[I still care]

Dead people often are unrecognizable. Anyone who sees it on a regular basis will tell you that. In fact, I read a book just the other day where a woman got her son back from Vietnam, and she was convinced it was the wrong body they had brought back, because it didn't look anything like him.

In the US we have morticians to make death look "human" again. They often work from photos.

But I do see the resemblance, in important ways. They have been identified by many, and I have no doubt these are who they are claimed to be.

[hoosiermama]

Remember, they have also tried to alter their appearance so they would not be recognized.

[PJ-Comix]

In the US we have morticians to make death look "human" again.

Ever talk to those guys? They can tell you the most gruesome jokes. I think you have to have a certain mental attitude to become a mortician or an undertaker. In high school we had a guy called Rat Galgano whose father was an undertaker and he talked about sleeping in the caskets in the funeral home. There was also an Elmore Leonard novel that went into some detail about what morticians do. Not pleasant so it takes a certain kind of personality for that.