"Forty-thousand bodies' worth of bones. Probably more. My brain buckled at the magnitude." Kristin Idaszak on visiting the Sedlec Ossuary in her 20s, when death was just an idea, and on returning years later, after her body made it real: https://longreads.com/2026/10/22/ossuary-charnel-house-heart-illness-death/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Death #Ossuary #Tourism #Travel #Heart #Illness #History