Casket-a-go-go, Part 2
Invention
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Sure, caskets and coffins are essentially just containers for the dead -- but we stash far more than our corpses inside them. We also pour in a generous helping of human anxiety, hope and magical thinking. In this three-part exploration of Invention, Robert and Joe consider the nature of caskets and look at some of the stranger designs from human history.
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