I have a terrible habit of googling late into the night. And let me tell you, there is a serious devolution to it. Last night it started with Pinterest (usually does) and moved on to Hotel Chelsea, then Dylan Thomas, and finally...death masks.
"Before the widespread availability of photography, the facial features of unidentified bodies were sometimes preserved by creating death masks so that relatives of the deceased could recognize them if they were seeking a missing person" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_mask).
Can you imagine having the job of creating such a thing? That's a fairly high level of tactile engagement with a dead body.
It could have been worse. One night, I spent the evening googling Jeffrey Dahmer.
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