![]() ![]() Check out the video below if you want to know more! Instead of taking the normal route, the party were ill-advised to instead travel through the ‘Hastings Cutoff’ – a treacherous Rocky Mountain mountain range and Utah desert – which delayed their migration and caused many of their animals to die, forcing them to leave wagons behind and causing tension which split the group into smaller sections. Out of a group of 87, only 48 barely survived the ordeal. ![]() The Donner party (sometimes known as the Donner-Reed party) was a group of American pioneers who attempted to migrate from California to the Midwest in 1847 but were caught in snow throughout a whole winter and had to resort to cannibalism to stay alive. ![]() Why am I bothering to tell you this?īecause it was ‘Ask a Mortician’ that first alerted me to the Donner party tragedy – a dark and mysterious part of American history. ![]() I also competely fangirled over her when I met her at VidCon in 2018 (a surprise for her as she was a small YouTube channel and VidCon wasn’t exactly her demographic), she said she thought my buzzcut was cool and I was riding that high for hours afterwards.ĪNYWAY. At the end of the book, Caitlin mentions that she has a YouTube channel, meant to further educate and spread the lessons of death positivity, called ‘ Ask a Mortician‘ with now over 1.4 million subscribers (or ‘deathlings’). ![]()
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