@@nickhardy8300 same! I’ve made it so my family knows I want to be donated to science, especially my brain. I have good reason to believe I have some form of CTE.
@@craftycriminalistwithms.z3053 My best friend just did this! You have to plan in advance, make arrangements with the nearest University, sign a bunch of papers, then you're good to go.
Britain has such an extensive and cool history that they're probably used to this stuff the way we Californians were used to walking by movies being shot and watching for a few minutes, then going on.
I actually learned significantly more from this episode than usual, such as there being an actually pretty rational reason for believing that corpses were still alive. Thanks for this lesson . :)
@@ciciwoods4556 you won't. Bodies in funerals are pumped full of preservatives basically to keep you from decomposing and smelling like death so no bloat, no gas, no farting or other explosion
@@ciciwoods4556 don't be worried about farting at your funeral! Donate as many organs as you possibly can, and be thoroughly embalmed, and you won't need to fart at your funeral. Corpse gas emissions are from the decomposition process, so if decomposition is arrested, as with embalming, then there won't be any emissions.
@@LiliAquinas I agree donate your organs but the idea of embalming needs to stop being pushed. It’s terrible for the environment and does little good for the dead body. If your goal is preservation embalming doesn’t do that…it can make a corpse look more lively because of the color but a skilled mortician can give the same effect with corpse makeup and often times your loved one will look more like them selves this way. On top of that embalming wouldn’t do anything to stop your corpse from farting because by the time Oregon’s would’ve been donated and a person would’ve made it into a casket for a viewing pressure and gases would’ve been released through incisions removing organs. And if your body is stored properly and cooled even if there is no incision there shouldn’t be a buildup of gas because decomposition moves slowly in cooler temperatures.
lmao. ancient people would see us now as aliens. literally a fantasy as reality. imagine one of these people seeing a modern hospital. they would think they're hallucinating a fever dream
@@BigHotSauceBoss69 they'd think they're in the afterlife! Lol. Even better, imagine a huge burly viking standing inside a modern hospital: Musclehead viking: Is this... valhalla? IT MUST BE. *tears* I MADE IT MUMMA, I MADE IT TO VALHALLA *sobs* 21st century receptionist: um.. are you alright sir?
Lol my thoughts too. When they cut it open a bit I was just imagining that it was letting out all these gross corpse gases, I was like “omg protect yourselves!!”
@@LG141602 Viruses don't linger in weeks-old dead stuff. Bacteria does. Believe it or not, viruses need animals, including humans, to stay alive. They can't replicate without a living host. Those individual viruses that kill their hosts will be the ones that don't replicate enough to last much longer, and those that don't kill their hosts will replicate and continue to thrive for a while. That leads to a virus evolving into something less likely to kill. So a pig that's been dead for a few weeks won't have viruses that are still alive.
People would “commit suicide”, and get buried instead of executed... and then rise from the ground as the effects wore off from the poison or whatever. These could have been “staged suicides”, or at least there had been a history of them, so people were being more thorough against those possibly trying to escape from execution.
@@fabledfantasty7343 It's happened before, especially if there's any kind of surrounding barrier like a box or something. They didn't always bury deeply in the ground, either.
Ikr? I love these vids, but what I love even more is living in an era that allows me to just kick back and have all this wondrous knowledge at my fingertips
I don't think we understand it all, rather there are laws and ethical standards. But there are still many similar things if not worse going on behind closed doors. Not published and shared openly.
A lot of people used to be accidentally buried alive when they were thought to be dead, so maybe its out of the fear that the ‘dead’ really will rise up
Yeah, or, in the case of the Victorians at least, they actually knew they were fucking up. They would tie strings to the corpse's fingers. The string was attached to a bell near the grave. Then if the bell rang, the cryptkeeper knew to dig them up. Fast. It's apparently where the phrase "dead ringer" comes from.
I was watching this while making dinner. The part where they dug up the pig began while I was cutting up cooked chicken. I'm not sure I am ever going to be able to eat chicken again. I really should have known better than to watch something with cannibalism in the title around mealtime.
