What to ask in the afterlife of a dead man. Souls of the Dead: Life After Death

Thanks to the progress of medicine, the resuscitation of the dead has become almost a standard procedure in many modern hospitals. Previously, it was almost never used.

In this article, we will not cite real cases from the practice of resuscitators and stories of those who themselves suffered clinical death, since a lot of such descriptions can be found in books such as:

• "Closer to the Light"
• Life after life
• "Memories of Death"
• "Life at death" (
• "Beyond the threshold of death" (

The purpose of this material is to classify what people saw in the afterlife and present what they told in an understandable form as proof of the existence of life after death.

What happens after a person dies

“He is dying” is often the first thing a person hears at the moment of clinical death. What happens after a person's death? At first the patient feels that he is leaving the body and a second later he looks down at himself hovering under the ceiling.

At this moment, for the first time, a person sees himself from the outside and experiences a huge shock. In a panic, he tries to attract attention to himself, scream, touch the doctor, move objects, but as a rule, all his attempts are in vain. Nobody sees or hears him.

After some time, the person realizes that all his senses remained functional, despite the fact that his physical body is dead. Moreover, the patient experiences an indescribable lightness that he had never experienced before. This feeling is so wonderful that the dying person does not want to return back to the body.

Some, after the above, return to the body, and this is where their excursion into the afterlife ends, someone, on the contrary, manages to get into a kind of tunnel, at the end of which light is visible. After passing a kind of gate, they see a world of great beauty.

Someone is met by relatives and friends, some meet with a bright creature, from which emanates great love and understanding. Someone is sure that this is Jesus Christ, someone claims that this is a guardian angel. But everyone agrees that he is full of goodness and compassion.

Of course, not everyone manages to admire the beauty and enjoy the bliss. afterlife. Some people say that they fell into gloomy places and, returning, describe the disgusting and cruel creatures they saw.

ordeal

Those who returned from the "other world" often say that at some point they saw their whole life in full view. Each of their actions seemed to be a randomly thrown phrase and even thoughts flashed before them as if in reality. At this moment, a person was reconsidering his whole life.

At that moment there were no such concepts as social status, hypocrisy, pride. All the masks of the mortal world were thrown off and the man appeared before the court as if naked. He couldn't hide anything. Each of his bad deeds was displayed in great detail and it was shown how he affected those around him and those who were hurt and suffering by such behavior.

At this time, all the advantages achieved in life - social and economic status, diplomas, titles, etc. - lose their meaning. The only thing that is subject to evaluation is the moral side of actions. At this moment, a person realizes that nothing is erased and does not pass without a trace, but everything, even every thought, has consequences.

For evil and cruel people, this will truly be the beginning of unbearable internal torment, the so-called, from which it is impossible to escape. The consciousness of the evil done, the crippled soul of one's own and that of others, becomes for such people like an "unquenchable fire" from which there is no way out. It is this kind of judgment over deeds that is referred to in the Christian religion as ordeals.

Afterworld

Having crossed the line, a person, despite the fact that all the senses remain the same, begins to feel everything around him in a completely new way. His sensations seem to start to work one hundred percent. The gamut of feelings and experiences is so great that the returnees simply cannot explain in words all that they had a chance to feel there.

From the more earthly and familiar to us in terms of perception, this is time and distance, which, according to those who have been in the afterlife, flows there in a completely different way.

People who have experienced clinical death often find it difficult to answer how long their post-mortem state lasted. A few minutes, or several thousand years, it made no difference to them.

As for the distance, it didn't exist at all. A person could be transported to any point, to any distance, just by thinking about it, that is, by the power of thought!

The surprising point is that not all of the resuscitated describe places similar to heaven and hell. Descriptions of the places of individual individuals simply stagger the imagination. They are sure that they were on other planets or in other dimensions and this seems to be true.

Judge for yourself word forms like hilly meadows; bright green of a color that does not exist on earth; fields bathed in wonderful golden light; cities indescribable in words; animals that you will not find anywhere else - all this does not apply to descriptions of hell and paradise. People who visited there did not find the right words to intelligibly convey their impressions.

What does the soul look like

In what form do the dead appear before others, and how do they look in their own eyes? This question is of interest to many, and fortunately those who have been abroad have given us the answer.

