We asked a mortician: What’s the worst way to die?

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If we had to choose the way we died, we probably wouldn’t choose the medieval form of torture known as scaphism. In our ongoing quest to have our biggest questions about death answered, we asked mortician and founder of The Order Of The Good Death Caitlin Doughty about the worst way to die. In the video above, she tells us about scaphism, a tortuous form of death involving milk, honey, and maggots.

 
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