Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

For many, death is a source of great anxiety.

We can't comprehend what awaits us on the other side, and so we worry about what's going

to happen to us in the afterlife.

For others, death is a comfort.

American artist and poet, Joe Brainerd, once jokingly wrote, death has a very black reputation

but actually to die is a perfectly normal thing to do.

And he was right.

Death happens every day and eventually it happens to every single person on earth, yet we still

fear it.

Not Sarah Bernhardt, though.

She not only was unafraid of death, it influenced how she lived her life.

Henrietta Rosine Bernhard was a French actress born in 1844, although she changed her name

for the stage when she was around 18 years old.

Her mother was a courtesan with many powerful clients, such as dukes, politicians, and

other high-powered individuals.

Bernhardt took to the theatrical lifestyle from a young age.

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