Those who have been aware of their out-of-body experience report that it was difficult for them to recognize themselves at first. First of all, the imprint of age disappears: children see themselves as adults, and old people see themselves as young.

The body also changes. If a person had any injuries or injuries during his lifetime, then after death they disappear. Amputated limbs appear, hearing and vision return, if it was previously absent in physical body.

Meetings after death

Those who have been on the other side of the "veil" often say that they met there with their deceased relatives, friends and acquaintances. Most often, people see those with whom they were close during life or were related.

Such visions cannot be considered a rule; rather, they are exceptions that do not occur very often. Usually such meetings act as an edification to those who are still too early to die, and who must return to earth and change their lives.

Sometimes people see what they expected to see. Christians see angels, the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, saints. Non-religious people see some kind of temples, figures in white or young men, and sometimes they see nothing, but feel "presence".

Soul communion

Many resuscitated people claim that something or someone communicated with them there. When they are asked to tell what the conversation was about, they find it difficult to answer. This happens due to the language they do not know, or rather slurred speech.

For a long time, doctors could not explain why people do not remember or cannot convey what they heard and considered it to be just hallucinations, but over time, some returnees were still able to explain the mechanism of communication.

It turned out that there people communicate mentally! Therefore, if in that world all thoughts are "heard", then we need to learn here to control our thoughts, so that there we will not be ashamed of what we involuntarily thought.

Cross the line

Almost everyone who has experienced afterlife and remembers her, talks about a certain barrier that separates the world of the living and the dead. Having crossed over to the other side, a person will never be able to return to life, and every soul knows this, even though no one told her about it.

This limit is different for everyone. Some see a fence or a fence at the edge of a field, others see a lake or sea shore, and still others see it as a gate, a stream or a cloud. The difference in descriptions follows, again, from the subjective perception of each.

After reading all of the above, only an inveterate skeptic and materialist can say that afterlife this is fiction. Many doctors and scientists for a long time denied not only the existence of hell and paradise, but also completely ruled out the possibility of the existence of an afterlife.

The testimonies of eyewitnesses who experienced this state on themselves drove into a dead end all scientific theories that denied life after death. Of course, today there are a number of scientists who still consider all the testimony of the reanimated to be hallucinations, but such a person will not be helped by any evidence until he himself begins the journey to eternity.

1.- Why at the moment of death some cry, others sing, and still others smile?

Answer : This question has three parts: first, it is known that a person cries at birth and cries at death. Secondly, there are cases when the dying person sings, remembering happy moments of his past, and thirdly, people smile (although this is not often), perhaps remembering pleasant scenes from their lives.

2.- Who orders the soul to leave the body so that the body can be buried?

Answer: At the moment when the dying man draws his last breath, the angel of death comes to his deathbed - their legions. The angel of the afterlife cuts off the silver cord or thread of life that connects the soul to the physical body. The dying person usually sees such an angel in the form of a ghost, and the scythe that appears to him is certainly real. This working tool serves precisely to ensure that this deity can cut off the thread of existence.

3.- What do the dead eat and pay?

Answer: We have a day of the dead in Mexico - it is celebrated on the second of November every year. On this day, people go to the cemetery, put lighted candles on the grave and put them in plates, pots, bowls, etc. food and drink that the deceased loved in life. It is the custom of many people to eat these leftovers afterward, and anyone with psychic sensitivity will notice that the vital principle is missing from these dishes. Simple people absolutely sure that their beloved deceased eats these products.

Without a doubt, the dead do indeed eat - but not the physical part of the food, but the ethereal, subtle, which cannot be seen with physical vision, but can be perceived with the help of clairvoyance; we must not forget that in every physical food there is an ethereal food easily digested by the dead.

Disembodied people can go to a restaurant of the physical world - they will greet the living, and the subconscious of those will answer them, they will ask for food, and it is obvious that the inner Ego of the owners of the restaurant will bring to the table mental forms similar to the dishes and food that is available in this institution. The disembodied will sit in the dining room, eat from these ethereal plates made of the matter of the mental world, pay with mental money and leave the restaurant. Under such circumstances, it is obvious that the dead continue to believe that they are alive, and this can be confirmed by any person who has developed clairvoyance and other soul faculties.

4.- Where do the dead live?

