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Tw: suicide, court medicine, discussion of dead bodies, suicide mention, explaining a ritualistic suicide method in the cultural context

After death, the body in need to mummificate needs to be kept in certain conditions: mostly very warm, away from the external factors (bugs, animals, chemicals, mold etc).

Its a long term process, usually more than 1-2 years post mortem, but there were cases where the mummification process took 2 months! -in this case, the body was found in home, with the body perfectly mummified under the covers.

There is also a process of ritual suicide of automummification called sokushinbutsu. Those people use specific diet (vaguely eating only seeds for years) and gradually commiting the suicide by actively trying to get their body into the perfect conditions for mummification.

The final step of this process is locking themselves in their final coffin where they finish the process of gradually starving themselves to death while entering the staye of deep meditation.

Another funfact: DID YOU KNOW THE REASON WHY THEY ARE SO LITTLE MUMMIES FROM THE ANCIENT TIMES IS BECAUSE WE USED TO EAT THEM IN XI CENTURY. Let me repeat, WE ATE THE MUMMIES.

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Alright, something I learnt from my forensics course. It’s narcotics week.

I learnt that the word assassin came from the Arabic word ‘Hashish’, meaning, guess what? Weed.

Yeah, the word for ‘assassin’ originated from the word for ‘cannabis’

The story?

Well, apparently, in the olden days, Asia, the organiser of these assassin groups were called the ‘Old man of the mountains’ and his assassins were incredibly loyal to them because, you guessed it, the Old Man of the Mountains always supplied the assassins with a well stocked supply of weed.

So, ladies and gentlefolk, instead of stoic, cold, brutal assassins with no heart; may I present to you:

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