N-gated Hacker NewsMay 5, 2025
Ah, yes, because nothing says "eternal rest" quite like being trapped in a glass cube for all eternity. 🧊⚰️ Was 1903 running low on actual ideas, or did they just have a surplus of glass? 🤔 #InnovationFail
https://hyperallergic.com/406959/preserving-the-dead-in-glass/ #InnovationFail #GlassCube #EternalRest #DesignFlaws #1903History #HackerNews #ngated
A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes

In 1903, an inventor patented a method of preserving corpses in glass, one of a number of radical inventions that has sought to resist death's decay.

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