Many people who visit my site who have moral issues regarding this interest sometimes will try and challenge me on religous grounds, which is perfectly valid on their part because our current culture and social values reflect a wide acceptance of specific Christian-Judeo values.  But human history was not always like it is today regarding religious beliefs and celebrations of death.  So I surely don't consider my necrophilic interests unique to humanity nor do I accept that any one religion is THE religion since none of us will ever know for sure until maybe the day we die.  But that is not to say that I don't carry within me some elements of current religous thought.  I was raised a Lutheran and while my family was not as consumed by religious values as some, I was raised to believe in God and Christ and the King James version of the Holy Bible.  I was religion-educated to confirmation, a member of the church choir, served as an usher, and went to church on the major celebration days.  I pretty much stopped all that when I graduated from high school and subsequently went to college and the military and began my life.

Science or Religion? -
I tend to be a practical person and this has been reflected in my interests in the physical sciences as they tend to be tangible and physical laws of nature rather than the ambiguity of religion.  But over the years I've evolved my thought process into accepting that human thought can reside on mutiple levels at the same time depending on the situation of the moment.  For example,  if I am staring into the Grand Canyon I am awed at the beauty and magnificance of what amounts to simply a big hole in the ground.  But I know it was created by natural erosion over the millenia.  At the same time I am humbled at being able to be part of a living species that can interpret this hole in the ground as being beauty... and then extending it to beyond the universe and speculate that there indeed must have been a single god-like creator of all this and not simply a chance banging of a few elements in space.

But does my religious 'system' require me to pray and do I interpret the concept of sin?  I've long since resolved that. Acknowledging sin simply acknowledges and contributes to guilt and life is far too short to be absorbed in guilt.  I don't pray in the traditional sense but I prefer to think I am in some level of harmony with a spiritual God.  Believing in 'him' allows me to place all those intangibles in life neatly in the unknown catagory of my mind.  If I were confronted in a life and death situation I would instinctively attempt to resolve it practically.. and when all else fails I would acknowledge my spiritual "Maker" as I prepare to meet the unknown.  But through life I have evolved to live by the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  To me that pretty much sums up all the Commandments.  I refuse to acknowledge that my human instincts are a sin to conquer and that I need to devote my life to someone's doctrine of some past prophet.  I also refuse to acknowledge that just because I enjoy something in life that it should be forbidden lest I enjoy it too much and become tainted with obsession or something.

Thoughts on Death -
At sometime in our life we will all die.  A sobering thought but certainly not an earth-shaking concept; we have grown to live with death around us.  I have seen a level of death in my life and witnessed it in varying levels from the media... and, yes, it's hard not to be affected at a spiritual level.  Modern religion does an appalling job at trying to provide a spiritual balance.  Like many people, I don't know how many times I've heard that same old line, "Well, God must have had reasons of his own for taking her from us as he works in mysterious ways."  Yeah, well... that does nothing for me other then to further cement into my mind that God, if there is one, is wreckless and vengeful.  You can get away with that if dear old Aunt Edna dies as her time was probably coming anyway.  But you can't sell me on that in witnessing people who die suddenly in auto accidents, freak accidents, on the battlefield, or slamming into the ground at 100+ miles an hour after jumping 90 floors to a sure death in order to avoid being burned alive in a high rise building after a jet plane intentionally is flown into it.  Bottom line, death is random, plain and simple.

My own view on death as it relates to my own level of spirtuality is that death is a part of life.  If I am confronted with my own immediate death and all practical measures to prolong my life have been fruitless I will 'make my peace' with my own perception of who God might be as a final mental acknwledgement in surrending myself to the unknown.  I may even pray to that unknown spirtual entity to hasten my death in order to relieve my pain because it will comfort my mind to do so.  I may thank the entity.. the same one that created the Grand Canyon in my previous example... for allowing me the consciousness to exist in a life that has few regrets and one in which I was able to perceive beauty on many levels.  The reality is that my existance is probably just as random an occurance as life itself.  But, when entering the unknown I reach into myself for a measure of hope and faith... and acknowledge I am only human.  You might interpret all this as a bit of spiritual hypocracy and indeed it's very possible it is just that.  But then, we humans tend to be hypocritic beings as we try and adapt to our surroundings and each other.

My Interest in Necrophilia -
I think other areas of my site will detail this much better but it's no secret that sexual desire within any of us can be as different as night and day.  In humanity death is a major part of how we live.  We try and do things that minimize our own demise and we use science and medicine in a way to avoid the inevitable.  Death is with us and as such it can emerge as part of our sexuality... or sexual interests.  But that's all explained elsewhere on the site.   For me the melding of necrophilia and whatever religious interpretation I may have are sometimes one of the same.  It's not that I worship death sexually but rather I celebrate the person who has died through my sexual expression.  While many have necrophilic interests simply for carnal lust I prefer to interpret a person's death, especially the untimely death of a younger female, as a somber and somewhat spiritual occurance that for me includes having sexual intercourse.  People often tell me that it's rape,  it's unconsentual, etc. and oft quote scripture from the Bible.  Well, to those people that's their intedpretation.  For me it's a kind of sexual bereavment.  Scientifically the body is just dead organic material.  Spiritually, by today's interpretation of a living person having a soul, the soul has left the body and the body is just an empty shell.  Then folks will provide me with  the idea, "Well, what if it were your dead loved one being violated like that?".  Look.... we are all human and we all respond to images in our lives as we've been conditioned by life to accept certain behaviors and activites as being pleasent or unpleasent.  If I were to engage in sex with a dead person I am doing it not to tease or taunt the relatives.  In actuallity I view my behavior with that dead person as being between only myself and the dead person.  Other people are not part of the equation.  Would they be disturbed if they knew I had sex with their dead loved one?  Very possibly.  Would I be disturbed if I knew someone had sex with my dead loved one?  Very possibly.  But in both cases it's the image we perceive as being a violation because of years of moral conditioning.  If Aunt Edna dies we will view Aunt Edna as if she were 'with' us until the casket lid is closed for the last time, in spite of the fact that religion says that person's soul leaves the body and the body is just an empty vessel.  In past ancient societies this 'vessel' was treated as simply material to be disposed of because the essence of that person has already left the body to some level of the hereafter. 

It's like suggesting that sex with a corpse is an 'abuse'.  I guess everyone has their own idea of what constitutes abuse in this world (How about we concern ourselves with abuse of living people, like children, and leave necrophilia alone).  I challenge anyone to find dignity in the way their loved one might be handled during an autopsy.  In the end it's all a matter of perspective.