watched the video yet, but I know this is going to be a good one.

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[@Myriako]

Thank you for this video ! 😊💐

[@douglashelsel]

DUDE, you have a really good knack of ruining One's appetite 😆 🤣 😂 Keep Up the GREAT Work 👍 👌

[@CeaserBTradeGang]

The period of time that the Black Plague was traveling across the planet had to be one of the worst most scariest times to be alive man smfh so many people lost their lives from children to elderly folks and anyone in-between !!! I could only imagine the quality of living in those days smh it had to be crazy AF to even just wake up and go through your day !!! Just shows you how tough and intelligent and brave people can be to make it through something so ungodly and devistating no cap .. #salute and #rip to all of those who lost their lives due to the Black Plague aka #TheBlackDeath !!! 😥😠🤬😤😫😳🙏🏾💪🏾✊🏾💙💙💙💯💯💯✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾!!!!!

[@ArcherSuh4721]

Me two-thirds of the way through the video: "Really? They aren't going to reference the body collectors from Monty Python and the Holy Grail? They always jump at a chance for a Monty Python joke! Oh, there we go! Excellent."

[@selfiekroos1777]

'Hi cutie, whats up?' 'Ya, ive got my own horse and a job' 'I um, am in Sanitation'

[@Vincent-S]

Totally gonna use “graveyard farts” for rotting smells now

[@marciawhite692]

Love love love Weird History

[@johnnychavando6138]

If this would have been my only way to move out of poverty, considering the time, absolutely yes

[@1231mn]

thank you for the warning. I was watching ur channel, and this video autoplay--while i was eating breakfast and watching--so ur warning to "put down my burrito" was appreciated.

[@jay-d8g3v]

I wonder if there's a movie out there that focused on the life of a body collector back in a time like this??

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up as a support

[@charlieclark9552]

I feel bad for them

[@jonathanconley8613]

I absolutely love this I learned so much thank you weird history

[@edgewyze7352]

Love your dark humorous one-liners

[@daemon.running]

For context, 200 million people died from this. The total population of earth at the time was 350 million.

[@mouawyaa]

Best channel ever

[@soulstripper3305]

Man that was rough

[@PLuMUK54]

According to local tradition, my house is built on the edge of the village plague pit. Certainly, the road was originally called Black Pit Lane, and there are no coal deposits around here, so it was widely assumed that the name referred to the Black Death. The Medieval village was a short distance away, just as plague pits would have been. My garden is about 0.5 metres higher than surrounding gardens and also above the level of my house, suggesting that something was buried there. I've no idea of the truth, but it's a good tale to tell children...😉

[@sergiovillanueva3108]

Does this channel have a podcast yet? Or do I have to keep downloading the videos to listen to them on my drives? I love the content just haven't kept up in a hot sec!

[@SimplyHolisticASMR]

The voice presenter for this channel is so relaxing !

[@clairen8335]

Gotta be a Black Plague doctor for Halloween..awesome costume ...

[@pattycake8272]

So I decided this was a good video to watch while eating leftover pizza.

[@qienna6677]

Not everyone chose to be a body collector. When a family was sealed into their house, one member of the family would be chosen and forced to become a body collector.

[@kalebgonzales4009]

Dead collector: Bring out ye dead! Bring out the dead! Grandpa: I’m not dead! I can still walk!

[@tremorsfan]

It's possible that the great fire of 1666 halted the spread of the plague of 1665 seeing as a lot of rats were burned up along with the houses.

[@kenziejames13]

If Mike Rowe was alive during this time, the black death would have been a killer episode

[@j.c.bernardo7967]

Came here for the Monty Python reference. Was not disappointed.

[@btetschner]

If I was confident that I wouldn't be infected, then I would have been a body collector. It might be morbid and disgusting, but it still is a public service (and an important one).

[@mulhamjarjanazi8501]

Great video!

[@Willy_Tepes]

And some today refuse to belive that contagious diseases exist. What happened to education?

[@brianabraham8726]

Can you do a video on what music people in ancient and medieval times used to listen to? Like in ancient rome and greece?

[@Felled-angel]

Here's a story, i learnt fallen leaves are slippery the hard way, got into a fist fight outside the pub after some dead beat insulted my honour so i challenged him to a duel to the death as one dose but unfortunately due to the leaves we were slipping all over the place and the female spectators lost interest and left well after 20 minutes of "you let go first then I'll let go" we managed to stop betraying each other and go our separate ways but we both to this day maintain the opinion that if it was not for the slippery leaves the other would be dead, true story.

[@stevenbaer5999]

That's actually how we got the nursery rhyme Ring around the rosy? A priest who gave the deceased person or maybe people Last Rites then there's actually more dead bodies. The smell of so much bodies has to be very extremely bad and demoralizing. Flagellants of Germany would actually blame the Jews and other people for the pestilence and would actually put to death. Pope Clement the 6th said that it wasn't actually the Jews who brought it to Europe since the Jews actually was dying from it as well. Some of the priests were actually very extremely afraid of the illness that they wouldn't give them any Last Rites but they fled in terror. Those people who picked up the bodies became infected as well and died. There were actually so many people who died from the Plague that they had to burn the bodies. The living people actually stole anything from the dead bodies and the dying just to be alive and safe. Many people actually believe that God Almighty himself cause it for their own sins and trying to make God himself to bless them and forgive them.

[@laurieb3703]

Our poor ancestors 😢 They were absolute units to survive through all these horrific things!

[@thecooldude4371]

People were dying to meet them

[@crlaf1978]

… graveyard fart just sent me 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Hotwingsmaster]

I do this now, I work for a mortuary transport company

[@PrairieWolff]

The Decameron is still one of the best reads, to this day.

[@deniseherud]

Can we just talk about the framed sketch of the bird-masked doctor on the desk😱 That’s literally the last thing I’d want peeping at me!😂 Nightmare fuel right there!

[@smelkus]

I wonder if any of them really did bash people who weren't dead if nobody was looking like in Monty Python and the holy grail

[@jacksunstone8771]

Today, I'm a truck driver. So yeah, back then, I probably would have been a body collector.

[@thewhitewolf58]

Oh thats a god tier threat "pay up or all kill you are say you were just another victim or the world ending plague."

[@brooksmc]

I'm not dead!!!