( continues...) deceased had left instructions that a particular party (or parties) could use his or her corpse, thusly. Then it's just gross, disgusting, deplorable, and hopefully a threat to public health, such that it can still be outlawed, because it's so gross.
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 08, 2006 3:18:02 pm PDT #6958 of 10001
What is even happening?
Topic!Cindy - Sep 08, 2006 3:19:20 pm PDT #6959 of 10001
What is even happening?
I'm four hours away, else I'd be up in their grill tonight demanding they call someone in to give my brother his fucking medication.
Ack, Cashmere. What is wrong with people? It's to EVERYONE'S benefit if they give J his medication, even their own.
msbelle - Sep 08, 2006 3:19:25 pm PDT #6960 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
am home.
damn Cash. those people all suck. so sorry.
megan walker - Sep 08, 2006 3:24:44 pm PDT #6961 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Cashmere, that just sounds like a nightmare. I hope the situation gets resolved soon. At least your brother has so many loved ones to look out for and advocate for him. Imagine the poor souls who don't. Not that you should have to be doing all this, but still. Fuckers.
Trudy Booth - Sep 08, 2006 3:34:50 pm PDT #6962 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Man, Cashmere, it's a crazy fucking world when your nephew's DUI is the GOOD news.
t continues to nuggle
JZ - Sep 08, 2006 3:48:46 pm PDT #6963 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, geez, Cashmere, what an utter nightmare. And the nurse who oops-forgot and everyone she works for who's just shrugging and saying Oh well, nothing we can do about it now deserve to be drop-kicked into oblivion. It's your brother's health and his life at stake, and your family is giving 110% to make it easier for the authorities to care for him, and they're not doing shit. Gah. I'm getting all knotted-up with rage on all your behalfs.
Cashmere - Sep 08, 2006 3:56:12 pm PDT #6964 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Man, Cashmere, it's a crazy fucking world when your nephew's DUI is the GOOD news.
Heh. That's my family. We put the "fun" in dysfunctional!
I'm trying not to stew and looking at it like this: he's not in immediate danger and he's got family inside looking out for him. Not to mention vocally supportive and activist types (me) following up on the outside. It could be much, much worse.
I'm going to finish my bread pudding and try to relax knowing there isn't anything I can do right now from here.
DH is trying to distract me with Scarface on AMC.
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2006 4:00:55 pm PDT #6965 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cashmere, that's sheerly appalling. I'm so sorry.
The case files are not overflowing with tales of spouses, lovers and friends, having one for the road. In more than half the documented cases, the perp is a person who works a job as an orderly, morgue worker, cemetery worker, or the like--where he will have access to corpses in order to use for sex.
Not having a problem with necrophilia doesn't mean that every instance of necrophilia is equally unproblematic. Am I allowed that point of view?
In one study of a group of perps, 42% of them murdered the person whose corpse they then used.
Dude. You've just killed a person. One of the crimes is bigger than the other, right?
If Joe Smith has sex with his dead wife (of natural causes) I think it's nasty. If someone steals or misappropriates the corpse to have sex with it--the crime starts with the misappropriation. Or the murder.
That is quite simply my point.
sarameg - Sep 08, 2006 4:02:13 pm PDT #6966 of 10001
Jeez, people had a bad day. I feel like I should come armed with antibiotics, painkillers and knee-whackers to pass out.
Did you know that going 20 mph over the speed limit is a misdemeanor charge in VA? A friend of mine learned that the hard way. She's kind of having fits about it because she's a canadian citizen (married to an US citizen) with a greencard, but I think she's pursuing citizenship. She's thinking she should get a lawyer, instead of just throwing herself contritely on the mercy of the court and hope it gets reduced to just a fine because of the implications. VAers have any comments on this?
Old gold moon rising with wisps of cloud blackening it. Positively halloweenish.
Strega - Sep 08, 2006 4:12:15 pm PDT #6967 of 10001
The law regularly renders judgments regarding mental anguish, and will award damages in such cases where mental anguish is proved, even when physical injury is absentEven for third-hand suffering? If I'm profoundly upset over something that happened to someone else, but no laws were broken, surely I can't sue for my resulting mental anguish.
I mean, if I can, I'm going to have to see a lawyer immediately.