Manchester Mummy

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What Wikipedia says

Hannah Beswick (1688 – February 1758), of Birchin Bower in Hollinwood, an area of Oldham in what is now Greater Manchester, England, was a wealthy woman who had a pathological fear of premature burial. Following her death in 1758, her body was embalmed and kept above ground to be periodically checked for signs of life.

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Image: Charles Warren Clennell (1815–1873)[2], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.