Judge Orders Burial of Mummified Baby

Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:59 AM EDT
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xfs292

that is the weirdest @!$%# i have ever heard. I have the shivers thinking about that baby on display

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Reply#1 - Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:51 PM EDT
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Dennis P. McCann

What, you don't have any mummies in your family?

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#1.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:54 PM EDT
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xfs292

yeah but we keep those in the basement not on the bureau!

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#1.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:55 PM EDT
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Gwenny

It's a little odd, but no odder than most of our other dealings with our dead. I mean, honestly, devoting acres of good farming land to memorials to rotted bodies? We could be growing food for the living bodies. LOL

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Reply#2 - Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:18 PM EDT
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Dennis P. McCann

We still can. Just plant on top of them.

They won't mind.

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#2.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:21 PM EDT
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Gwenny
We still can. Just plant on top of them.

I agree, although it might be more usual to compost people. I doubt very many people would agree to that. That is why my kids know I want the hospital to harvest everything it can and just cremate the rest. Then the kids can start a BIG dandelion patch with my ashes. :D

I like this idea for a vertical graveyard.

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#2.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:08 PM EDT
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Dennis P. McCann

Here's a video of some guy doing a cover of John Prine's Please Don't Bury Me.

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#2.3 - Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:50 AM EDT
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MinnieApolis
"It's one of the few things from our family past that we have left," Peavey had written in a petition to the court. "And when I pass on, I was looking forward to passing it on to another family member, to keep some of the history for future family members."

to keep some of the history???
They don't even know for sure who it is! They are NOT preserving history, just a dead baby.

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    Reply#3 - Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:26 PM EDT
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    stevetherobot

    This article has a picture of the baby.

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      Reply#4 - Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:39 PM EDT
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      Gwenny

      I've changed my mind. I agree with the state. Now, I want every single N. American aboriginal artifact not in possession of the direct descendants buried IMMEDIATELY. LOL

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        Reply#5 - Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:16 PM EDT
        {"commentId":1041085,"authorDomain":"genericpsycho"}
        indica

        Wow that mummified baby is freaking creepy.

        But still, what law says you can't have it?

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          Reply#6 - Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:21 PM EDT
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