Oh, and the burying alive stuff is pure crap. Look, people knew the difference between dead and alive people. We are the ones who are in such a hurry to harvest organs that we declare people dead based on fancy machines measuring brain waves and starve them to death if it suits our convenience.
They had to go with simple old vital signs. They waited until the heart and lungs stopped. Yes, it can happen that someone’s breathing and pulse slow down to be almost undetectable and then later the person thought dead revives, but it’s very rare, not common as this stupid piece asserts. And if the pulse and breathing really stop, then it doesn’t take too long before the person is irretrievably dead. They didn’t have electric paddles etc. to revive them.
So the idea that half the coffins had nail scratches is pure, simple outrageous BS, that only the credulously naive would believe. This hoary tale has been told around flickering camp fires for millennia, I’m sure, but even those who tell it know it’s crap.
As for digging up bodies, yes, they did that routinely. We think it’s macabre but that’s our problem. We are the ones so screwed and antsy about death that we ship our dead off to professionals to process. In 1500 the family washed and prepared the body for the wake and burial. They could tell whether the person was really dead or not. And they weren’t squeamish about exhuming the bodies after a number of years to reuse the burial space. That’s why they had charnel houses, to house the bones.
We are the ones so messed up about life and death that we can’t tell the difference and thus kill the innocent and excuse the guilty.
They knew death first hand, stared it in the face, and faced it with faith. We are so messed up because we’ve abandoned faith that we are scared to death of death.
We’re the fools.
These things are always garbage filled. Even the ones that deal with the 1950s!
As for thatched roofs. Good quality thatch is a great roof and so much cooler than the asphalt shingles of today.
You are apparently sadly misinformed about organ procurement practices in the 21st century. Since 2001, more organ donors have been living donors than cadaveric (dead). Most are related to the recipient, but more and more are directed donations from unrelated persons. Furthermore, with advances in organ preservation and harvesting, Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) is the most common method of cadaveric organ harvest. Brain death is still used as a criteria, but much less often than in the 70's and 80's.
Read a little and broaden your mind. It's fun.