What Kills Us This Week! China!

I'd like to say "This could only happen in China!" but that's probably me being naive, however, based on news coming into HK, my choice for this week has to be:

THREATDOWN

Pro-active Body Snatching

China, a few months ago, because it's running out of space in burial plots, passed a law saying everyone now has to cremate. The people don't like the idea and there's been a great deal of resistance, however, this being China ...

... there's now a new and thriving business where, when your loved one dies, for the small sum of 10,000 yuan and "ask-no-questions", gangs will deliver a body of the right sex and age for you to hand over to the crematorium for burning. Then, once you have your certificate to that effect, you can then slyly bury your loved one in the family burial plot.

And where are the gangs getting those bodies? From among the handicapped, the homeless, strangers, beggars and orphans.

When I heard that, I remembered that Druidic Ogham they found several decades back that contained advice for who should be put into "The Wicker Man": the handicapped, the homeless, strangers, beggars and orphans. But they also had "unmarried mothers and their offspring and women who's husbands have recently died and who have no sons to keep them" ... but luckily these pro-active body snatcher gangs obviously haven't thought of those yet!