The Worst Job During the Black Death #history #plague #shorts #medievalhistory

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]You wake up and you have the best paying job in the city because almost everyone who did it before you >> [music] >> is already dead.

[00:00:08]You are a body collector.

[00:00:10]In Florence, they called you beccamorto.

[00:00:13]And people cross the street to avoid [music] you because you smelled of death and carried it with you.

[00:00:20]Most men doing this job were not trained workers.

[00:00:22]>> [music] >> They were beggars and criminals. Some let out of prison just to haul the dead because no one else would touch the bodies.

[00:00:30]And here is the dark part.

[00:00:32]For the first time in your life, you have money.

[00:00:36]The plague made you rich one corpse at a time.

[00:00:41]Every morning, you load the cart and take them to the pits outside the city.

[00:00:45]There is no time to dig a grave for each person, so you lay them in layers.

[00:00:50]Bodies, then earth, then more bodies.

[00:00:53]Like a horrible kind of lasagna.

[00:00:56]In some cities, a thousand people died in a single day.

[00:01:00]People feared you more than the sickness itself.

[00:01:04]In Italy, they called your kind the monatti and some wore bells on their legs so the living would hear you coming and hide.

[00:01:13]You are not a soldier.

[00:01:15]You are not a hero.

[00:01:17]You are just the person left to carry away everyone the world forgot.

[00:01:22]That was day four.

[00:01:24]Tomorrow, >> [music] >> you are one of 10 young people who flee the city and tell stories while the world dies.

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