I suspect it's a pun on the mineral name ... (Incorrectly, I assumed that the na...

		gilleain on May 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A blue mineral that grows on buried bodies and con... I suspect it's a pun on the mineral name ... (Incorrectly, I assumed that the name related to 'vital' - as in 'living' - but apparently not : "It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1817, the year of his death, after either John Henry Vivian (1785–1855), a Welsh-Cornish politician, mine owner and mineralogist living in Truro, Cornwall, England, or after Jeffrey G. Vivian, an English mineralogist."

That said the name Vivian does derive from the Latin name Vivianus, which comes from the Latin word vivus, meaning "alive"