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Your “Morbid Minute;” more on dead babies wearing other babies’ skulls as hats

You may have seen the archeological news item late last year of a macabre funeral find in Ecuador. Some baby graves from around 100 B.C. were unearthed where the babies are apparently wearing the skulls of other babies and children as hats. In this "Morbid Minute" installment of the ever-excellent Ask a Mortician, our favorite Goth funeral director and "death positivity" educator, Caitlin Dougherty, looks more closely at the discovery and what this practice might have meant. Image: YouTube

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