Corpse Digging

[Usako]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31832393/...

Part of me says the bodies are hollow shells for their souls have long departed. So it wouldn't matter what happens to the bodies. And yet this disturbs me how people would think it's "okay" to shove the deceased around to make an extra buck.

[Sarah]

That's terrible.

[Meen]

But not irrational given how death has been commercialized:

The American Way of Death Revisited

[Usako]

This scandal isn't the first of its kind. Some funeral owners re-use caskets. People buy one, bury the deceased in it, then unbury to take the casket out and leave the body in dirt.

[Félix]

Tanja wrote: "This scandal isn't the first of its kind. Some funeral owners re-use caskets. People buy one, bury the deceased in it, then unbury to take the casket out and leave the body in dirt."

No!

[Usako]

Or this one with harvesting body parts:
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/prop...

[Chloe]

Also fun with harvesting body parts:

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Body Brokers Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains

Not as well done as Stiff was, but damned interesting.

[Meen]

I just gotta put the link for Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers in!

[Sarah]

If the conversation has officially turned away from the serious business of desecrated graves, I do have to add this:
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I ain't got no body....

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Hah! Sarah Pi, what a filthy job!

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I love Marty Feldman

[Meen]

Wow, Abby Normal made it into two threads today!