Smell a celebrity’s death with this scary morgue machine

What if you could travel back in time and experience the last four minutes of a famous person’s life? Well, you can, if you’re willing to lock yourself in a morgue cabinet in the dark, listen and deeply inhale the air around you. That’s the only mildly-scary premise behind the Famous Deaths project, created by Marcel van Brakel and other members of Sense of Smell. At South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, van Brakel described what it was like to bring people into the machine, which recreates the deaths of Whitney Houston, Muammar Gaddafi, John F. Kennedy and Princess Diana by layering specific…
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