Ya know bc they didnt have enough to worry about already. Their whole idea about death was more familiar than ours so maybe it's not so strange they had trouble separating life from death.
Science is still pagan... look up how they shiftem magic for science lol 😆 part of the gread deception in the bible... pharmakia is scorcery which os also where we get pharmaceutical and intersting secrecy is linked to drugs and what are pharmaceuticals also called 🤔 drugs... and don't get me started on the spiritual practices of early scientists... look up scientism tge religion behind science
@@makeracistsafraidagain So, County Fermanagh in England has soil that, for the longest time, the villagers would take a handful of the soil on the church grounds and put it in their pillows at night if they had headaches or other ailments. Now we know why, to quote Dr. Garry Quinn "When we brought the soil back to the laboratory we found a new species of streptomyces that had never been discovered before and it contained many antibiotics and some of these antibiotics actually killed some multi-resistant pathogens"(www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-46651702#:~:text=An%20ancient%20folk%20remedy%20from,in%20Boho%20can%20cure%20infections.) What that tells me is that paganism has always been science. Now we have the tools to quantify WHY.
Not all Absolute History videos are captivating but this episode was extremely well informed and well narrated by Tony. This deserves so much more likes than it's gotten. Great episode. Thank you Tony and AH
The narrator is so impassioned and good natured when the most morbid subjects come up, it warms my heart. My favorite part is when he makes himself an impromptu Richard III and goes all in. "That wasn't bad, was it?" "Very good!" He's just so pleased with himself, I have to smile with him! Edit: And an honorable mention goes to about 34 minutes, "This is coming away really nicely! I thought I would be no good at this, but I've got loads and loads of shavings already! ( ╹▽╹ )" in reference to shaving pieces off the skull of a pig. edit again: you know what, there's too many beautiful moments. I can't list them all. I probably watched the part three times where our dear narrator gently dabbed a tiny bit of oil in the general direction of his groin, and I all but lost my mind at the Monty Python-like exchange when he said "I'm feeling quite well actually" and the man fulfilling the role of the priest told him no. Obviously, this man is more than a national treasure, because I'm American.
As someone who'd only ever seen Tony Robinson as Baldric prior to these historical shows, it struck me as odd to see him driving a car. I know it shouldn't, but there it is.
As a Biology undergrad I dissected all kinds of creatures, and I'm kind of fascinated by decomposition in general, so a program like this is my jam. But that pig pushed me to my limit, and it's only on a screen, LOL!!
I know they can't get a contagious disease from breathing in rotten pig bacteria, but wouldn't you have been flunked out of class for not masking up? It BUGS me OUT, lol!!!
@@widowrumstrypze9705 Would you believe I rarely even wear gloves when dissecting? If I have any cuts on my fingers then the choice is obvious, but otherwise I go without. I'm allergic to latex and the vinyl alternatives hinder dexterity such that I'm more likely to drop utensils or even give myself new cuts. And I can't explain why, but somehow gross stuff feels even grosser through a squishy barrier. I'd rather just work with my bare hands; mindfulness not to touch anything before thorough washing kicks in automatically, so that's what I do.
Honestly as an ex-catholic I really like how they presented the last rites and ideas about death and the body... as weird. Because it is super weird from an outside perspective, and so often documentaries just dance around the more grisly bits for fear of offending. But the transubstantiation, the beliefs of the apocalypse and judgemsnt day and bodies resurrecting... they're WILD and I'm so glad this show touched on that.
I immediately recognized the host's voice. I was like "is that Baldrick from Blackadder?!" And then I looked at the host and I recognized his facial features. This guy is the actor who played Baldrick in Blackadder.
Not just inject they use in our food production as well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senomyx Also adrenochrome is a thing patents.google.com/patent/US4501923A/en
In Vietnam, I've been told, the two big toes of a corpse are tied together before burial. If the corpse reanimates, it won't be able to walk around. The Vietnamese person who told me this was known to be a bit of a joker, so I don't know if it's true.
