The Resurrectionists
Three weeks ago, Wife, Daughter, Daughter’s Friend (girl) and I spent 4 days in Edinburgh, Scotland. It’s been our family tradition to “discover” a European city during the October holidays. Since Son 1 was in university and Son 2 in Marseilles, Daughter got to bring a buddy.
We love museums, especially free ones. In the Scottish National Museum there is a section on Edinburgh and death. Fascinating, especially when you read about the Resurrectionists. They were not a sect of Presbyterianism, but rather 19th century body snatchers, grave robbers who would steal recently buried dead and sell the cadavers to the medical schools. It was a lucrative business, not even a felony and overlooked by many authorities, but an added burden on the loved-ones of the departed for they would have to protect the dead from thieves.
Check out the Iron Coffin below (click to enlarge). Now, imagine Greg, our favorite funeral home director, trying to store that into his vehicle with his well-publicized grace.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Okay, hold on, I’m imagining…imagining…imagining…
Ohhhh, I see what you mean! That is very, very funny.
Speaking of death and resurrection, my poor blog has been deader than a doorknob this week due to this. It rose briefly last night, but has since dove again. Hopefully, it will be up later today, but with Curly, Moe and Larry tripping over all those wires they’re trying to hook up, who knows?
Well, I suspect I’ll have something to say about “migrating servers” once I’ve risen for good.
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I got on your site early this morning our time. Wife was surprised. She said you’d been “gone”. So welcome back… (Brady)
November 9th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Looks more like a Sub than a casket. The little boy in the picture reminds me of Greg’s Grandson, full of the humor genes from Greg and his son, roaming the Funeral Home, and looking for fun.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Too funny! Trying to lift that would make an old person out of you fast. Wonder how many pallbearers it took?
November 9th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Just another day, another challenge. Bring it on!!
November 9th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I’m not sure why that thought is so funny…but it is. Sorry, Greg.
November 9th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
For some reason, the words “I’m not dead yet!” just popped into my head.
November 10th, 2007 at 9:31 am
My brother beat me to it!
But I am glad that there are now people who donate their bodies to science, so that it does not happen as much anymore…