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Michelle Obama's Dad Buried In Desecrated Cemetery
Another Grave Injustice
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Michelle Obama's Dad Buried In Desecrated Cemetery |
Another Grave Injustice |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1826136.stm
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My mom ended up moving his remains to another cemetery, because my grandmother planned to be buried with him and she said that no moron was going to dig her up after she was buried. She actually made it clear that if she wanted to torture us, she could always come back and haunt us, but that she'd rather be left alone in her grave. Yeah, she could be creepy.
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I didn't manage to convince him how wrong it was (he admitted it was a "breach of contract" on the part of the cemetery but nothing more). It made me really sad. Is nothing sacred anymore?
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1506150/Alistair-Cookes-bones-stolen-by-transpla....html
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what's the moral of the story? people are still morally corrupt assholes? *headdesk*
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Babies, though? That does make me die a little inside, too.
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I, too, am struck by the importance of the remains to people -- particularly as I personally don't think that there is much objective importance to them. The person is gone; what is left is a shell. And yet, wow, my responses to this story were so powerful! Which just goes to show that my intellect and my heart are not always on the same page.
And for those cemetery workers to be so craven about such a deeply human need -- to know where the body is -- just defies my ability to make sense of other people.
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