Ep. 109 - The Fascinating Funeral Industry of the 19th Century

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the funeral industry of the 19th century and a few of her favorite death-centered professions that are no longer in high demand today, but were positively fascinating: funeral cookie bakers, corpse-watchers, mutes and professional mourners.
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References:
funeral.com/blogs/the-journal/funeral-biscuits…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_edition_of_the_…
web.prm.ox.ac.uk/england/englishness-funeral-f…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_biscuit
victorianlondon.org/death/characteroffunerals.…
austins.co.uk/blog/the-history-of-the-victoria…
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/tag/pr…
collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma%3…
gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15792/pg15792-images.…
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/catego…
“Prematurely Buried” - Kilmore Free Press, Jan. 18th 1883.
“Narrowly Escaped Burial Alive” - The Clinton Independent, Thursday Feb. 18th, 1892.