Seen in Print

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Most banks want to be first.

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Here is a bank that is satisfied with being second.

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And then there is the fifth third bank.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[MurphOnMillerAve]

I can’t even make one up that addresses that cage-covering. I just don’t get it at all.
But, I don’t really need to. If it gives comfort to the deceased’s bereaved, then that’s all I need to know.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I can’t even make one up that addresses that cage-covering. I just don’t get it at all.
But, I don’t really need to. If it gives comfort to the deceased’s bereaved, then that’s all I need to know.

Maybe it's a threat response action?

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During the late-18th and 19th centuries, grave robbing became big business across Great Britain and the U.S. The fact that certain medical schools would pay for fresh corpses only fueled the practice. People used many ways in which to protect their dead.

In order to protect the body before burial, friends would be assigned to work in shifts sitting in the same room as the corpse so as not to leave it alone.

After burial, the families would hire or organize a group to watch cemeteries at night or, if financially able, would use a mortsafe to protect the grave. This was a cage made of iron that covered the grave until the body was decomposed enough to no longer be valuable to medical schools.

Reference: www.thefreedictionary.com/Mortsafe

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This one seems to still be present - slow decayer? Suspected vampire?

[robert.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortsafe

[Rufus T. Firefly]