The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44379   Message #653599
Posted By: Mrrzy
19-Feb-02 - 04:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
Maybe it's just me, but these folks were all DEAD ALREADY, so what happened to them doesn't seem to me to be a thing of grief counseling. But I think I'm missing something - it wasn't as if the survivors were visiting graves and talking to the wrong remains, there were no graves, right? At least there weren't supposed to be? And anyway, don't you ATTEND the cremation of your loved ones, like in Groundhog Day? I think I would have noticed something like, no flames. Also, it's unclear why the guy should be charged with THEFT - the survivors gave him the bodies to do something with which he didn't do, but they were his to dispose of by then. Maybe LARCENY or FRAUD - where he was paid to do X and didn't do it... but THEFT? Did I at some point OWN my father's dead body?

But this was FASCINATING as news goes, and indeed, a song is definitely required.

Please do not lambast(e) me for not understanding why some folks get upset at the mistreatment of dead bodies. I am not trying to be offensive, I just don't see the issue, they're DEAD and nothing can hurt them ever, ever again. Not even being stolen as one of my cousin's ashes were, right off the mail train, never recovered.