There is a blow - by - blow account of the preparations
of the corpse for the funeral, almost a DIY guide to embalming and cosmetic restoration.
Whether carving a heart into her chest, branding love and truth on her biceps, maintaining the rigormortal stiffness
of a corpse for hours, or sharing stories of autobiographical trauma, Los Angeles - based artist Dawn Kasper gives herself over to performance with breathtaking abandon and intensity.
Not exact matches
Radiohead and Atoms
for Peace frontman Thom Yorke last year described the service as «the last desperate fart
of a dying
corpse,» while pop megastar Taylor Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify in November.
A Copenhagen court on Wednesday convicted Madsen
of murdering Wall, sexual assault without intercourse
for the stabbing
of Wall's genitals, and violating her
corpse, tweeted Julie Thomsen, a reporter at the trial.
It took years
for Radiohead to agree to put its music on Spotify in 2016, after frontman Thom Yorke once called it «the last desperate fart
of a dying
corpse.»
The actions
of the Mormons who «baptized» dead Jews is still significantly less heinous than the actions
of some Roman Catholic Inquisitors who actually exhumed the
corpses of some people to put them on «trial»
for heresy.
''... are people lying in wait
for some pregnant woman to come along...» Yes, killer docs in corps that like to make
corpse out
of humans.
Dassey was convicted
of first - degree homicide, second - degree sexual assault and mutilation
of a
corpse following the death
of Teresa Halbach in 2005 and sentenced to life with no parole
for 41 years — he was just 17 at the time.
The Syrians would be punished
for a ruthless massacre; the Philistines
for playing jackal to Edom; the Phœnicians
for a breach
of treaty; the Edomites
for attacking a kindred and friendly people; the Ammonites
for slaughtering women and children in a wanton war
of aggression; the Moabites
for a brutal outrage upon the
corpse of the conquered King
of Edom.
Christians vary from those who picture the resurrection as the reanimation
of a
corpse to those who understand it in more spiritual terms and might look
for a parallel in group hallucinations.
Yes, the available history says that the heart was in the possession
of the church about a century later, so either someone kept it
for a long time after cutting it out
of his
corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart
of a pig or a sheep that some clergyman sold along with genuine pieces
of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.
Many more ex leaders
corpses would have been glorified more than GOD if it was not
for the Religion and the the proper disposal
of certain
corpses had been taken place...!
The stone put aside and the absence
of the
corpse were not in the first instance a motive
for rejoicing, but
for terror.
We can't relate as directly or intimately to her existence now as we used to, but her
corpse (or ashes) gives us some point
of contact, some focus
for our attention.
Abraham Kuyper observed that, prior to regeneration, a sinner «has all the passive properties belonging to a
corpse... [Therefore] every effort to claim
for the sinner the minutest co-operation in this first grace destroys the gospel, severs the artery
of the Christian confession and is anti-scriptural in the highest degree.»
The empty grave was forensically predictable: according to the opinion
of medical professionals present
for the exhumation, the sodden clay native to the area, coupled with the mold in which Newman insisted his casket be enshrouded, rendered conditions ideal
for the quickened and complete decomposition
of a
corpse.
The smell
of rotting mice
corpses is not recommended
for romance.
«Superstitious dread
of the
corpse of a person» who died
of smallpox was common among Pulaya Christians and missionaries found it difficult to secure a «Christian burial»
for victims
of smallpox.
So understood, the absence
of his
corpse serves to invite the living into deeper reflection about and gratitude
for the «heavenly shrines» who, Newman incants, «yet live to God.»
Only at our death would any such statement have meaning; and when it did, the meaning would be that
of a
corpse, something indeed finished because «done
for».
See,
for instance, Things Hidden, 235 - 236: «In effect, this sacrificial concept
of divinity must «die», and with it the whole apparatus
of historical Christianity,
for the Gospels to be able to rise again in our midst, not looking like a
corpse that we have exhumed, but revealed as the newest, finest, liveliest and truest thing that we have ever set eyes upon.»
After all God knows if the late will end to the bottom
of the ocean as a full complete
corpse or will be missing parts that might have head
for the American labs?
We're tempted to think that the Word speaks when Jesus turns water to wine, heals a man who has been lame
for decades, gives sight to a man born blind, and calls the
corpse of Lazarus out
of the grave.
But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation
of a generation
of young Americans at the beginnings
of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows
of corpses at Shiloh, the odor
of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons
of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list
of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government
for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth
for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call
for reparations opens itself up to a charge
of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.
