Deathinitions

By Jasper Chanter

Have you ever wondered what happens to our bodies when we die? Or what a sky burial is? How the Oxford English Dictionary can have five separate definitions for the word "death"? Who invented embal

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The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.

Deathinitions episodes:

September 11, 2023 And a Bottle of Rum
Ever wondered how the fearsome Blackbeard met his grisly end? Come aboard from some grog and I'll tell ye a tale that beggars belief about the last stand of a man with three pistols and a beard alight with the fires of hell...
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10min
September 06, 2023 ...Let Fall the Guillotine's Blade
In part two of the deathly delve into excruciating executions it's time to look at some of the worst that history has to offer and the pour souls who suffered from those terrible fates.
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25min
August 28, 2023 Dead Man's Hand
From Ash's comically murderous hand in the Evil Dead Franchise to A24's dread-filled terrifier Talk To Me, severed hands are still clutching at our collective consciousness. But where does this fascination that our divorced limbs have a life of their own come from? And why on Earth would people actively seek out the cold touch of a freshly hanged criminal?
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10min
August 24, 2023 String High the Gallows...
Today we're rolling out the ropey history in part 1 of looking at the history of public execution in all its morbid and gory details.
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20min
August 14, 2023 Morbid Morsels: A Drunken Drowning
Welcome to the Daft Demise of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, middle child and possibly the only man in history to have requested that he be drowned in a barrel of wine.
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11min
August 10, 2023 What Watery Graves are These?
Terrible accidents, war, natural disasters, progress...Floridian's? What could all these things possible have in common? Why they're all reasons behind the worlds most morbid sub-aquatic feature - the underwater graveyard! Whether purposefully sunk or having slid into the sea these are some of the final resting places of the deep that you should know about.
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24min
August 07, 2023 Morbid Morsels: The Good, The Bad and the Sometimes Sad of Highgate
In last weeks episode of Deathinitions we talked about the mystery of the Highgate Vampire. Whether you believe in blood sucking fiends or not is up to you but we can agree on is that Highgate contains a staggeringly high number of rotten remains - not all of them were good people. And some were just very unlucky. So today we're going to meet some of the cemetery's own mad, bad, (often just sad) and dangerous to know.
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10min
August 02, 2023 What is...The Highgate Vampire?
This week we're takinga trip to Highgate Cemetery in London where shadows stalk and vampires and satanists may be just around the corner...
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23min
July 31, 2023 Morbid Morsels: Quoth the Raven
On this weeks Morbid Morsel - the shorter weekly episodes where I tell you about bizarre snippets from history and fun and grizzly stories and facts that didn't make it into last weeks episode - we delve into the mysterious case of one of literature's strangest demises.
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10min
July 24, 2023 Morbid Morsels: Famous Last Words
This weeks Morbid Morsel is a jaunt through some of histories most bizarre final goodbyes. To get more unsettling final utterances check out Paul Berra's Famous Last Words here: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Grave-Tidings-by-Paul-Berra/9781785901027

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9min

FAQs about Deathinitions:

How many episodes does Deathinitions have?

The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.