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[–] Fredselfish 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What was their end game? I mean what were they gaining by holding onto the bodies?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You can't reach lichdom through legal means

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Potentially letting the bodies hit the floor

[–] Rogmonster 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only thing I can think of is taking the money for performing the burials. Families pay top dollar for a "green" burial and then they just stash the body and the basement and keep the profit. Seems like they should have found a way to bury the bodies to avoid this whole thing. Or mental illness?

[–] morphballganon 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems like they should have found a way to bury the bodies to avoid this whole thing

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[–] Chickenstalker 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funerals should not be a for profit thing. You get preyed on by companies from even before birth all the way to after your death and even beyond (cemetary plot rental fees). When humans die, they should be buried naked in the ground with no embalming. That is the greenest, cheapest, hygienic and most energy conserving method of disposing a dead body. Death should not be masked by formalin and corpse paint.

[–] Arbiter 2 points 1 year ago

Yea, just throw me in the trash when I go.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 year ago

Food for Nyerlathotep.

[–] PandaPikachu 3 points 1 year ago
[–] breadsmasher 3 points 1 year ago

meat for sausage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] hedgehogging_the_bed 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The articles recommended when you try to leave Ars Techica aren't restricted to any kind of recent news so I got a headline that Aaron Swartz had been arrested for JSTOR downloads and had a whole "what year is it!?" moment.

[–] zepheriths 1 points 1 year ago

First thoughts. Fuck this ad B's on this website

[–] thedoodlenoodle 0 points 1 year ago

They dead ass watched Ozark once and thought that they could do the thing.