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To: epicure who wrote (94407)	1/23/2005 8:18:16 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

"especially when the ritualizing is meant to denigrate the decision the women made." Now how would you know that? Looks like just another of your asinine assumptions. As the article Grainne posted said, they've been doing it for years - quietly. They've been doing it because they believe every person deserves a proper burial or cremation, regardless of whether their parent wants to give it to them. And it seems to me that the parent's failure to give it to them - in fact to dispose of them as if garbage - indicates they don't really give a damn what happens to the remains. As for violating someone's religious beliefs (incl. atheism, which is itself a belief) by burying them (i.e. being "cruel to the dead person"), that's the most ludicrous thing you've said about this. How does a fetus have any religious beliefs? Are religious beliefs genetic and held from conception? LOL BTW, many religions take their "death rituals" very seriously and many people feel it is only proper, perhaps even required of them, to "minister to the dead" when there is no family able or willing to do so. You really just don't get it, do you? The way you consistently mock the religious demonstrates so. This may come as a shock to you, but some people actually do care about the lives - and yes, even souls - of other people. And not because they were "revered" scientists or even anyone they've ever met or heard of, but just because they are human beings. PS: I am not particularly religious, myself - probably best described as a Deist - so don't bother congratulating yourself on "hitting a nerve". I just don't like pompous twit behavior.