@@made-line7627 idk Madeline, humans i think as modern humans go evolve slowly (dark ages) but then we recently past 150 years have become this ultimate species of sophistication especially last 20 years since computer tech and cell tech evolved. Before that i can't help but think we were stupid war mongering (even worse) attacking neighbors and being brutal against women and children since time immoral
What's curious to me about the mutilation of the corpses is how it intersects with Christian beliefs. Along with Jesus rising from the dead in the Bible, he also was said to have raised others from the dead, such as Lazarus. So I would think that a reanimation would have been considered a holy thing? that maybe God or Jesus was raising new corpses for some reason the common folk didn't understand? I'm confused as to how there came to be a negative connotation with random peasants rising from the dead if it was portrayed as a positive thing in the Bible. All I can think of is that it had to do with the unpleasant look of the bodies, compared with whatever artwork of the time portrayed a risen Jesus or Lazarus- I've never seen an historical piece of art that portrayed Jesus looking like a dead body. In any case, it's interesting trying to figure out how people back then would have reconciled such things in their thoughts. I'd also never heard about people drinking the blood at executions, that's shocking to me, but certainly would have made sense to people at the time I suppose.
As an America... during one of the driving sense I panicked for a second like "nooo that's the wrong side of the road! In the rain! Going into a blind corner!" .. and immediately realized I'm being dumb.
Wait, this is a common error- the AVERAGE lifespan was in the 30s, but it's pulled down by so many people dying in childhood. Infant mortality was just astonishing. If you made it to 15 you had a good chance of making it to 60 or so. I'm surprised and disappointed that a history channel would make that kind of error.
Anyone else think that mummy is kinda cutesy? I know it's weird, but icant help but think it's like they're smiling, and the lil teeth poking out gives it a cute lil appearance almost... I know, I'm weirded out with myself too.
This was perhaps the best in-depth, thought provoking story on death and the history of death from centuries ago up until now! Quite fascinating actually! EXCELLENT job thank you!
This is such an interesting way to inform about history! I love the hands-on demonstrations and the funny comments. History comes to life this way! Thank you, and greetings from Berlin Germany 🤗👍
As a child I had a very vivid dream which I still remember today: Some friends and I had discovered a concrete sarcophagus sitting at the end of a neighbor's driveway. We either (somehow) opened it or disturbed it, and this unleashed a plague- caused by the spotted skeleton-thing which had been inside! The last part of the dream I remember was after most people had succumbed, when I was hiding under a table in the kitchen, and this thing- like a spotted skeleton- bends down to look. (That's what this plague did: it turned you into some kind of a spotted-skeleton-thing.) 😏 lol
38:13 Most people would *not* be dead by their mid-30s. Infant mortality was incredibly high back then, and all those dead babies brought the average life expectancy down. If you made it to adulthood, you'd probably have a fairly normal (by our standards) lifespan ahead of you.
So basically the thought of zombies have scared us for centuries
@Celto Loco Damn dude, again!
@Celto Loco I like ghosts
@Celto Loco well then i guess most adults aren’t intelligent then
"I'm actually feeling quite well now."
"No, no.... Off you go"
Had me in stitches!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"I feel happy! I feel happy!" :D
I am going to donate my body for research. The way to go.
@@nickhardy8300 So am I. Once I'm dead I won't care.
@@nickhardy8300 same! I’ve made it so my family knows I want to be donated to science, especially my brain. I have good reason to believe I have some form of CTE.
@@craftycriminalistwithms.z3053 My best friend just did this! You have to plan in advance, make arrangements with the nearest University, sign a bunch of papers, then you're good to go.
Tony at his last rites reminds me of Monty Python- "I'm feeling better... I think I'll go for a walk"
I wonder what all of those bystanders thought was going on.
Britain has such an extensive and cool history that they're probably used to this stuff the way we Californians were used to walking by movies being shot and watching for a few minutes, then going on.
Yeah. Did you actually realise that you could probably get away with murder in broad daylight as long as you were filming it?
