Posted on Jun 24, 2017
'I kept my daughter's body at home for three weeks' - BBC News
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For those who find this story disturbing, you should watch the old Jonathan Winters film "The Loved One", a 1965 satire on the funeral business. Death is a natural part of life treated unnaturally by the commercial ventures that have evolved to remove us from dealing with it. Once upon a time (and still in some cultures) families prepared their loved ones for burial. Caring for family in death as well as life was a constructive way of grieving. Thus, it may be argued, that this tale is more rational than what most people do today in "civilized" nations
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LTC Stephen C.
A rational and reasonable perspective, CPT Jack Durish, but one that makes most of us squirm these days.
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Capt Dwayne Conyers Very mixed emotions here. If it was one of my children I may have wanted them for a while after they died, but in reality, I feel this would be a torture I wouldn't be able to endure. To see them everyday would only bring back the grieving in a very increased state.
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