It is the human endeavor to apply the tests
of coherence and comprehensiveness in drawing conclusions about the veracity
of certain phenomena — that,
for example, axheads do not float on water and the sun does not stand still, that conceptions are not immaculate, that
corpses do not rise from graves.
Even mountains
of corpses and emaciated, half - dead survivors prove nothing
for the deniers, who say simply that these are unfortunate victims
of typhus or cholera epidemics.
On the basis
of what Paul writes in this chapter we are justified in saying that if someone had offered to show Paul where the decayed
corpse of Jesus could be found, Paul would have shown no interest,
for the dead body would have been to him no more than the dead seed, the man
of dust, the earthly frame, and Paul himself had seen the risen Jesus in his glorified form, and that was all that mattered.
Others point to the widespread belief that the soul was thought to remain near the
corpse for three days before departing to the underworld at the expiry
of that time.
D. E. Nineham comments, «after Jesus» death no opportunity ever presented itself
for the proper anointing
of his
corpse a circumstance which apparently caused considerable distress to his intimate friends and disciples — and to some
of those who knew
of this incident it came to appear as «a kind
of anticipatory rectification
of the omission».
Fortunately
for the family and friends
of Jesus, a nearby tomb has been provided by one Joseph
of Arimathea who himself placed the
corpse in the tomb and rolled a stone against the door.
Because
for many
of us, a crucifix is just a creepy
corpse on a stick.
This week I am appropriately traveling to Hollywood, a town that owes its fortune to the Western more than to any other genre,
for the Western Political Science Association meeting, where I will be presenting a paper titled «Cowboys and
Corpses: The Moral Perils
of the State
of Nature in the....
There was such a marked difference to be observed between the live person, and the
corpse which remained after his death, that it was natural to assume that the living soul or spirit
of the man survived in another world, invisible and,
for the most part, out
of contact with those remaining in this world.
While most South Africans opted
for a
corpse to chow, a group
of us decided to celebrate tradition the compassionate way.
To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens
of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting
corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around
for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.
It was when I realized that to a very depressed person, Baudrillard might be right: Our culture might be a
corpse, and everything you see in it and confuse
for life might just be the nails and hair
of the
corpse still expanding after death.
The Federal Government may sanction Kenya Airways
for conveying a
corpse from the Ebola - affected Democratic Republic
of Congo to Nigeria.
KADUNA — Members
of the Shiite Islamic Movement
of Nigeria has called
for the unconditional release
of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqoub Zakzaky, his sister - in - law, and other members incarcerated since last month as well as release
of corpses of those killed
for proper and befitting Islamic burial.
The animal's
corpse was then sent it to the Westchester County Department
of Health
for rabies and other testing.
A local vigilante, who participated in the search
for the
corpses of the farmers, noted that the attacks becoming too rampant in Damboa, urging the security agencies to save the souls
of the residents.
The
corpses have been deposited at the morgue
of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa,
for autopsy.
Family
of the leader
of the Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Federal Government to release the
corpse of their son
for...
The recent Abuja bomb attacks on the day
of the country's 50th Independence Anniversary as claimed by Movement
for Emancipation
of Niger Delta (MEND), though caught the country by surprise, the response agencies timely and responsibly attended to the disaster saving more lives as well as moving survivals and
corpses to hospitals.
The elder sister
of the victim, Jolaade Oladipupo, said the family had to wait
for about one hour at Ikeja before the
corpse arrived.
He said Onukaba's «s
corpse was later deposited at a mortuary in Akure from where it will be brought
for burial today in his hometown, Ihima, Okehi Local Government area
of Kogi State.
His
corpse arrived
for the lying - in - state at around 1:40 pm, accompanied by Governor Ayodele Fayose and the son
of the deceased, former Governor Niyi Adebayo.
A rare blooming
of a
corpse flower, known
for its stench, has drawn about 25,000 people to the New York Botanical Garden since July 20, a spokesman
for the Bronx garden said.
But I, nevertheless, perfectly appreciate why it was possible
for the
corpse of Capt. Zapata to have been kept on ice at the 37th Military Hospital
for so long.
He said operatives
of NSCDC in the area have handed over the
corpses of the deceased to their various families
for burial, adding that those injured have been taken to hospital
for medical treatment.
Those in military detention facilities should be released and
corpses of those killed be handed over to us
for befitting Islamic burials.