Answer: The first days after death, the dead live in the house or in the hospital where they died, and then, since they need to re-live the life that ended, they, of course, live in the places where they lived before.

5.- How do the dead dress?

Answer: The way they used to dress in life; they usually dress in the clothes in which they were buried.

6.- What amusements do the dead have?

Answer: Of course, the drunkard will continue to go to eateries, the moviegoer to the cinema, the gambler to gambling houses, the corrupt woman to where she lived, and the libertine to her.

7.- What sun shines on the dead?

Answer: The same sun that shines on the living shines on the dead, only the dead see colors that go beyond the solar spectrum. They see colors that the retina of the physical eye of mortal humans does not perceive.

8.- Are the dead washed? And what kind of water?

Answer: Obviously, they bathe in the same water as the living, only they use the water of the Fourth Dimension.

9.- Why do some people die faster than others?

Answer: Because there are people who are too attached to the world. Of course, they do not want to leave it, and they suffer in agony for many hours.

10.- What hope do the dead have?

Answer: Hopes are very diverse - it depends on the qualities of the deceased. The main hope of the miser - even after death - is to accumulate even more wealth, since his consciousness is asleep. The main hope of a man in love is to have women who will love him, adore him, idolize him. Home hope deep religious person– to enter the inexpressible worlds of light, etc.

11.- What does the soul seek after leaving the body?

Answer: The soul seeks what it loves: the mother seeks her son and sometimes she becomes visible; the husband is looking for his wife, if, of course, he adored her; and the one who buries treasures in the ground looks for them in the place where he left them, etc.

12.- Do the dead have organs of power as in the physical world?

Answer: Authorities exist in all corners of the universe, both among the living and the dead. For example, demons rule over dead souls living in the underworld; the inexpressible worlds are dominated by those who stand at the top of the hierarchical ladder. However, since the consciousness of people is in a dream, they continue to obey those authorities that were in the physical world.

13.- How they see dead world alive?

Answer: They see the same streets, the same cities, and the same people that they would see if they were alive.

14.- Why does the dead person not understand that he is dead?

Answer: The dead continues to believe that he is alive, because his consciousness is asleep, and it takes great effort to convince him that he does not belong to the world of the living. Since the dead see everything exactly as they saw it in life, of course they do not suspect that they have died.

15.- What do the dead do?

Answer: After death, people are engaged in the same activities as in life, since they do not suspect that they have died.

16.- The dead can move wherever they want, as in life?

Answer: The dead have complete freedom of movement throughout the universe and can visit any place.

17.- What light illuminates the dead?

Answer: They are illuminated by the astral light. This is the light that comes from the solar Nimbus and is attracted to the earth by the force of gravity and the heaviness of the atmosphere.

18.- Do people feel pain at the moment of death?

Answer: Death is painful for the young and pleasant for the old. It is like a fruit: when it is ripe, it falls under its own weight, but when it is still green, it does not fall, and one can say that it suffers when it is picked.

19.- Can the deceased recognize his body in the coffin?

Answer: The dead can see their body but do not recognize it because their consciousness is asleep and they never believe that it is their own body and think that it is another person's body.

20.- And if a person realized that he had died, could he return to his body before he was buried?

Answer: When the thread of life is cut, it is no longer possible to return to your body. AT this case, if a person realizes that he really died, he will either be terribly frightened or rejoice - it all depends on the moral state of the deceased.

21.- What comfort does the soul receive when the body dies?

Answer: The prayers of those who mourn serve as consolation for the disembodied. We need to pray for the dead.

22.- Are there predetermined days, hours and minutes of death?

Answer: Each person who comes into this world receives a supply of vital values; when this supply runs out, death occurs. It should be explained that we can accumulate these life values ​​and prolong our lives. Those who do not know how to accumulate them disincarnate very quickly.

23.- Can the dead take the living with them to the world of the dead?

Answer: We Gnostics learn to leave the physical body at will, then we can visit the world of the dead. The dead can also in some cases lead the souls of their friends. This happens most often during sleep, but after natural sleep, these people return to the physical world. This means that meetings with the dead take place during the sleep of the physical body.

24.- Are there planes, cars, trains in the world of the dead as in the physical world?

