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Jennifer Trudeau

Hellmouths
Jennifer Trudeau

Medieval Funeral Directors, Hellmouths, and Churchyards

October 21, 2025 Cemeteries Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Before cemeteries had gates and grave liners, the dead were protected from hell itself. This was necessary because Medieval Europeans believed that hell’s many front doors were literally...

Catacombs in Paris
Jennifer Trudeau

Repositories of Bones, Part Two: The Winding Underworld of Catacombs

September 29, 2025 Cemeteries Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Narrow subterranean corridors interlace for miles, linking vestibules, chambers, and hidden entrances. Ceilings and temperatures down here are chilly, and damp dimness pervades the disorienting, psychologically confrontational environment....

Guillotine
Jennifer Trudeau

Guillotine Deaths Were Way Creepier Than We Thought

September 9, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Decapitation by guillotine was popular during the French Revolution, and was thought to be a merciful method of execution. Believed for centuries to be instantaneous and thereby humane,...

Ossuaries
Jennifer Trudeau

Repositories of Bones, Part One: Ossuaries

September 3, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Ossuaries can be, of course, elaborate and ornate places, sites of unique tribute to the deceased. The artistic displays of relocated human bones in ossuaries are often stunning...

buried alive
Jennifer Trudeau

Buried Before Death: The History Behind a Cultural Nightmare

August 26, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Gruesome tales go back centuries—exhumed coffins with bloodied scratch marks, mangled fingers, even corpses found entirely outside their caskets. It sounds almost too horrible to be believed. Has...

Odor of death
Jennifer Trudeau

The Odor of Imminent Death

August 14, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Final responders know that death has its own particular odor, unique as a fingerprint. Once experienced, it’s not often forgotten: decomp-specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) make the scent...

Ancient Mortuary
Jennifer Trudeau

Have Human Mortuary Practices Been Around for 245,000 Years? 

August 12, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Have human mortuary practices been around for 245,000 years? This may be the case. New archaeological evidence suggests that our ancient ancestors may have started burying their dead...

Cadaver Dog
Jennifer Trudeau

Dogs With Jobs: Sniffing Out the Missing Dead

August 6, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

What would people do without dogs? They’re casual companions and emotional supporters; dogs fight beside us in battle, catch drug traffickers, backup law enforcement and border patrol, and...

Toe tag
Jennifer Trudeau

Restlessly Dead: Cadaveric Spasm

July 23, 2025 Embalming Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

Sometimes they shift. Some huff or groan. It’s expected… sort of; over time, studies have revealed that cadavers are more “restlessness” than we thought. Movements follow generally predictable...

Hearing
Jennifer Trudeau

The Last Thing You’ll Hear: What the Brain Still Listens for as Life Fades

July 9, 2025 Funeral Industry News 0 Comments

By the time my grandmother died after a series of strokes, she’d been unresponsive for about a week. My mother wouldn’t leave Grandma’s bedside — not to eat,...

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