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The secret life of the death – woman gives birth in a coffin

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The Secret Life of the Death –

Woman Gives Birth in a Coffin

by Andrea Schütze     |     Munich 09/01/2021

 

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Well known is the fact that many women had not survived their pregnancies. But did you actually know what happens after the mother´s death with mother and child? Did you know that it could have come to a “birth” post mortem? Not? Well then read this article about a case of coffinbirth in Bologna.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-case-coffin-birth-seen-medieval-grave-180968612/

Here is the original publication in:
World Neurosurgery 113 (2018), p. 78-81.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1878875018303140

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