Answer: All inventions that exist in the physical world have come from world of the dead. These objects are, in essence, mental forms that disembodied humans can see, hear, feel, and touch.

The world of the living has always been interested in the world of the dead. In the myths, legends, fairy tales of all peoples, heroes always appear who were not afraid to look behind the curtain that separates the two worlds and see: what is happening behind it? But scientists perceived stories about a world inhabited by the dead as fiction. To believe in the reality of the existence of the world of the dead, they needed evidence, and they appeared.

At the end of the 20th century, scientists were literally bombarded with facts that it was hard to argue with - videotapes, on which it was no longer the hero of children's fairy tales and not a modern psychic who sees through walls, but any person could, as they say, see firsthand the existence of the world of the dead.

Since the end of the 20th century, almost simultaneously in different countries on TV screens, people began to see images of deceased relatives. Here, for example, is what happened to Elena Nikiforova from Novorossiysk on February 6, 1990: “I watched the Vremya program on TV. Suddenly, the screen was covered with stripes, and then appeared on it male face- as if in a haze. It was motionless - something like a photograph. I looked at him and screamed in horror. My brother Misha, who died in 1985, looked at me point-blank from the screen. A few seconds later, stripes ran across the screen again, and then the TV began to show the program again.

The deceased, more precisely, the deceased suddenly appeared on the TV screen in Riga. A large Latvian family gathered for a traditional memorial service for the mother of the head of the family. Relatives and friends of the mother kept arriving, and the apartment could no longer accommodate all those who sympathized with the grief of the family. It was decided to move the commemoration to the country, since it was not far from the city. Two days later, the family returned home, and then there was a meeting with a ghost that appeared on the TV screen. When the TV was turned on, the whitish face of the deceased grandmother clearly appeared on its screen.

In Russia, the first attempts to use modern electronic equipment to obtain images of the world of the dead were made by a group of St. Petersburg ufologists headed by V. Korobkov. In 1996, the researchers provided photographs from the "other world" to the participants of the Russian conference "Realities of the Subtle World". Several years passed, and the Penza researchers decided to repeat the experiments of their colleagues. But they went the other way. Instead of complicating electronic equipment, they began to combine its use with medieval magical rites.

With the help of ordinary household video equipment: a TV and a video camera, Sergey Volkov and Eduard Utenkov from the Logos Association for Non-Traditional Research in Penza managed to record the shadows of dead people on videotape.

It happened on December 27, 2002. First, the TV was tuned to the so-called "white ripples" - a channel free from broadcasts. A video camera was placed in front of him. Then, in full accordance with the ancient ritual, a luminous closed corridor was created - two mirrors were installed: one behind the TV, the second behind the camera. Thus, a closed video information network was obtained, into which the otherworldly “signal” from the invisible, otherworldly world fell into a trap. But, according to Penza researchers, this was not enough for the ghost to appear on the screen. A resonator was needed - an amplifier of the process, the use of which, as it were, pulled entities from the invisible, other world into the world of living people. For this, elements of ancient rituals were also used: things that belonged to the deceased or his hair and nails were placed between the video camera and the TV.

According to one of the researchers, Sergei Volkov, they have already managed to get the “shadows” of the dead on the screen: “They, these shadows, either appear in profile, then turn their heads, then disappear again. They do not have clear facial features, but only the contours of the nose and the back of the head. Upon closer inspection, we found a semblance of eye sockets. This phenomenon occurs in complete silence: neither a sound nor a signal from the next world can be fixed yet. It is impossible to perceive the world of the dead in the same way as ours. On the film you can see some landscapes, mountains and fields. But all this is “moulded from a different “test”, according to a technology alien to us. The other world constantly “trembles”. This is not a continuous space, but some kind of serpentine winding field in which the shadows of dead people periodically appear.

Why do people not see that they live surrounded by the "shadows" of the dead? Why do these "shadows" appear so rarely in the recorded videos? After all, today only the laziest are not engaged in video shooting. Moreover, this does not require a bulky movie camera, as at the end of the last century, now it is easily done using a miniature "advanced" mobile phone?

