How many dead bodies have you dealt with?
Two directly, Three if you count the one I got back via CPR. All in bad shape, though ‘intact’... if it matters, along with dealing with some pretty horrific unrelated accidents.
So please explain in detail how if there is enough of a body left to throw in a dumpster, how that same ‘soup’ cannot be transported to either a crematorium or burial plot. An arm, a torso, or a tooth...there is enough there to bury is there not?
That’s all I’m saying. I know how little can remain. If there is enough to constitute “remains” there’s enough to treat with some level of respect greater than that we show dog vomit.
Quit your juvenile posturing. Money had to be allocated from the budget to use the landfill. So it was known to decision makers.
Nobody blames the workers in the basement. But the person who decided, this was not one of the body handlers. It was a person who never recognized why this is wrong, and never tried to argue with anyone higher up about it.
Nobody thinks the autopsy workers just threw the remains in their pickup to drop off at the dump. We are being critical of the policy maker decision. Not the work of anyone who has smelled a body in the last decade or 2.
From the artcile:
“and Iraq and Afghanistan War dead were merely incinerated then dumped in a landfill in Virginia. “
Many of these were identifiable bodies.
Can you justify treating them like used Huggies diapers?
And please, tell this soldier [me] how you would treat MY remains sir?