After he drowned in July of 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley was cremated on a beach near the city of Viraggio. His heart was snatched from the pyre by his friend and fellow Romantic Edward John Trelawney, and was retained by his second wife, Mary Shelley, until her death in 1851. The heart of Shelley is currently interred with the body of their only surviving child, Sir Percy Florence Shelley.
Another interesting disembodied heart is that of the French Dauphin, son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI...but that's another story altogether.
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If I'm ever cremated on a beach, don't snatch my heart from the pyre. You could get burned that way. Just saying.
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