There can be many reasons. First, each of us perceives himself only as a body with a head, arms, legs. Representatives of the world of the dead may look completely different. According to the recollections of people who survived clinical death, they perceived themselves as small balls flying in different directions and easily passing through walls. In photographs, video filming, such balls are quite common, but they are considered as a defect in photographs or as annoying interference on video footage. Secondly, judging by the studies of scientists conducted in the so-called anomalous zones, for example, Khoper, energy objects, and representatives of the world of the dead can be attributed to them, must be shot on special photographic films or video equipment that allows you to reflect objects in the ultraviolet zone of the spectrum invisible to humans.

To get on videotape an image of not a black ball, ufologists call it a "black mark", and a person as he was before death, probably, some additional conditions must be met. In almost all cases, people saw their relatives on the TV screen, and especially those who died as a result of disasters. Most likely, this is not accidental. The transformation of a ball, which is a normal form of existence of people in the world of the dead, into an entity that outwardly resembles a person may require a large energy supply or some other additional conditions, for example, a passionate desire on the part of a representative of the world of the dead. If there is no such desire, then ancient magic rituals, worked out over many centuries, and maybe millennia, can help to force the essence to transform from a ball into a person, the energy significance of which we can only guess.

Mikhail Burleshin

The other world is also called the afterlife and is described as a spiritual state into which the souls of dead people fall. Since no one has yet returned from the other world, there are no facts about how it looks and what happens there, there are still many different versions.

What does the underworld mean?

Two main concepts are used regarding the nature of the other world. In the first case, it is perceived as a kind of spiritual phenomenon that has nothing to do with earthly life. What is important is the moral and ethical transformation of the soul, which gets rid of earthly passions and temptations. The other world in the first case is perceived as a degree of closeness to God, Nirvana, and so on.

Solving the mysteries of the other world, it is worth considering the second concept, according to which it has certain material characteristics. It is believed that there really is an ideal place where the soul goes after the death of the body. This option is associated with religions that involve the bodily resurrection of people. Moreover, in many holy scriptures you can find direct messages.

Does the other world exist?

Over the years of history, each world culture has formed its own traditions and beliefs. You can find a huge number of reports that other world exists, and many people have come into contact with it, for example, in their sleep, during near-death experiences, and in other ways. With absolute certainty, magicians and psychics speak about him. This topic could not help but be of interest to scientists, and they regularly conduct research to establish whether there is an other world.

Scientists about the other world

To understand if there is any way after death, people who survived and remember what they saw while their heart stopped were chosen as experimental subjects.

1. To prove whether belief in the other world has a right to exist, in 2000 two well-known European doctors conducted a large-scale study that made it possible to establish that many people saw the gate to either Paradise or Hell.
2. Other studies were conducted in 2008, and a third of the people studied assured that they could look at themselves from the outside.
3. Experiments have been carried out with the placement of sheets with painted symbols near people who survived clinical death, and none of the people who claimed to have left their body saw them.

Other World - Evidence

There are stories about the connection of people with the souls of dead people. As proof of the existence of the other world, it is worth telling about a spiritualistic session that was held at the National Laboratory for Psychical Research in Great Britain in 1930. Scientists wanted to get in touch with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. To confirm everything, a reporter was present at the session. When the ritual began, Air Captain Carmichael Irwin, who died that same year, got in touch and told his story using various technical terms. This was evidence of a possible connection with the other world.

Facts about the other world

Scientists tirelessly conduct research to prove or disprove the existence of other worlds. At the moment, it has not been possible to determine the exact facts, but the connection with the other world is proved by numerous messages from people from different parts of the world, a large number of photographs, the authenticity of which has been proven, and experiments with hypnosis and other techniques.

How is the underworld organized?

Since no human is yet reborn after death, there is no exact information to describe the place where souls live after death. Many, speaking about the afterlife, mean, and so different peoples has its own unique presentation:

1. Egyptian Hell. This place is ruled by Osiris, who weighs the good and bad deeds of souls. The hall where the judgment takes place is the whole vault of heaven.
2. Greek Hell. The entrance to the other world is closed by the black waters of the Styx, which encircle it nine times. You can cross all the streams on the spoon of Charon, who takes one coin for his services. Near the entrance to the abode of the dead is Cerberus.
3. Christian Hell. It is located in the center of the Earth. Sinners are tormented in a cloud of fire, on fiery benches, in a river of fire, and are subjected to other torments. Around live creatures of the other world.
4. Muslim Hell. It has similar features with the previous version. One of the stories of the Thousand and One Nights tells about the seven circles of hell. Sinners here are forever tormented in the fire, and they are fed with devil fruits from the Zakkum tree.

