Happy Thursday! This week your favorite grim reapers are chatting felines feasting on flesh, some HEARSTory, we’ve got obituaries, we’ve got a U-Haul with a body in it, we’ve even got a serial dine-n-dasher, you won’t want to miss it! 

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Sources: 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9306664/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/01/15/heres-compelling-evidence-that-your-cat-might-eat-your-corpse/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/cats-eat-your-face-after-you-die

https://www.legacy.com/advice/what-is-the-difference-between-a-coffin-and-a-casket 

https://www.ranker.com/list/history-of-coffins/lyra-radford

https://www.joincake.com/blog/bier-coffin/

https://www.talkdeath.com/driving-the-dead-a-history-of-the-hearse/

https://funeralfunds.com/the-history-of-hearses-in-the-united-states-copyscaped/

https://www.nmfh.org/exhibits/permanent-exhibits/historical-hearses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_car_(ambulance)

https://hearsefest.com

https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/grandrapids/name/rosemary-fonger-obituary?pid=199656685

https://kfor.com/news/thieves-steal-u-haul-trailer-containing-body-of-man/

https://www.abqjournal.com/1063133/apd-thieves-charged-in-u-haul-body-theft.html

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