Death as a business. Of body snatching, corpse fat and the hands of the dead. An instructive journey through time with the Black Widow.
With the charming Black Widow, who is straight out of Victorian times, dealing with death becomes a joyful experience. With humor and lightness of touch, she chats about what we all have to face one day. She lets us participate in a time when the end of life was a matter of course and families consciously said goodbye. She explains the scientific fields in which the dead body has been used in recent centuries. The fact that bodies represented a lucrative business becomes clear during this journey through time when the history of anatomy is examined in more detail. It also explores why dead hands were often found cut off in churches and why corpses were also often used in the field of art.