How to contact the other world?

Psychics and parapsychologists assure that it is possible to contact the souls of dead people. There are many options for communicating with the other world, up to the use of high technology.

1. "Electric Voices". For the first time, documentary filmmaker Friedrich Jürgenson heard the voices of his dead relatives on tape, and he decided to investigate this topic. As a result, it was possible to establish that voices are clearer when there are background noises, and the researchers concluded that the souls of dead people can synthesize vibrations into the sounds of their own voice.
2. Appearance on TV. There is a lot of evidence in the world that people, while watching various programs, saw images of their deceased relatives. An American electronics engineer went the furthest by developing a special antenna that allows not only to see the deceased daughter and wife, but also to hear their voices. Many such contacts with the other world were photographed, and the authenticity of some of the photographs was proven.
3. SMS. Many people, after the death of their relatives, received messages from them, but in most cases they were either empty or contained strange signs. Recently, programmers have come up with an application called "Ghost Stories Box", which scans the parameters of the surrounding space and picks up interference. So far, it cannot yet claim to be able to obtain 100% information.

How to get to the other world?

There is an easy way to travel to another world. In order for everything to succeed, and the portal to the other world to open, it is necessary to use consciousness in an unusual way. As a preparation, it is recommended to study clearly, your thoughts. It is important to represent the images as believable as possible. The fact that contact with the other world was established will be evidenced by animal fear and a feeling of discomfort. This is quite normal and nothing to be afraid of. There is some instruction on how to see the other world:

1. Before going to bed, lying in bed, you need to give your subconscious mind a clear task to hear a well-known musical composition, which will allow you to see images in colorful colors. Relax as much as possible.
2. Imagine how the soul exits through the body, and through the chest and arms. At the same time, breathing should stop and at the same time a surge of strength should be felt. Another important signal that everything is working out is the feeling that the body is burning with heat.
3. There is only one moment to penetrate into the other world - the period when a person has already practically fallen asleep, but at the same time he is still aware of himself in reality. It is important to order the subconscious mind to remember all the information and reproduce it during the waking period.

Do children see the other world?

It is believed that children from birth to 40 days can easily communicate with the other world, seeing, feeling and hearing dead people and various entities. This is due to the fact that the child has an ethereal shell around his physical body, which is a protection, and also gives a special fluid. In the future, children see the other world not so well, but contacts are permissible, since the consciousness is still pure and the aura is bright. If the child is baptized, then you can not be afraid of negative impact because the guardian angel will protect him.

Do cats see the other world?

Since ancient times, it has been believed that the cat is a magical animal. Such an animal has a huge aura that can respond to both positive and negative energy. Cats see the other world, so they should be used to protect the house from evil spirits. If the owner sees that the animal is looking at one place in the house and at the same time its posture is tense, then he sees spirits. Cats and the other world also interact through the brownie, so a person can use animals to establish contact with him.

“The life of the dead continues in the memory of the living,” said Cicero. But it happens that this “life” continues not only in memory, but right in front of your nose. How? We tell.

Chichikov & Co.

The plot described in the famous poem by Gogol, as you know, was suggested to the author by Pushkin. The business of buying up and selling dead souls was not uncommon in those days, but it acquired a particularly wide scope in the Moldavian city of Bendery. Alexander Sergeevich learned about him during his exile in Chisinau in 1820-1824.
In the aforementioned city, from the moment it was annexed to Russia and over the next few years, people suddenly stopped dying. At first it didn't bother anyone. But when the guardians of law and order began an investigation, it turned out that after joining Moldova, fugitive peasants from the central Russian provinces poured in. In order not to be recognized, they took the names of dead people, that is, the documents of the dead were simply sold to the living. A similar plot, perhaps creatively embellished, was told by Pushkin to Gogol.

