105-Year-Old Patent Suggests Storing Dead Bodies in Giant Blocks of Glass
This pertly - unearthed 1903 patent of invention entitled “ Method of preserve the Dead ” suggests salt away our corpses and disembodied heads in blocks of glass , creating the most unsettling yet kind - of - awesome paperweight ever . Why did n’t this ever take off ? “ Yeah , go seize me my shoes . They ’re sitting next to my bushed grandmother posed like she ’s flexing and wearing a Viking helmet in the 500 - pound block of glass ....