Ten years of life and death are vast, do not think, unforgettable, thousands of miles of lonely graves, nowhere to say desolate, even if they should not know each other, dusty, sideburns like frost.
This poem was composed by the Song Dynasty poet Su Shi to mourn his deceased wife, and I believe that many people are also touched by Su Shi's sincere feelings for remembering his deceased wife.
Last year, American psychologists once did a survey of statistics, listing a variety of negative events that may be encountered in life, the stress index or the probability of depression, of which the sudden death of a partner brings the greatest negative impact, which has exceeded the total impact of negative events such as unemployment, illness, and the cold war between husband and wife.
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When the love of a lifetime, sudden encounters and deliberate return to that world, generally although the number of mourning collapses, but mourning the lover is also to choose the normal way, looking at the photos or videos of the life alone sad, and even more regularly sweep the grave, sitting alone in front of the tomb to tell the pain of lovesickness and so on.
But 88 years ago, a doctor with a clear brain circuit, after the death of true love, he quietly transported her body home from the grave and used his mastery of embalming technology to turn the body into a wax doll.
The doctor stayed at home with the real doll for 7 years until the matter was revealed. Is this true love invincible, or is the brain circuit Qingqi?
Karl and Maria
The protagonist of the event is called Karl Kanzele, from Germany, who has been working as a radiologist in the United States, claims to have nine bachelor's degrees at the same time, and is also a brilliant inventor in the fields of medicine, architecture, science and so on.
In the late 1920s, when the employment environment in Germany was not optimistic, Karl took his wife and two daughters to the United States to seek a high-paying job. Carl was intelligent and licensed to be a doctor, and after arriving in the United States, he came to Kievs Hospital in Florida alone. Became a radiologist.
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Carl is usually not good at talking, because he has been separated from his wife for many years, his heart is lonely, his personality is lonely, and he can only work hard and immerse himself in some of his inventions every day.
People with reclusive personalities tend to have a strong sense of vanity, as does Karl, who added the suffix of a German aristocracy to his name in order to highlight his identity. Those who are not familiar with him will surely admire Karl, who has 9 degrees, an inventor, a doctor, and a German aristocrat.
The time came to the 1930s, although Karl was 53 years old, but the doctor's profession was relatively leisurely and the salary was higher, and Carl's life was very moist. But Karl and his wife have been separated for many years, and the relationship between the husband and wife has also died.
Several times in his dreams, he dreamed of a black-haired foreign woman, which also left a deep impression on her.
Cuban brunette woman
Carl then paid extra attention to the black-haired exotic woman, and in April 1930 he finally waited for the love of his life; a female patient named Maria Elena came to Carl's hospital for examination, and Carl couldn't believe his eyes, the woman was exactly the same as the person he had seen in his dream.
Maria was a Cuban with thick black hair, and Karl was captivated by Maria's beauty. Maria came to the United States from Cuba earlier with her parents and two sisters, and she became a famous beauty.
As an adult, Maria has been dancing at a local club. In 1926, Mary married her husband, but soon after the marriage, Maria and her husband broke down and separated for many years.
Maria came to the hospital for examination and treatment because Maria had an incurable disease at the time: tuberculosis, and Maria was only 21 years old at the time, which was equivalent to prematurely sentencing her to death.
Maria
Karl didn't think about it because of this fate, and he fell in love with Mary at first sight. Carl began to contact Maria's family, providing funds to use his knowledge and the hospital's medical equipment to treat Maria free of charge, some conventional and unconventional treatments just to save Maria's life.
Karl and Maria gradually became friends who had been separated by more than 30 years, and Karl often gave very expensive jewelry and clothing to Maria. Finally, Karl confided in Mary and proposed to Mary.
But Mary did not agree to Karl, perhaps because of her age, perhaps because she knew that she was the one who was dying, Maria resolutely refused Karl's marriage proposal, and this relationship was doomed to end.
Carl did everything he could to save Mary's life, but Mary died of illness in 1931. Carl was devastated and made a public promise to Mary's loved ones. Karl decided to finance a funeral for Mary and to build a luxurious mausoleum for Mary to honor her.
Karl was giving Mary a preservative treatment
At that time, Mary's family was in debt crisis and could not afford to bury Mary, so although her family was confused, they agreed to Carl's suggestion, and someone paid for Maria's funeral to build a mausoleum.
At that time, it was very popular to make a death mask for the deceased to record the last appearance of the deceased for the memory of the deceased's family.
That is, to record the true content of the deceased. For example, after Lu Xun's death, his Japanese friends made him a death mask. Carl was no exception, and he also made a reverse death mask for Mary.
