Fates Worse Than Death For Famous People's Bodies
There’s resting in peace, and then there’s this.
![Fates Worse Than Death For Famous People's Bodies](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/7/2/636772.jpg?v=2)
Dying is probably the last terrible thing that will happen to you, right? As it turns out, when it comes to these famous people, it wasn't. Not by a long shot.
![Allert Einstein's amazing brain... stolen ...was by pathologist Thomas Harvey. Harvey kept it cut up and preserved in jars in his basement until his w](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/5/633685.jpg?v=2)
![Eva Peron's open silver casket... ...was kept on display on her husband's dining room table. He later moved her to the attic, where he built a shrine](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/8/633688.jpg?v=2)
![John Barrymore's very dead bodyq ...hung out on Errol Flynn's couch. A very drunk Raoul Walsh paid the funeral HomE director $100 So he could steal th](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/6/633686.jpg?v=2)
![James Brown's leg... off ...was cut to provide DNA samples. When the iconic singer died, a bitter paternity battle erupted. The ongoing proceedings pr](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/7/633687.jpg?v=2)
![Thomas Paine's bones... ...were dug up and paraded around England. Paine was a staunch supporter of the U.S., alienating pretty much everyone with any](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/2/633682.jpg?v=2)
![Percy Bysshe Shelley's liver... ...got swapped back and forth by his buddies. The poet's body was cremated in a pyre, but his friends noticed that one](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/4/633684.jpg?v=2)
![Frederic Chopin's heart.. ...was stolen by Nazis. The composer had asked for his heart to be buried thousands of miles away from his body. Instead, hi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/8/633678.jpg?v=2)
![John F Kennedy's brain... went missing after an autopsy. JFK's body was buried without his brain, which remained in a steel cylinder in a locked Secre](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/1/633681.jpg?v=2)
![Oliver Cromwell's dead body... ...was dug up, put on trial, and found guilty of regicide (killing a king). Cromwell was given a posthumous execution -](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/0/633680.jpg?v=2)
![Joseph Haydn's head... ...went missing for 145 years. Phrenologists exhumed his body to check for a bump they figured determined that he'd be a musica](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/9/633679.jpg?v=2)
![George Washington's body.. L ...was frozen for three days. The first president was terrified of being buried alive, SO his family froze his body to be](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/7/633677.jpg?v=2)
![Rasputin's penis... ...was cut off and presented to his daughter. Instead of being traumatized for life, she took the appendage to Paris and put it on](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/3/633683.jpg?v=2)