The cast of a victim of the volcano eruption in Pompeii, circa 79 AD [1200×900]

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    1. how did people die? they seem to be captured, umm, *in situ*, so it must have been instantaneous. was it heat, like a nuclear blast? maybe a dumb question.

    2. Imagine living in Pompeii. You’re going about your day when suddenly the local volcano pops, burying the entire city in a layer of ash which is collapsing buildings and choking out everything. You run inside to get away from it, but then the pyroclastic flows overtake the city, and you writhe in pain as you’re lungs cook and your body bakes in the intense heat. You lay back, as death comes, reassured that this was a quick death.

      Then, almost 2k years later, some archeologist decides to pour some concrete into a void, then clear away the ash surrounding it. When the form is revealed, it’s you, or what’s left of you. Except you didn’t realize that you didn’t take particular care of where you hand lay before you died.

      So now, for the rest of recorded history, you will remain in this state. Unchanging…unmoving while millions of school children will see your form and chuckle. For you appear to be jacking off, and that is amusing to the future.

    3. People making jokes but if volcanic ash is swarming me, im protecting my junk first. Also imagine being killed by a wave of heat, falling in a suggestive pose, and fuckers 2000 years later laughing about how gay you fell.

    4. thehumblebaboon on

      I think I’ve read that his pose is most likely due to his muscles contracting and distorting due to the massive heat.

      Imagine living your life, dying horrifically, and due to how horrifically you died, your body contorted to full gooning mode. And that’s all anyone will think of you.

    5. About 2 years ago I visited Pompeii and I was looking at one of these casts displayed in a glass box.

      I thought to myself “dang she got that booty” and then by pure chance, my gf turns to me and says “so I was listening to the guide over there and this girl was apparently 17 when she died”

      💀💀

    6. “Oracle, will I truly be remembered in the far distant future? I have sacrificed to the gods, purified myself, and paid the temple its fee, and I demand an answer!”

      “Well, I have good news and bad news …”

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