One instinct most humans possess is the desired to be remembered the way we want to be remembered. Few of us can control that memory as well as we would like. And some are remembered in ways that they couldn't have possibly imagined. Take the people in these copper cans, for example.
The substance of the story is that the bodies of people who died in an Oregon insane asylum in and around 1913 and whose bodies weren't claimed were cremated. And their ashes were stored in copper cans.
The psychedelic image below is one of them, taken by a photographer named David Maisel for his book, Library of Dust.
Aunt Sally looked better in her younger days.
Via Mentalfloss.com via MissCellania.com.
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