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Hard to find grave for alleged Boston bomber

Fifty bucks and I'll let them bury him in my back yard. Its a corpse for crying out loud. Why should anyone really care where it is or is not buried?
 
jamesrage said:
A dead service member and a terrorist are not the same thing.So you fail.
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They are the same thing to people who hate us.

From the perspective of some civilian in Afghanistan, America is murdering innocent civilians with robots in the sky. Yeah, we're not aiming at civilians, but that is the end result. I don't think our good intentions matter to the parents of dead children.

So yeah, it's a valid comparison.

We can be civilized and treat the dead well, or we can be like the people we call enemies.
 
They actually brought the body to the town where I grew up. I guess there was a protest outside the funeral home (just so happens to be the same funeral home where my father's funeral was years ago), and apparently there was a funeral going on during the protest. I thought that was kind of tasteless. Anyway, they ended up moving it from there to Worcester and then Virginia where it is now, as far as I'm aware.
 
Henrin said:
The person that committed the acts is dead and gone.While I don't believe in god or follow any faith what so ever I do believe that when someone dies there is nothing left to feel resentment towards. I realize people don't agree with me, but I don't understand how they can hold onto their hate and further desire to act towards the body of the individual in the way they do.




Yes, exactly.
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So Hitler and Napolean are just regular dudes to you now?

That's just weird.
 
Maybe they could dump his body into the Boston sewage system, where all the other **** goes.
 
Should cremate him and dump him in the ocean.
 
Henrin said:
We bury our dead. We do not use our fellow human beings as fish food.
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Burial at sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The United States Navy has performed many burials at sea in its history, with wartime burials as recently as World War II, and peacetime burials still common. Enemy deaths received the same ceremony as Americans or allies. Most other armed forces also perform burials at sea, such as the British Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy.
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Neil Armstrong was buried at sea as was Dick Clark.

Stop being so melodramatic.
 
CanadaJohn said:
This is a story for about 2 seconds. Unless someone is planning to put up a monument to Tsarnaev at the site of his grave, what's the big deal. What do you think happens when someone like Jeffrey Dahmer dies or any number of other mass murders when they die? The only reason this is a story is because the funeral home director made it a story - this should have been handled behind the scenes and the body quietly buried where it would never be discovered again.
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It shouldn't have been a problem. All the guy wanted to do was bury a body, he had to bring some sort of attention to the fact that he needed a place to bury it.
 
rocket88 said:
It shouldn't have been a problem. All the guy wanted to do was bury a body, he had to bring some sort of attention to the fact that he needed a place to bury it.
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Maybe so - but he made a public issue of accepting the body at first and then made a public issue of not being able to find a place to bury the body. If this was all done quietly, without a desire for publicity, it wouldn't have been so contentious. This was a funeral home used to performing muslim services and surely had connections with cemetaries that bury muslims on a regular basis. He would have been wiser not accepting the body until he knew what the end game was going to be.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Maybe so - but he made a public issue of accepting the body at first and then made a public issue of not being able to find a place to bury the body. If this was all done quietly, without a desire for publicity, it wouldn't have been so contentious. This was a funeral home used to performing muslim services and surely had connections with cemetaries that bury muslims on a regular basis. He would have been wiser not accepting the body until he knew what the end game was going to be.
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You're probably right about that. Maybe he thought it wouldn't be a problem...
 
ChrisL said:
I wonder why they didn't just cremate him and send him to his mother? Probably would've been the cheapest and easiest thing to do with the body.
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Cheapest and easiest, yes, but it would be wrong. I know what he did, but we can only control our own actions. Cremation is not allowed in Islam, and after his uncle came an did what needed to be done for a muslim burial it would have been disrespectful to the uncle at least.

What is the Islamic view on cremation? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers
 
Deuce said:
We can be civilized and treat the dead well, or we can be like the people we call enemies.
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Which would make us no better than they are.
 
rocket88 said:
Cheapest and easiest, yes, but it would be wrong. I know what he did, but we can only control our own actions. Cremation is not allowed in Islam, and after his uncle came an did what needed to be done for a muslim burial it would have been disrespectful to the uncle at least.

What is the Islamic view on cremation? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers
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I view it only as wrong when there's another viable and acceptable option.

In this case - the terrorist abandoned Islam when he decided to kill people.

Also - if none of the immediate family claims body, and no prominent Islamic group claims body, and the state must then deal with it, I see no reason why "religious acceptability" should have much bearing on things.

Of course - the other option would be to bury him in an unmarked grave in the prison grave yard where his brother will spend the rest of his life.
 
In my city you get a cardboard box in an unmarked grave beside the drain ditch at the edge of the woods behind the maintenance building in the largest of the city owned cemeteries. Some people do actually donate real burial plots they do not plan on using anymore that are used to help bury poor people who want to have a funeral. Churches will sometimes take up collections to help pay for indigent funerals when asked. We have a lot of churches, so it adds up quick even if only a few people throw in a few dollars.
 
rocket88 said:
Cheapest and easiest, yes, but it would be wrong. I know what he did, but we can only control our own actions. Cremation is not allowed in Islam, and after his uncle came an did what needed to be done for a muslim burial it would have been disrespectful to the uncle at least.

What is the Islamic view on cremation? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers
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Like I care about respecting this guy and his traditions after what he did? Are you kidding me? I really couldn't care less. Just want to get rid of him as cheap and easy as possible.

As for the uncle, I feel bad that he had such a monster for a nephew.
 
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