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‘None of this happened the way you think it did’
- p1mrx 7y agoSummary: People bring bodies to a scammer's funeral home, and are offered free cremation (a $1000 value!) by donating some organs to a good cause. The family receives burnt-garbage ash, while the scammer secretly sells the entire body to the highest bidder. And she would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling FBI agents.
- DoofusOfDeath 7y agoThanks for the summary. I appreciate the craft of this sort of long-form writing, but I also want a quick summary to know if it's worth investing the time to read.
- magic_beans 7y agoAgreed. The article takes way too long to get to the point. A blurb at the top would have been helpful.
- cotelletta 7y agoI don't appreciate it, it's masturbation. I don't need some kind of faux murder mystery to read the news, just tell me what happened please. This only reminds me of friends who also don't know how to get to the damn point.
- evrydayhustling 7y agoYeah it's a great article, but on HN at least the headline should be something like "Cremation scam returns fake remains and sells body"
- bdavis__ 7y agoHigh Country News. I used to be a subscriber. Weird mix of mountain hippie viewpoints. With some ranchers mixed in.
- daodedickinson 7y agoA lot of the Body Worlds ripoff versions take "bodies of people who could not be identified" from China... the plastination process must begin within 24 hours of death... you can reason out the rest of the horror. It's just another holocaust you can see in real time but do little about as an individual. These tour the United States. I tried to protest one and could find no one else who cared. There's a persistent myth that there is some sort of "scientific" or "educational" value in seeing sleazy American business people and CCP police profit off of the cadavers of people who had illegal religions. Seems this article reveals they were only pretending to steal the bodies from China and they were stealing them from the U.S. instead. Still, not enough people care.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> Still, not enough people care. There's that saying that reality is what, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. I don't think the harm of grave robbing is real in this sense. It distresses people to know about the grave robbing. If they don't know about it, what damage does it actually do? And if people are taking care that victims remain ignorant, such that no harm occurs, what is the appropriate amount to care?
- speedplane 7y ago> I don't think the harm of grave robbing is real in this sense. It distresses people to know about the grave robbing. If they don't know about it, what damage does it actually do? Lying or hiding truth causes harm. If grave robberies are being covered up, it means that the government or some other institution is lying or at the very least shielding the truth. If people do not have access to reliable truth, they won't be able to make reasonable decisions, which can result in real harm.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> Lying or hiding truth causes harm. This is an assertion. What harm is this lie causing? Anything more concrete than "it upsets the moral balance of the universe"? > If people do not have access to reliable truth, they won't be able to make reasonable decisions, which can result in real harm. Can you provide an example of a real harm, or of a real decision that would be affected by this?
- vinceguidry 7y agoThat moment when you realize the game Graveyard Keeper is based on real life.