death chair
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Even when the health authorities force immediate burial on account of danger from infectious diseases, the siling continues just the same with a dummy corpse in the death chair.
From Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by C. R. Moss
Accordingly, after a dramatic pause, to give stress to her next statement, she continued: 260 “There isn’t a death chair in the whole world can kill a cobbler.”
From Rose O'Paradise by Grace Miller White
Except in the case of infants or very small children the dead are not buried immediately, but are put into a death chair around which funeral rites are held.
From Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by C. R. Moss
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