Corpse Synod

IX-X centuries. The Roman papacy is going through a spiritual and political crisis. In less than a hundred years, 24 pontiffs have been replaced on the holy throne. Everyone pulled the church blanket over himself, strove to denigrate his predecessor and canceled his decrees. Our story is about how the struggle for power touched even the dead. Thus, Pope Formosus, elected in 891, actively intervened in the affairs of Constantinople, intrigued with regard to the French throne and cleared a place near the papal throne. The energy was enough for five years, after which the pope rested in the bose under unclear circumstances. Nine months later, another successor, Pope Stephen VI, decided to get even with the deceased.
They dug up the half-decomposed corpse, tied it to a chair and began interrogation. The deacon, who was hiding behind a chair, was responsible for the deceased. Formosa, of course, was condemned on all counts and sentenced to punishment: they cut off three fingers with which the pontiff made the sign of the cross, tore off papal clothes and dragged them through the streets of Rome, and then buried them in a mass grave for strangers. Later, black diggers removed the body and threw it into the Tiber, from where a certain monk fished it out and, finally, buried it in the ground. Subsequent pontiffs either canceled the sentence of Formosus, then again condemned him.

tomb raiders

In the 18th and 19th centuries, there was a very peculiar business in Britain: digging up recently buried bodies from graves for sale. These guys were called resurrectionists. Who needed a dead man? Yes, at least for doctors - for scientific activity. In addition, the whole industry for the "processing" of dead bodies has become the manufacture of all kinds of medicinal potions from them - from ointments to powders and tinctures.
Finally, in 1752, the British Parliament passed the Murder Act, allowing judges to replace the public display of the bodies of executed criminals with dissection (this was regarded as a "terrible" posthumous fate). But the “biological material” was still not enough, and the doctors had to cooperate with the body snatchers.
Surprisingly, the resurrectors acted almost legally, because the corpses were not anyone's property! Relatives had to take care of the safety of expensive bodies. Cage graves (mortseifs), tombstones made of heavy stone slabs, and “safe” coffins for the rich began to appear in cemeteries.
Only after the resurrectors moved from simply digging up the dead to suffocating the living - from that social stratum that they say "god forgotten" - did the authorities finally pass a bill that allowed medical universities to dissect the bodies of the deceased inhabitants of the so-called workhouses in which petty criminals and beggars.

Love before and after the grave

One of the most striking historical figures with a craving for "afterlife" passion was the Queen of Castile Juan I. She adored her husband Philip the Handsome with the passion of a woman who had lost her mind (she was nicknamed Juana the Mad). At first, the young husband treated his wife with warmth and tenderness, but he got tired very quickly and turned his attention to others. Juana was furiously jealous: she screamed, fought in hysterics, and once cut off one of the king's mistresses her luxurious hair. And when in 1506 Philip suddenly died, she became completely insane. For several years she carried her husband’s coffin with her everywhere, not wanting to part with him at all, and periodically opened the lid to hug the remains of her beloved. However, the queen's necrophilia is debatable - they say that the idea of ​​not burying the faithful was suggested to her by some monks who claimed that he could be resurrected. This did not happen, and about a year after his death, Philip was buried.

But modern "slaves of love" will surpass even the historical ones. In the 1930s, the story of the German microbiologist and immigrant Karl Tanzler von Kosel, who worked in one of the marine hospitals in Florida, spread around the world. There, this elderly man met a beautiful Cuban woman who had the romantically long name Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos and the tender age of 22 years. Helen, as Karl affectionately called the girl, was 32 years younger than him, suffered from tuberculosis and, despite the best efforts of the man, died a few months after they met. But Carl's love lived on. He built a mausoleum for his beloved, which he visited every evening, and after a couple of years he simply stole the girl’s body from there and “settled” it in his bedroom. The beloved was literally not the first freshness, so Karl had to fasten the crumbling bones with wire, stick a silk cloth soaked in wax instead of decayed skin, and glue a wig from the hair of the deceased on her head. He filled the chest cavity of the corpse with rags, and put on a dress and gloves on top.
In 1940 - about nine years after the girl's death - Dancer's cohabitation with the corpse was revealed. It became known that he put it next to him in bed every night and performed " marital debt”(a paper tube was found in Helen's vagina, which allowed Carl to enter into an intimate relationship with the dead). The corpse was taken away from the Dancer (for some reason they put it on public display in one of the morgues), and he himself was placed under arrest. But not for long. Soon after his release, he built himself a life-size effigy of Helen and attached her death mask to it. So he lived with him until his death in 1952.