Carl and Mary's Death Mask
Karl used the most effective anti-corrosion treatment of the time to protect Maria. And personally for its mausoleum site selection, design, purchase of materials, and finally hire workers to build the mausoleum, everything is no big or small, personally.
After everything was done, Mary was buried smoothly, and afterwards he gave Maria's family a large sum of money for daily expenses. But unusually, the keys to Maria's mausoleum were owned only by Karl.
He came to Maria's mausoleum every day to tell Mary about his longing and sang a song called "The Returning Wedding" for her, and the horror was the lyrics of the song, which described a man taking the body of a deceased woman to his home to complete the wedding.
Perhaps it was the song that inspired Carl, who decided not to let Mary lie in the cold grave anymore, and carl wanted to take Mary's body home.
Maria's luxurious mausoleum
In 1933, more than a year after Maria was buried, Karl chose to quietly transport Maria's embalmed body back home in a late night in a car. Although the body has been embalmed, but more than a year of room temperature preservation, Maria's body still can't bear to look at it.
This is also confirmed in Karl's subsequent memoirs. Maria's body was filled with a putrid smell that Carl, a doctor, couldn't stand, and Carl once again gave Mary a series of embalming treatments:
First Karl removed his internal organs and filled them with cotton wool soaked in preservatives; covered the smooth skin soaked with formalin liquid with wax; wore a wig for him; fixed the decaying cartilage tissue on his body with steel wire; covered his unpleasant smell with a large amount of perfume; and finally changed him into beautiful clothes.
Restored model of a Mary wax figure doll
I believe that Mary never dreamed that more than a year after her death, she was actually dug up out of her grave and made into a wax figure doll. On the outside, this is no different from a normal wax figure of equal height.
In this way, Carl and his elaborate wax statues were under the eaves for seven years, and during these seven years, In fact, Carl's neighbors had already found some clues.
Because Karl no longer went to Maria's mausoleum every day to mourn her flowers, as he used to, but instead would often buy extravagant women's clothing and jewelry, Karl seemed very mysterious.
Finally, one day, Carl's neighbor discovers the secret of Carl's house, and on his bed lies a wax figure that exudes unpleasant smells. For a time, the neighbors were rumored that Karl had exhumed Maria's body and made it into a wax figure doll. Subsequently, the rumor quickly reached the ears of Mary's family, who were extremely angry but very helpless.
A relative who has been dead for more than 9 years suddenly returns to the sight of his family in the state of a wax doll, which is certainly unacceptable to ordinary people. An enraged Maria's family then charged Karl for his egregious behavior.
Through autopsy, the local authorities found that this was indeed the body of Mary, but more than 9 years had passed, too long.
And the relevant departments actually expressed their appreciation for Carl's twisted love, feeling that although Carl's behavior was extreme, it also expressed Carl's true and pure love. In the end, the charges against Karl were dropped and he was ordered to return Maria's body.
When Karl returned to his home without Mary, he lost the "love of his life" and could no longer visit Mary, because Maria's body had been taken to an unknown place by her family and buried without even a tombstone, all to prevent Karl from disturbing Mary again.
Karl and Maria's family
Karl finally intended to leave this sad place that made him feel sad, and before he left, someone blew up the luxurious mausoleum built for Mary, and everyone knew that carl had done it, and he was saying goodbye to Mary in his way.
Until the early 1950s, when Carl died, he was still holding in his arms the doll she had restored again from Maria's mask.
There must have been people who were sick of a unrequited love affair, but from a scientific point of view, I think Carl may have suffered from a mental illness. Like obsessive-compulsive disorder, macrophobia, dense phobia, pica, etc., this is an unconventional psychological disease of human beings, and these people tend to have a special habit.
People like Karl, on the other hand, do not have fear of the corpses of the same kind, but feel that the body has a quiet and natural unique temperament, which is even more attractive than the living person, coupled with their own subjective emotional manipulation, they will have special feelings for the same kind of body.
Investigate Carl
This is a disorder of human brain function that may be caused by various external or internal factors, which affects the normal thinking and emotional venting of the brain. This type of person will have a disordered emotion, resulting in the appearance of abnormalities in their cognition, emotions, consciousness, and social behavior, and they are unable to live a normal life, and I think Karl is this kind of person.
Some people always believe that Karl has found the love of his life, and has experienced the most painful separation, resentment, love parting, and cannot be asked, and old Karl has not fallen behind. But in my opinion, I only feel a deep chill, what about you? The picture comes from the Network, and the intrusion must be deleted.
Mary wax figure