২৩ আগস্ট, ২০০৬

"Striptease used to be a common practice at funerals in Donghai's rural areas to allure viewers."

"Local villagers believe that the more people who attend the funeral, the more the dead person is honored."

Strange, but not illogical.

৭টি মন্তব্য:

Josef Novak বলেছেন...

That is unequivocally awesome!

Ron বলেছেন...

I love the idea of a 'mega-wake', where all vices are not only permitted , but encouraged! That way, no matter what excess occurs, someone will solumnly nod and say, 'He'd have wanted it that way,' and they very well may be right!

Bissage বলেছেন...

It has already been arranged.

When I die, I will be hollowed out and fitted with animatronics.

I will be naked.

And I will dance.

The Drill SGT বলেছেন...

On a related funeral topic, from India, I love the response from British General Napier:

You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours

Bissage বলেছেন...

Sarge: Thanks for the quote. I’ve been trying to find it on the internet, without success.

I’m going to print it out and put it in the shoebox, with all the others.

The Drill SGT বলেছেন...

LOl,

I googled:

burn wives hang them

Eli Blake বলেছেন...

I notice the words 'used to be.' For being communists the current Chinese government is imbued with an almost Victorian prudishness.

It may have to do with their official discouragement of sex, in order to control the population, but China is the only country I know of where the official state religion is atheism, but they are so obsessed with restricting sex that they have no problem putting a bullet in the head of people involved in pornography.