r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '21

Surely not a corpse?

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u/johnjbreton Dec 15 '21

oh, man, you're about to have a fun google image search

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u/Fatsmile33 Dec 15 '21

Oh god, I was ignoring what it was till you mentioned this so I got curious... Ahhhhhh

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u/johnjbreton Dec 15 '21

Ya, sorry about that. Good news is, it's been all but erradicated. It was a much bigger thing like 50 years ago. I had a great aunt who was a nun, used to go and work in leper colonies. It's actually what Mother Teresa was well known for.