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The first thing I said was I don't find the body sacred. However this family was so worried about their child being unentombed they padlocked him to the casket.
by boomboomsubban 3y ago
The first thing I said was I don't find the body sacred. However this family was so worried about their child being unentombed they padlocked him to the casket. Sure, this wasn't what they imagined when they padlocked him, but they wanted him to stay buried.
Making art out of the bones would be better than parading the corpse around saying "look at how silly their beliefs were."
- defrost 3y agoSomebody didn't want the child getting up and out of the grave of it's own accord, yes. (allegedly) The question whether that was the parents, the wider family, the "villagers", .. remains open (I would presume). Either way, for whatever unkown reason the bodies are being moved, I see no signs that they are being disinterned into chairs and paraded about the town square (something literally happens with the dead in some cultures that you have liturally referenced) .. just the careful, respectful, recording and logging of sites by archeologists. The issues comes with whether their work should be done or not. And then with whether it should be on the public record or not. And lastly with whether media should trawl those records for sensational content or not. Where is it you draw the line .. I can live without the trashy popular coverage myself.