13 Jun 2006
Some Ohio families refuse to claim bodies

This is quite possibly the most horrible story I've ever mentioned here. Anthropologists generally date the arrival of "humanity" from the time our ancestors began to bury their dead and treat the bodies with a modicum of respect and even reverence.

This was not only the moment religion was born in the human spirit, but the moment that a human community began to mean something more than it's animal counterparts: a tribe is not a flock or a herd, and anyone who thinks differently is welcome to roam my pasture for a few days and see firsthand for themselves.

I wonder if the lady who used the insurance money provided to bury her family member to redecorate her kitchen has considered her own chances of dying alone, and being laid to eternal rest unmourned and unremembered? I doubt it - that would require her to think beyond the immediate moment and plan a bit for the future, which is also a defining human trait.

Truly this represents the human race reverting to our base primate nature, and reflects a "Who cares?" attitude that does not bode well for the future of our so-called civilization.

AP - Thomas Tellis died in March, but his cremated remains are still waiting to be claimed at a Canton funeral home. Shortly after the 89-year-old's death, investigators located Tellis' daughter, but the woman, who was born out of wedlock and raised by another man, refused to claim Tellis' body.

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06:42 /Asatru | 2 comments | permanent link