Comments on: The disposal of human remains by the US Air Force https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-disposal-of-human-remains-by-the-us-air-force/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:24:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: John Moeller https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-disposal-of-human-remains-by-the-us-air-force/#comment-18048 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:24:08 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1535#comment-18048 Gladys Knight? What? Gotta love the random irrelevant racism.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-disposal-of-human-remains-by-the-us-air-force/#comment-18047 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:10:45 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1535#comment-18047 Didaktylos: I should add, sometimes an amputated limb is stored up and buried with the dead person, but I’m told this is rare and done on special request.

]]> By: Kenneth Boulger https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-disposal-of-human-remains-by-the-us-air-force/#comment-18046 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:29:25 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1535#comment-18046 This column is a complete waste of space IMO.
The important question here mister bleeding heart liberal C-L person is WHY did the White House need to PAY Gladys Knight to perform? Unbelievable. This just doesn’t happen. It’s pretty much SOP that musical groups which perform for the POTUS do it por gratis.
The roots of Black R&B music mostly chronicled men and women cheating on their spouse,free love and drinking.
So, Mr. Mitchell “Investigative Reporter” how can you make that leap from music that more than not reflected the seedy side of Black life to it meaning something about race relations? W0W, is all I got2say.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-disposal-of-human-remains-by-the-us-air-force/#comment-18045 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:14:35 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1535#comment-18045 They are stored up and when you get enough you send them to the incinerator and they are medical waste.

Typically, certain body parts are also sampled before disposal, in the case of military hospitals, pathology samples are sent to the central repository, which has been collecting samples since Lincoln first ordered its establishment.

]]> By: Didaktylos https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-disposal-of-human-remains-by-the-us-air-force/#comment-18044 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:07:47 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1535#comment-18044 BTW – what do civilian hospitals do with surgically amputated limbs?

]]> By: RW Ahrens https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-disposal-of-human-remains-by-the-us-air-force/#comment-18043 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:28:28 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1535#comment-18043 There are all kinds of risks in civilian life too. Getting killed in a fire might kinda mess up the old carcass, as would a bad auto accident or an airplane crash.

How about all those folks who died at the World Trade Center? Didn’t find too many intact bodies there, did we?

Or getting drowned at sea? Getting ate by fish just might screw up that ole’ bodily recreation thing, dontcha think?

That particular belief has got to be one of the most idiotic ideas anybody has ever thought of next to just about all the rest of judeo-christ-islamic crap out there…

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-disposal-of-human-remains-by-the-us-air-force/#comment-18042 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:19:19 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1535#comment-18042 If you believe that your body must be buried intact, then you should definitely NOT join the military as there is a risk of combat.

]]> By: RW Ahrens https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-disposal-of-human-remains-by-the-us-air-force/#comment-18041 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:53:24 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1535#comment-18041 Many people have this strange belief leftover from lala land where there has to be a body buried intact in order for there to be a happy afterlife…or something. Or god can’t bring them back after Armageddon without a body..or something.

Get over it. They’re dead, gone. Whatever it was that made them who they were is gone, never to be seen or heard from again.

In my mind, there is little about religion that is more cruel than the belief that some day, we’ll get to see our loved ones again.

My wife tells the story of a relation of hers in Germany, who, after some years as a widow, was asked by a friend why she didn’t get remarried. Her reply was that she just couldn’t – what would she ever do with two husbands in heaven?

Another relative resisted visiting a daughter that had moved to the States for years and years. When finally confronted about her refusal, her answer was that she was afraid that if she died in America, when she went to heaven, everybody would be speaking English and she wouldn’t be close to her family!

Complete idiocy.

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