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Thread #97646 Message #1925439
Posted By: Paul Burke
03-Jan-07 - 04:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: Green Burial: How Do You Want to Go?
Subject: RE: BS: Green Burial: How Do You Want to Go?
You probably won't notice, Lucy. But there was a rather moving television program a few years ago about the corpse of a vagrant who died, and his enbalmed body remained unclaimed for some time, until it was eventually acquired by a fairground owner. He painted it in fluorescent paint, and installed it in his ghost train ride, where it remained for many years until the show closed. The body, by then assumed to be a cleverly made dummy, made its way into an antique shop where it was bought by someone who examined it closely and found it was real. The program was about their attempts to restore the human history of the person who it used to be.