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"If I ever die from COVID, please know my dying wish is that.... (Original Post) ehrnst Jul 2020 OP
Sort of morbid but funny. I chuckled reluctantly when I read it. brush Jul 2020 #1
☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ Thekaspervote Jul 2020 #2
I snorted drmeow Jul 2020 #3
Morbid is often funny. paleotn Jul 2020 #7
Granted! mdbl Jul 2020 #4
Or Rebl2 Jul 2020 #5
No, cremation would destroy the virus central scrutinizer Jul 2020 #13
I laughed so hard I cried! Silver1 Jul 2020 #6
Need to update my will. paleotn Jul 2020 #8
This very thing has been tried and succeeded! RobertDevereaux Jul 2020 #9
Sort of the modern military equivalent of "Fire For Effect", yes? A HERETIC I AM Jul 2020 #10
Right there with ya Augiedog Jul 2020 #11
This made me laugh. This is where we're at. LuckyLib Jul 2020 #12

RobertDevereaux

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9. This very thing has been tried and succeeded!
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 09:18 PM
Jul 2020

Soldier corpses catapulted into a walled city, bringing the Black Death to Italians, who shipped it back into Western Europe.

“Limited historical evidence suggests that the army used catapults to hurl their dead over the walls of the city upon the besieged residents and this directly lead to the spread of infection and the successful ousting of the Genoese. Fleeing Genoese who were able to leave by sea took the plague with them back to Italy. It is also proposed that this was the start of the Black Death of 1347-1350 in Europe. Could this have happened? Did the corpse missiles work? Was this the start of germ biowarfare and the primary cause of the Black Death?”

http://www.montana.edu/historybug/yersiniaessays/broughton.html

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