Episode 116: Something Blue (ad-free) (Patreon)

No one likes to be sick, and yet it is one of the most dependable things in life. We will all, at some point, become ill, and when we do, the most important thing in our world will be recovery and wellness. Many simply wait for nature to take its course, but history is full of takes of those who have taken it a bit too far.

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Further Reading

1. “The Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies—While Alive,” Atlas Obscura, October 2016, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sokushinbutsu.
2. Bess Lovejoy, “The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death,” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 28 Oct. 2014, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/doctor-who-starved-her-patients-death-180953158.
3. Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: The True Story of an American Doctor and the Murder of a British Heiress (Warner Books 1997).
4. James Ross Gardner, “Exquisite Corpses,” SeattleMet, 23 March 2012, https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2012/3/23/butterworth-mortuarys-exquisite-corpses-april-2012.
5. Katherine M. Ramsland, Inside the Minds of Healthcare Serial Killers: Why They Kill (Praeger 2007).
6. Meg van Huygen, “Pike Place's Butterworth Building Has Pretty Much Been Creepy since Day One,” Curbed Seattle, 31 Oct. 2018, www.seattle.curbed.com/2018/10/31/18048486/pike-place-butterworth-haunted-history.
7. Teresa Nordheim, Murder and Mayhem in Seattle (The History Press 2016).