I like how they are just casually driving a stake through a copse in the middle of the sidewalk and there are onlookers just standing there like wft
If I saw that I’d call the cops lmao
You would be suprised about the things people can do in puplic when there's a camera
Over a suicide? Holy shit, mutilation of a dead body because they killed themselves. That is so wrong she wanted to be dead, leave her alone!
They are used to historical recreation in England
Not one of you heathens reacted to reading "wft"?
If you read cannabis, y’all came to the wrong place. Lol
damn, thanks for the heads up, friend.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
😅
Damn my stoned ass got fooled. Oh well I’m down for cannibalism.
OMG 😂😂 lmao! I did!
I actually learned significantly more from this episode than usual, such as there being an actually pretty rational reason for believing that corpses were still alive. Thanks for this lesson . :)
Yeah, actually when my cat died (at home, sitting next to me, old age etc) i was holding her when the RM set in. I still have nightmares about that.
@@ciciwoods4556 you won't. Bodies in funerals are pumped full of preservatives basically to keep you from decomposing and smelling like death so no bloat, no gas, no farting or other explosion
Or audibly moaning mid-funeral.
"Oh, sweet Cici, such a loving, gentle so--"
"uuuuUUUUUHHhhhn"
@@BeckBeckGo Oh my goodness, that sounds horrible.
@@BeckBeckGo holy shit, that's gross, I'm sorry.
(Decomposed body farts)
12th century peasant: it's the Devil's doing!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ciciwoods4556 don't be worried about farting at your funeral! Donate as many organs as you possibly can, and be thoroughly embalmed, and you won't need to fart at your funeral. Corpse gas emissions are from the decomposition process, so if decomposition is arrested, as with embalming, then there won't be any emissions.
@@LiliAquinas I agree donate your organs but the idea of embalming needs to stop being pushed. It’s terrible for the environment and does little good for the dead body. If your goal is preservation embalming doesn’t do that…it can make a corpse look more lively because of the color but a skilled mortician can give the same effect with corpse makeup and often times your loved one will look more like them selves this way. On top of that embalming wouldn’t do anything to stop your corpse from farting because by the time Oregon’s would’ve been donated and a person would’ve made it into a casket for a viewing pressure and gases would’ve been released through incisions removing organs. And if your body is stored properly and cooled even if there is no incision there shouldn’t be a buildup of gas because decomposition moves slowly in cooler temperatures.
@@muffinrave I agree with nearly everything you said!
My reply to Cici was tongue in cheek.
Imagine their horror if they knew we donated organs
lmao. ancient people would see us now as aliens. literally a fantasy as reality. imagine one of these people seeing a modern hospital. they would think they're hallucinating a fever dream
@@BigHotSauceBoss69 they'd think they're in the afterlife! Lol. Even better, imagine a huge burly viking standing inside a modern hospital:
Musclehead viking: Is this... valhalla? IT MUST BE. *tears* I MADE IT MUMMA, I MADE IT TO VALHALLA *sobs*
21st century receptionist: um.. are you alright sir?
Damn, heart donations would be like mind/soul transfer for them.
@@JohnYoo39 there is some evidence to that.
@@tuathadesidhe1530 no there isn't??
I love how he is so active and excited lol
Eyes like those and you better stay
Love your pfp
Yea He does a good job
Tony is always super enthusiastic and excited about everything lol
Agreed. His energy is infectious
The increase in tony content is incredible
@Celto Loco Where is his new stuff?
@@ashleelarsen5002 It's weekly, darlin :)
@@eddiesroom1868 sweeeeet
Them not wearing a mask while dealin that rotting pig makes me anxious somehow
Pretty stinky
Lol my thoughts too. When they cut it open a bit I was just imagining that it was letting out all these gross corpse gases, I was like “omg protect yourselves!!”
@@BlueGeen Then people wonder why we are dealing with viruses and shit.
@@LG141602 Viruses don't linger in weeks-old dead stuff. Bacteria does. Believe it or not, viruses need animals, including humans, to stay alive. They can't replicate without a living host. Those individual viruses that kill their hosts will be the ones that don't replicate enough to last much longer, and those that don't kill their hosts will replicate and continue to thrive for a while. That leads to a virus evolving into something less likely to kill.
