WP Daily Prompt: If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

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If I could open my own shop, I would find the most haunted building in the WORLD and I would design  catacombs that would run under it for miles and miles

and I would house the mummified remains of anyone- human or beast- that would like their human remains to spend their lifetime as art in my dark yet welcoming home.

However,there’s this question-Why do people want to visit places like the catacombs? Is it because the visitors are odd and macabre? That they are there for the thrill?

I think that people go  to places like the Catacombs in Italy  because they want to know what the face of death looks like so that when it shows up for them, they’ll know it and they won’t be scared of it.

That’s not such a bad thing- is it?

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The mummies of the Capuchin friars of the catacombs of Palermo, the oldest guests of this incredible place.

Photographer Unknown: Detail of some mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo. Some are perfectly preserved, in others you can see the straw coming out of period clothes.