Oh To Be Alive! Medical Mistakes and Meat Showers

Hello Deathlings, 

Today's video brings you two troubling tales: one you have ALL been asking about and one well, I just wanted to talk about. 

We're talking about the case of how Timesha Beauchamp was taken to the funeral home instead of the hospital (truly troubling) and my favorite weather story, the Kentucky Meat Shower (troubling like when your weird cousin asks if he can chew your gum "after you're done with it"). 

The pairing may be odd, but I hope you like it. 

Beauchamp's story feels like media "click bait" to me – focusing on the "HORROR" of the funeral home rather than the genuine horror of how a living human being was treated. You don't  just miraculously "wake up" at a funeral home; you don't narrowly avoid being embalmed ALIVE. A myriad of errors, oversights, and BAD JUDGEMENTS happen and you end up being mistaken for a corpse. It's a twisty-turny story that highlights how poorly certain people are treated by the medical establishment. 

The other story, the Kentucky Meat Shower, is exactly how it sounds. Meat. Shower. Happened in Kentucky. BOOM. 

So I hope you enjoy this little jaunt down the path of what's capturing my attention at the moment. Plus we tried a little something new with the format. Thoughts? 

And it is SPOOKY SEASON so expect another doozy of a video this month – one that I've been dying to tell you all for a while. 

'Tis the season, deathlings! 

From an appropriate social distance,

Caitlin 

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