BODY-BAGS

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By An observer on Friday, February 7, 2003 - 02:46 pm:

    URGENT! No Further Need For Body-bags
    C-Span's Brian Lamb just this morning showed what appears to be a government document enunciating a new U.S. policy for dealing with the bodies of military people killed in action. It goes on to say that instead of following the time honored tradition of trying to retrieve, identify
    and send back the remains of every American soldier or service-person killed in action, by this document the new military policy is to deploy mobile crematoriums to dispose of the remains near the battlefield. The ashes will be sent back to the grieving relatives. This ends the need for body-bags and the document goes on to say that they, the military, would try to address religious objections to this form of disposal of the dead by balancing them (the objections) with the need to protect the homeland from exposure to anthrax.

By Bostonian on Friday, February 7, 2003 - 03:08 pm:

    "If it's even true, which I doubt, it would never fly. The public reaction would be soundly negative, not to mention the uneasy similarity to certain concentration camps. It may not be a hoax, just a memo somebody wrote when asked how to deal with the logistical and medical problems of bringing people home. But it would never get approval."

By Observer on Friday, February 7, 2003 - 03:10 pm:

    It appeared to be a policy statement. The point is that it's been proposed! Of course it would "never fly."

By wisper on Friday, February 7, 2003 - 06:24 pm:

    my aunt got me a hospital body bag for my birthday some years ago. I keep it on a bookshelf. Toe tags and everything. It's sky blue, and rather cheery looking.
    She insists that one day we unwrap it and take it out to a forest trail, hide in it, and wait for a jogger to pass by.






    (that's how i turned out this way, in case you've been wondering.)

By Nate on Friday, February 7, 2003 - 07:18 pm:

    goddamnit!


    can you get arrested in canada for pulling a stunt like that?

By semillama on Saturday, February 8, 2003 - 05:58 pm:

    You're talking about the nation that first gave Tom Green a tv show, remember.


    "Plastic Bag! Plastic Bag! Plastic Bag!"

By wisper on Sunday, February 9, 2003 - 08:33 pm:

    sem! you watched Clone High!!!
    it's 'cause i told you to, right? right??

    nate- i know of no laws against impersonating a dead body :)
    this is the same woman that taught me to use a whip when i was 10.

By kazoo on Sunday, February 9, 2003 - 08:56 pm:

    Clone High is swell.

By semillama on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 10:40 am:

    Mr. Belvetron ALONE would have me hooked to that show.

    The part when he was goldplated and lowered had me on the floor, wesley.

By wisper on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 05:10 pm:

    didja see the first one? with the party?? where they go to it pretending to be teenagers?

    Mr.B-"Where are my bitches?!"
    Scudworth-"i'm your old school chum, Cloney McStudent"


    awww,shit. Wait'll they show the Jack Black one. Just wait.
    I love that JFK and his gay dads.