So a pig that's been dead for a few weeks won't have viruses that are still alive.
You can't get sick from a dead body, especially one that's been dead for three weeks.
This is basically miasma theory versus germ theory.
People would “commit suicide”, and get buried instead of executed... and then rise from the ground as the effects wore off from the poison or whatever. These could have been “staged suicides”, or at least there had been a history of them, so people were being more thorough against those possibly trying to escape from execution.
Very good point. Wish they included that in the documentary
Imagine of Romeo and Juliet lived because of that and people saw glimpses of them, while some members of their family started falling sick.
@@andreahl3494 that would be a very interesting sequel!
Florence Wood....
You really believe that people can survive being buried alive?
@@fabledfantasty7343
It's happened before, especially if there's any kind of surrounding barrier like a box or something. They didn't always bury deeply in the ground, either.
I'm amazed he wasn't puking over the smells. I've smelled decomposing flesh and its hard not to feel ill
Me too. A body was found one street from my house. Nothing smells worse.
"I actually feel quite a lot better.."
"Nope. Time to go" 😂😂
me to lol
I am not death yet- Monty Python and the Holly grail scene
Early man trying to make sense of the natural world. Thank goodness they did, or what would we watch on CZcams??!! Lol
Ikr? I love these vids, but what I love even more is living in an era that allows me to just kick back and have all this wondrous knowledge at my fingertips
I don't think we understand it all, rather there are laws and ethical standards. But there are still many similar things if not worse going on behind closed doors. Not published and shared openly.
EXACTLY!!! 😂😂😂
@@beautifulcrazey7713 So true
Death is only the beginning.
lmao they were having such a good time telling spooky stories at that castle I love it
A lot of people used to be accidentally buried alive when they were thought to be dead, so maybe its out of the fear that the ‘dead’ really will rise up
Yeah, or, in the case of the Victorians at least, they actually knew they were fucking up. They would tie strings to the corpse's fingers. The string was attached to a bell near the grave. Then if the bell rang, the cryptkeeper knew to dig them up. Fast.
It's apparently where the phrase "dead ringer" comes from.
This would be a good Halloween episode.
Dope username.
OMG I, thought this said "medical cannabis", ... Lol wrong show.
Me too. So weird.
Lmfao
Me to
Welcome to Baldrick, I am sharing with 'the moms' as soon as she awakes, entitled "Change is Good" lol
Same, yet still I watch 😂
Expert talking about ‘Hamlet’
Cameraman: ooo look a ladybug!
I was watching this while making dinner. The part where they dug up the pig began while I was cutting up cooked chicken. I'm not sure I am ever going to be able to eat chicken again. I really should have known better than to watch something with cannibalism in the title around mealtime.
Sometimes lessons are learned the hard way
I'm eating ice cream and having a great old time lol
Ya know bc they didnt have enough to worry about already. Their whole idea about death was more familiar than ours so maybe it's not so strange they had trouble separating life from death.
There is a charm in Baldrick teaching history.
There is, however, a distinct lack of cunning plans.
@@JohnYoo39 And were are the turnips??
Love these Tony Robinson docs
There my favorite
He really gives it life
I love Tony Robinsons' intrusive thought..."Can I try it?" "I dunno why I even asked that" I was cackling
Oh wow. I thought that would be a nice video to watch during lunch
British tv is for ppl with strong stomachs
Innit?
Meat is meat
I'm watching it with breakfast, and it is awesome!
the Gods and Monsters series is my absolute favorite!!!
Me, an atheist, needing some Jesus after thinking that powerful people were making some nasty chemistry with organs and consuming it.
I'm a celt and I know u feel
Not an atheist, but yes.
Lol glad I always believed in God and never followed religion. I tried to be 'rational' about it, then I dove down the conspiracy rabbit hole
Equally horrified pagan, here 😳🤚
They still do..........it never ended.
Literally everybody's ancestors were what is referred to as PAGAN! It's not a BRIT thing....
