Comments on: Funeral rites are not only for the dead but for the living. And burial and burning are not about disposal of a corpse but about the ceremonial treatment of it. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 09 May 2014 09:33:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1895972 Fri, 09 May 2014 09:33:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1895972 In reply to Superman.

It’s the second time Marvel have predicted our future, after the episode of ‘Agents of SHIELD’ featuring ‘Malta’.

I wonder what’s next. Will we all start turning big and green every time we get angry? Have our government and society been infiltrated by Skrulls for long?

]]> By: Edward https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1892866 Thu, 08 May 2014 21:00:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1892866 In reply to Jeff.

I think the idea of using it as fertiliser is one of the main turn-offs.

]]> By: Superman https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1892829 Thu, 08 May 2014 20:53:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1892829 It is strange but there was this Marvel comic years ago called Doom 2099 where America invaded a foreign country called Makhelastan and reduced the population to “protein-rich sludge,” by dumping a chemical..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_2099

]]> By: Rumplestiltskin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1892317 Thu, 08 May 2014 19:01:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1892317 It’s the dumping into the sewers that really gets my goat.

]]> By: M Borg https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1891129 Thu, 08 May 2014 14:57:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1891129 I’ll have to admit, I’m not too keen on the dissolving of bodies for burial however, just to straighten facts, when the body is dissolved it is only the flesh and organs which are drained and discarded. The bones remain as a residue, are ground into a powder and given to the family in an urn.

]]> By: ken il malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1890909 Thu, 08 May 2014 14:19:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1890909 In reply to Manuel.

The Catholic Church in Malta had no qualms or trouble in disinterring corpses in church- adjacent cemeteries when civilian burials were to be done in outlaying new cemeteries after the 1869 burials laws (although civilian burials inside the churches were still done till 1905) or when they wanted to enlarge or re-model the church.

Check out 19th century photos of the old style St Publius church in Foriana, it had a cemetery on its right side as you entered and very close to the grain silos too. The Zabbar church also had a small cemetery on the right side, that is now long gone.

]]> By: Manuel https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1889646 Thu, 08 May 2014 10:22:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1889646 Sandro Chetcuti will surely be in favour of dissolving corpses in high-alkaline fluid and then flushing them down the drain; he would do that even to his relatives as long as he gets what he wants: more space to build.

It was Joe Muscat’s personal promise to him before the election. So anything goes with Joe, even if this means dissolving the corpse of my own grandmother to make space for development.

]]> By: E https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1889623 Thu, 08 May 2014 10:19:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1889623 Somebody watched Breaking Bad.

]]> By: L.Gatt https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1888771 Thu, 08 May 2014 08:01:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1888771 What seems to have been dissolved in acid is the Maltese Catholic Church. How has Muscat bought their total silence on everything?

Dissolving bodies, gay marriage, gay adoption, abortion, free use of drugs, nudist camps, and not a word uttered by the Church.

]]> By: ken il malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/funeral-rites-are-not-for-the-dead-but-for-the-living-and-burial-and-burning-are-not-about-disposal-of-a-corpse-but-about-the-ceremonial-treatment-of-it/#comment-1887721 Thu, 08 May 2014 04:15:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46899#comment-1887721 What is the big deal about building a crematorium on the island?

So they will use more gas than the ones in a large metropolitan city in the UK or in Northern continental Europe to bring the fire box to optimum operating temperature, big deal, that will be covered by the price that the relatives pay for the total of the funeral service.

It takes 3 hours to cremate an average sized corpse and they still have to manually crush the burnt remains of the cranium with hammers and then grind the rest of the charred bones in a grinder to get that consistent grayish ash powder that they place in a 8″x 8″ cardboard box or a fancy metal urn.

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