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"The dead cannot cry out for justice;
it is the duty of the living to do so for them."
Lois McMaster Bujold - Science Fiction Writer
"Diplomatic Immunity" - 2005
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This
section is NOT about football (as the title of this page might
suggest), nor is it about necrophilia. This section is NOT about
fucking
the dead, mutilating or abusing the body of someone's dead relative to
satisfy sexual lust. What this section IS
about is pointing out the sometimes morally hypocritical and general
social misconceptions regarding what is termed as true abuse of the
dead, using my own perceptions as a basis for these observations.
Legal Abuses of the Dead
A common response from many people regarding the act of
necrophilia, and hence sometimes reflected in our laws, is that sexual
activity with the dead is an act of corpse abuse or abuse of the
dead. This is not an attempt to justify my fantasy interest nor
the real life actions of others but rather to present alternative
perceptions in order to stimulate personal thought. Personally, I
tend to allow more credence to the person who objects to necrophilia on
purely religious or personal grounds of morality (a measure of personal
indignity) than I do to the person who simply proclaims that the acts
are abuse of the dead. But like most other things in life
terminology and definitions are all relative to each individual.
Everyone's idea of what constitutes abuse or indignity of anything
varies widely. But let's explore the various things that can
happen to a dead person that historically and socially seem to be
acceptable.
As a society we seem to
want to cast the concept of 'dignity' regarding approaching death and
after death with a level of importance. We've all heard
the phrase 'death with dignity' and it's usually presented in the
context that death is inevitable.. or imminent... with a certain
individual. Terminal cancers and other illnesses immediately come
to mind and there's the natural tendency to think that spending your
last days within the confines of the somewhat emotionally sterile
environment of a clinic, rest home, or hospital, is not a dignified or
caring way to die. Hospice care is a result of this concept over
the last 30 years in that the terminal state of a patient is recognized
and their final days should be spent in comfortable and familiar
surroundings and loved ones. The contrary thought traditionally
held up to that point was that as long as one is alive that there is
hope, regardless of any terminal diagnosis, that it's better to stay in
a hospital to the end so that all the mechanisms to prolong your life
are readily available. Well, the social consciousness shifted and
use of hospice care is a legally accepted form of medical treatment...
all in the name of trying to preserve a definition of human dignity to
the end. Yet, if you look deeper at the concept, it's remarkably
close to assisted suicide simply by allowing for the patient to provide
a living will and a do-not-resucitate instruction.. and legalizing
hospice care, all designed to NOT encourage or prolong life but rather
in accepting death.
But as we all know not
everyone dies from terminal disease.. or even naturally.
Fatal accidents, of any kind, are generally far from being 'dignified'
ways to die.. but accidents are a part of living day to day. Auto
accidents particularly tend to mangle and mutilate a body, many times
to the point where it's suggested it shouldn't be viewed at a
wake. Airline accidents, deaths due to fire, some drownings, etc,
manytimes result in a body not being recoverable at all (floods, sea
tragedies, etc.), either due to not locating it or the body simply
being consumed or vaporized (as in the case of many on 9/11). The
latter not even allowing for some 'dignified' funeral.
Combat deaths are unique
of sorts and carry with them their own defined measure of
dignity. Generally speaking, a combat death is usually a very
violent death that more often than not mutilates the body to
extremes. Yet historically a soldier prided himself on dying by
the sword or in the defense of some cause as dignity was translated to
honor in spite of how mutilated their body
got during their death.; death as a prisoner or enslavement
being considered non-honorable or undignified ways to die in spite of
their body being left largely intact. Consider yet how the navies
of the world dispose of their dead (although modern navies do attempt
to return bodies to shore during peacetime). They put them in
bags, weighted the bags, and dumped them overboard where they descended
the depths, perhaps crushing from the pressure, but ultimately
decomposing into fish food over time. Hardly dignified to most
landlubbers since the relatives on shore don't get a body to bury in
their own way, but to the seafarer it's considered a dignified 'burial'
because of their 'love of the sea'. To those responsible for the
ship and crew it's the only means by which the dead could be disposed
of to avoid disease. Making a shipboard ceremony of it was a
natural progression to make a solemn event more emotionally acceptable
rather than just an insensitive issue of public health.
"Where is the dignity unless there is
honesty?"
Cicero - Roman Orator & Politician
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An Autopsy Pictoral
I
feel it's important that people in general understand what
actually can occur to their dead loved ones. In this case here is
a pictoral of a typical autopsy. Now, an autopsy need not include
this entire cut & slice process. Sometimes it's certain parts
of the body, like the head... or it's simply a matter of drawing blood
and getting tissue samples more localized on the body. But
generally speaking, these pictures represent a typical autopsy.
Now, let's set this up a
bit to properly understand the effects. Note the larger
pic below. The woman looks to be perhaps in her 30's to early
40's as her body does shows a bit of age maturity from the look of her
skin yet she still retains a fair shape. From her tummy one might
decern that she's had at least one child.. hence she was probably a
mother with a husband and child. The discoloration on her chest
could suggest an injury, and the tubes in her left arm would surely
suggest she was alive for a period of time, thusly she was probably an
accident victim of some sort and not likely died of any protracted
disease (she shows no sign of weight loss nor any muscle xxxxxxxx due
do a long hospital stay or dibilitating illness) or murdered. The
fact that she is undergoing an autopsy suggests itself that her death
was most probably unnatural, hence in most municipalities unnatural
deaths are all autopsied by law.
So, given all that, this
woman has loved ones.. probably a husband who loved making love
to her... kids who loved her. We could probably extrapolate
correctly that her tan lines across her breasts and lower abdomen
suggest she wore a bikini and as such had some preference for the
outdoors and a good self-esteem for how she looked as a woman. The
accident itself was an unexpected tragedy in their lives... and now
their loved one is being dissected... and for nothing other than the
fact that it's required by law. As you view these pics you tell
me you would want to see your wife and/or loved hacked like this... and
you tell me this isn't abuse. Her body will never be loved
ever again. She will never feel a kiss on her lips (note the last
pic to see her lips), she will never feel a loved one inside her
vagina, sucking on her nipples.. giving her orgasms... all the things
that are the essence of human feeling, instinct, and desire to
reproduce. Her husband having his memories of how sexy she
looked.. and then imagining this happening to her once pristine body.
Pursuit of science?
Well, if you want your loved one's body used for that, and organ
donation, that is your call and to some measure that could provide some
solice to the relatives knowing their mother/daughter's demise might
have some broader meaning. But when a law that dictates an
across-the-board requirment for slicing and dicing when someone dies in
some accident something is not right.
Pursuit of justice?
Well, that's the reason there is a law at all, of course. Any
unnatural act is presummed to be a potential criminal event.
Although, determining 'cause of death' is more what the authorities
prefer to call it but you'd think that could be done in other ways
other than cracking a chest open and cutting the ribs out. In
reality most accidental deaths are not like CSI, Law & Order, or
the other forensic TV shows. They are totally needless in most
cases and this is supported by some recent statistics (which I cannot
readily produce, but trust me anyway; use your common sense and compare
the numbers of your state/country between unnatural deaths total to
total autopsies requiring further investigation).
As to how
all this fits in with necrophilia.. well, simply for the sake of
comparison of what constitutes 'abuse', this permitted abuse looks far
more devestating to a loved one's body than what some laws suggest are
the effects of someone simply having sex with a dead person.
Matter of perspective.
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