Everything but SCIENCE still is Pagan.
Science is still pagan... look up how they shiftem magic for science lol 😆 part of the gread deception in the bible... pharmakia is scorcery which os also where we get pharmaceutical and intersting secrecy is linked to drugs and what are pharmaceuticals also called 🤔 drugs... and don't get me started on the spiritual practices of early scientists... look up scientism tge religion behind science
@@makeracistsafraidagain So, County Fermanagh in England has soil that, for the longest time, the villagers would take a handful of the soil on the church grounds and put it in their pillows at night if they had headaches or other ailments. Now we know why, to quote Dr. Garry Quinn "When we brought the soil back to the laboratory we found a new species of streptomyces that had never been discovered before and it contained many antibiotics and some of these antibiotics actually killed some multi-resistant pathogens"(www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-46651702#:~:text=An%20ancient%20folk%20remedy%20from,in%20Boho%20can%20cure%20infections.)
What that tells me is that paganism has always been science.
Now we have the tools to quantify WHY.
Not all Absolute History videos are captivating but this episode was extremely well informed and well narrated by Tony. This deserves so much more likes than it's gotten. Great episode. Thank you Tony and AH
Wait...
*This isn’t about weed, not even a little bit...*
Medical cannibalism sounds like you could legally eat humans with a medical pass.
The cannibal version of a MMJ card huh? 😂
The narrator is so impassioned and good natured when the most morbid subjects come up, it warms my heart. My favorite part is when he makes himself an impromptu Richard III and goes all in.
"That wasn't bad, was it?"
"Very good!"
He's just so pleased with himself, I have to smile with him!
Edit: And an honorable mention goes to about 34 minutes, "This is coming away really nicely! I thought I would be no good at this, but I've got loads and loads of shavings already! ( ╹▽╹ )" in reference to shaving pieces off the skull of a pig.
edit again: you know what, there's too many beautiful moments. I can't list them all. I probably watched the part three times where our dear narrator gently dabbed a tiny bit of oil in the general direction of his groin, and I all but lost my mind at the Monty Python-like exchange when he said "I'm feeling quite well actually" and the man fulfilling the role of the priest told him no.
Obviously, this man is more than a national treasure, because I'm American.
As someone who'd only ever seen Tony Robinson as Baldric prior to these historical shows, it struck me as odd to see him driving a car. I know it shouldn't, but there it is.
I've been binging the heck out of these and just now realized this is Baldrick! ♥️
Oh. My. God.
I KNEW he sounded too familiar! Just couldn't figure out where I'd seen him though
As a Biology undergrad I dissected all kinds of creatures, and I'm kind of fascinated by decomposition in general, so a program like this is my jam. But that pig pushed me to my limit, and it's only on a screen, LOL!!
Feels weird eating pork watching that part...Had to confirm what I was eating a few times >
I know they can't get a contagious disease from breathing in rotten pig bacteria, but wouldn't you have been flunked out of class for not masking up? It BUGS me OUT, lol!!!
@@widowrumstrypze9705 Would you believe I rarely even wear gloves when dissecting? If I have any cuts on my fingers then the choice is obvious, but otherwise I go without. I'm allergic to latex and the vinyl alternatives hinder dexterity such that I'm more likely to drop utensils or even give myself new cuts. And I can't explain why, but somehow gross stuff feels even grosser through a squishy barrier. I'd rather just work with my bare hands; mindfulness not to touch anything before thorough washing kicks in automatically, so that's what I do.
Honestly as an ex-catholic I really like how they presented the last rites and ideas about death and the body... as weird. Because it is super weird from an outside perspective, and so often documentaries just dance around the more grisly bits for fear of offending. But the transubstantiation, the beliefs of the apocalypse and judgemsnt day and bodies resurrecting... they're WILD and I'm so glad this show touched on that.
Gruesome but excellent video. I love Tony doing these vids!
I love this guy. I wish i had a teacher like him as a kid. I might've graduated.. Lol
I immediately recognized the host's voice. I was like "is that Baldrick from Blackadder?!" And then I looked at the host and I recognized his facial features. This guy is the actor who played Baldrick in Blackadder.
