Perhaps because someone removed his heart and put it in a pickle jar?
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Ah dammit, I wasn’t quick enough

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Got to get up a little earlier Jaret!
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Jesus. Every time I want to wax poetic about how awful life is in the modern age, I'll remember that no one will have to pickle my heart in a jar for 170 years to figure out how future me dies.
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I have my gallbladder and stones (in separate jars) if anyone wants them...
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Lol, yuck! I used to help remove them. On camera the stones look like gold nuggets, unless they are green

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My Dad's (which sit in their own jar next to mine) are vast golden nuggets, mine look like large golden pollen- but are tiny. I have been told never to open the jar because of the smell.
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Good advice! It is calcified bile in formaldehyde. Very icky

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My stones are dry! My gallbladder... well I should have sold it to the surgeon as he asked. I was young, impressionable- didn't want to lose parts of myself...
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He wanted his heart removed; was afraid of being buried alive. He died of complications of tuberculosis. He was also an epileptic. Ah, and a genius.
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Great composer, bad decomposer, I guess.
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now put his heart to rest...with the rest of him...
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It was common for centuries after the Ancient Egyptians for people- including Christians- to have their viscera buried separately from their bodies. Separate heart burials were particularly common- the French Royal family & Robert the Bruce are famous examples.
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Finally, we may have the answers we all have been waiting for.
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"People ask me about the source of my creativity. I tell them I have the heart of a great composer... in a jar on my desk." Alternate universe Robert Bloch
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Counter point. Who fucking cares how Chopin died.
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