Here, in this unassuming hospital, a place where doctors are supposed to make you better.

One doctor wants to make you dead.

Terror stocks the hulls,

formaldehyde forced through your veins.

You are a living corpse when you are

embalmed alive. Welcome back to Death in the afternoon, a podcast about all things mortal from the Order of

the Good Death. I'm Caitlin, a mortician and death

educator, and as always I'm joined by my fellow researchers and writers Louise Hung and Sarah Chavez.

Today's episode, Embalmed Alive.

At last, we are finally talking about zombies.

No, never. We will never be talking about zombies, Louise.

So today we are finally talking about that woman who was

embalmed alive though not gonna lie I feel kind of bad making fun of her I am not

making fun of the woman who died I'm making fun of her. I am not making fun of the woman who died. I'm making fun of the idea

that she was embalmed alive which she was not. Okay fine maybe she wasn't prepared for burial in the

traditional sense but isn't a nurse accidentally pumping

her body full of formaldehyde the basics of embalming?

I mean that's sort of what embalming is but more importantly that's not what happened.

We are about to go on another journey of debunking aren't we?

All aboard the Killjoy train.

I'm your conductor, Caitlin Chu. This incident happened in March of 2018. A woman

named Icaterina Fadiyev went into a hospital in Ullianosk, Russia to have ovarian cysts removed.

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