Why does the host feel the need to act everything out like this XD? Actually made me laugh and took away from the seriousness of the events.
Hes like a drunken clown hey hahahah
I love it haha. He's just f*cking excited by history. Have to appreciate the enthusiasm 👌🏻
@Joseph Barocio I didn't realize it was him! Baldric?
I love midevil stories & history. Recently findng out my ancesters are British & Scottish makes it more fascinating.
British, Scottish and Welsh
Medical cannibalism is still practiced: WI-38, MRC-5, and the like...
YESSS GIRL 👏🏻
Except we're not eating them, we're injecting them...
Not just inject they use in our food production as well
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senomyx
Also adrenochrome is a thing patents.google.com/patent/US4501923A/en
Isn't MRC 5 the DNA restructuring ?
43:58 this poor child is watching out his car window, traumatized after seeing a dead person wheeled out into the square .
In Vietnam, I've been told, the two big toes of a corpse are tied together before burial. If the corpse reanimates, it won't be able to walk around. The Vietnamese person who told me this was known to be a bit of a joker, so I don't know if it's true.
That is absolutely an old practice that is still carried out today.
We're weird. Confirmed.
Anyone else watching in a snowstorm ?
Watching in a California rain storm.
Yes. From Northern Maine. Snowing right now.
Raining in Stuttgart, Germany
Rain storm in South America, Suriname
I'm bummed in Boston.
Where's all the snow??
That story about the guy who didn't get the sacrament was the most amusing thing I'd heard this year.
Preparation for the best possible death...somehow that reminds me of the dying scene in Soylent Green movie.
“Shall I try it…. I don’t even know why I asked” 😂
Love Shakespeare...however wasn’t too pleased with my character in “merchant of Venice”🤣🤣🤣
This was a great video!
Intriguing stuff, the second story is a bit reminiscent of the strigoi legends.
Which are some of the most interesting of myths/legends
lol read cannabis but that´s also fun
Same here. I realized right away it wasn’t about cannabis but still watching
Curious if bridal veils have any of the same superstitious origins
Look up origins of the bridal veil. I saw a couple of interesting results.
Lol the title says “was” like this ended at some point and that the royal families all just live super naturally long.
I like watching this guy talk about history while walking
props to him for always doing these experiments
Did anyone else see the kid in the van, looking on as they carted a "corpse" along the road? o.O
Okay... I can only see Baldrick from Black Adder here. How ever... How is your lord? Is Edmund fine? 😂😂
I need more of this show, so grotesque and fascinating!
Ditto
Everyone seems to be a in rush and frantically moving around hahahaha
These are always so interesting! Tony always makes it so fun to watch too 😄
He does! I think he and Dr. Lipscomb are my favorite hosts on this channel.
@@boudicaastorm4540 Yes! She's great too! 🙂
Gotta love farting corpses, silent but deadly 😂
I just realized, this guy is Baldrick from Blackadder !
11:50 hahahaha 😂😂😂😂
I Love Tony Robinson! he is so good! wish I could be a part of his life as a friend!
I just realized that human have always been ignorant and superstitious, its not just a new qanon phenomenon😂
We've always sought meaning in things, and questioned things that were wrong or didn't make sense.
@@made-line7627 idk Madeline, humans i think as modern humans go evolve slowly (dark ages) but then we recently past 150 years have become this ultimate species of sophistication especially last 20 years since computer tech and cell tech evolved. Before that i can't help but think we were stupid war mongering (even worse) attacking neighbors and being brutal against women and children since time immoral
Well Done! lol! Always enjoy Tony's historical documentaries.
