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Post by Graveyardbride on Jun 18, 2016 4:18:13 GMT -5
Three-year-old Edna Small died in 1888 at Houlton, Maine.
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Post by kitty on Jun 27, 2016 18:16:30 GMT -5
People back then were a lot more comfortable with death. I've heard that when Lizzie Borden's parents were murdered, that they laid them out on the dining room table and they stayed there all night. People today would be horrified to have a dead family member in the house unless they were in a casket.
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Post by chris on Jun 28, 2016 11:34:13 GMT -5
Didn't they do autopsies on them? Why did they leave them laying on the table overnight?
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Post by Joanna on Jun 28, 2016 22:47:43 GMT -5
Didn't they do autopsies on them? Why did they leave them laying on the table overnight?
Back then, autopsies were usually done in the home. The autopsies on Abby and Andrew Borden weren't performed until the day after they were killed and they were dissected on the dining room table, where they had lain since the day before.
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Post by jason on Jun 30, 2016 9:37:22 GMT -5
It was August when the Borden murders occurred, so the bloody bodies would have been stinking up the entire house by the next day. But people back then weren't as sensitive to smells as they are today. They didn't use deodorant, seldom bathed and instead of getting up at night and trekking downstairs to the water closet, or outhouse, they used slop jars, so I'm sure they barely noticed the stench of two decomposing corpses in the dining room.
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Post by pat on Jun 30, 2016 16:46:17 GMT -5
It was August when the Borden murders occurred, so the bloody bodies would have been stinking up the entire house by the next day. But people back then weren't as sensitive to smells as they are today. They didn't use deodorant, seldom bathed and instead of getting up at night and trekking downstairs to the water closet, or outhouse, they used slop jars, so I'm sure they barely noticed the stench of two decomposing corpses in the dining room.
People were different about death and cleanliness in the past. Still, two rotting corpses in the dining room must have been almost unbearable. But from what I've read, Lizzie and the others went about everything as usual and I think that they spent a lot of time in the kitchen, which was right next to the dining room. I hope that they at least closed the door.
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