I’m always tickled by Tony Robinsons reenactments🤣
What's curious to me about the mutilation of the corpses is how it intersects with Christian beliefs. Along with Jesus rising from the dead in the Bible, he also was said to have raised others from the dead, such as Lazarus. So I would think that a reanimation would have been considered a holy thing? that maybe God or Jesus was raising new corpses for some reason the common folk didn't understand? I'm confused as to how there came to be a negative connotation with random peasants rising from the dead if it was portrayed as a positive thing in the Bible. All I can think of is that it had to do with the unpleasant look of the bodies, compared with whatever artwork of the time portrayed a risen Jesus or Lazarus- I've never seen an historical piece of art that portrayed Jesus looking like a dead body. In any case, it's interesting trying to figure out how people back then would have reconciled such things in their thoughts.
I'd also never heard about people drinking the blood at executions, that's shocking to me, but certainly would have made sense to people at the time I suppose.
This is my favorite absolute history video 😂
Consider giving the old 1940's Yiddish horror film "Der Dybbuk" a watch for the European Jewish superstitions on this subject.
As an America... during one of the driving sense I panicked for a second like "nooo that's the wrong side of the road! In the rain! Going into a blind corner!" .. and immediately realized I'm being dumb.
I need glasses! I thot it said medical cannabis.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wait, this is a common error- the AVERAGE lifespan was in the 30s, but it's pulled down by so many people dying in childhood. Infant mortality was just astonishing. If you made it to 15 you had a good chance of making it to 60 or so. I'm surprised and disappointed that a history channel would make that kind of error.
this is amazingly interesting. Love Tony Robinson
I love how the British also ate mummies and corpses through corpse powder.
Anyone else think that mummy is kinda cutesy? I know it's weird, but icant help but think it's like they're smiling, and the lil teeth poking out gives it a cute lil appearance almost... I know, I'm weirded out with myself too.
I agree. It IS kind of cute
This was perhaps the best in-depth, thought provoking story on death and the history of death from centuries ago up until now! Quite fascinating actually! EXCELLENT job thank you!
*digging up a dead pigs body* "I've never done anything like this before" well I would hope not lol
Gloriously over-the-top!
I thought this was titled medical cannabis and was confused for much longer than I should have been
Ingesting in a little non-medical cannabis, are we? :D
This is such an interesting way to inform about history! I love the hands-on demonstrations and the funny comments. History comes to life this way! Thank you, and greetings from Berlin Germany 🤗👍
Well this explains british cuisine
Oh my Gods. It's Baldrick.
The only thing you have to kill twice is a Zombie preferably with a Barret M95 Chambered in .50BMG 😎👍
Tony is my favorite for these. He's so adorable
" before he was arrested, he committed suicide in prison " What???
As a child I had a very vivid dream which I still remember today: Some friends and I had discovered a concrete sarcophagus sitting at the end of a neighbor's driveway. We either (somehow) opened it or disturbed it, and this unleashed a plague- caused by the spotted skeleton-thing which had been inside! The last part of the dream I remember was after most people had succumbed, when I was hiding under a table in the kitchen, and this thing- like a spotted skeleton- bends down to look. (That's what this plague did: it turned you into some kind of a spotted-skeleton-thing.) 😏 lol
You should add more story to this & send it to creepy pasta.
Well.. we still do this today in some forms. I've donated plasma to make medicine for others. 🤷♀️
The difference being what they did was irrational poppycock and what we do now is scientifically proven to work, but I get your point
38:13 Most people would *not* be dead by their mid-30s. Infant mortality was incredibly high back then, and all those dead babies brought the average life expectancy down. If you made it to adulthood, you'd probably have a fairly normal (by our standards) lifespan ahead of you.
24:15 Making it harder and harder to believe that this ain't a death cult xD
Can't get an afterlife before dying lol
ahh, this poor actress, her big moment to read Shakespeare on TV, is totally upstaged by Tony!!
This is the third episode of this series I'm watching, and somehow Tony always brings a dead pig in. I think I'm gonna turn vegetarian.
You get so angry.
"Ah!" - Tony Robinson
Ik it’s the wrong video, but I’m on a marathon. Who would eat the ‘sin eaters’ bread?
It was popular because they didn’t have enough food at times.
I came here to make sure they didn’t mean medical cannabis lol
I came here for medical cannibalism.
bri'ish people love steaks