Posted on 03/08/2013 11:06:59 AM PST by jimbo123
When Hugo Chavez’s embalmed body is laid in a glass casket sometime next week, he will join at least eight other world leaders whose remains are on display for all eternity … or at least for as long as their keepers can preserve them.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced Thursday that Chavez’s body would be on permanent display at the Museum of the Revolution so that “his people will always have them.” While that idea may sound grotesque, it’s also not particularly novel.
The Russians, arguably the ones who perfected the practice, have put both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin on long-term display. Lenin’s body has been embalmed in a large tomb near the Kremlin since shortly after his death in 1924, preserved by a steady 61 degree temperature and a strict regimen of mild bleachings and soaks in glycerol and potassium acetate.
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Pope John XXIII is laid out in St. Peter’s, although the sequencing of the display was different. He was properly buried at the time of death. His body was moved after he was beatified and was found to be well preserved, so it was decided to put him on display. It’s a little grotesque IMHO, but hey ... it’s Rome, so over the top fits right in.
As a Catholic I wish the Church would quit doing stuff like this. Makes us all look like some sort of creepy cult. He should be buried to rest in peace until the Lord returns.
He looks like the one that *does* the embalming actually.
Yikes.....ratboyman is scary.
From what I’ve read, there’s very little of the original Lenin left. Eyes, ears, nose — all wax now. The brain was removed when he died and of course he never had a heart ...
Orwell’s Major, the Pig.
I was also struck by the video of the changing of the guards at Ho Chi Minh's tomb. They reminded me of our own guards at the tomb of the unknowns in Arlington. The big difference is that we bestow this honor on ordinary unknown soldiers killed in defending this country. No leaders or even presidents are given this honor.
“I will process anyone, anywhere, for just 99.95. No ups. No extras. Just 99.95!”
When Obama dies—he will be mummified and preserved in state for all time! Watch and see if I am right. People will be sent to the camps for not mourning with enough passion. His Tomb on the Mall in Washington will be visited by all with lines of subjects waiting to have there card stamped after viewing the body to get there extra 500 calories rations.
When it’s time for Pelosi, she doesn’t need any more preservatives.....
One hopes it will not become a habit...sd
I’m told they all use Brawndo to preserve the bodies.
It’s got electrolytes.
Did Geraldo die????
A photographic guide to the world’s embalmed leaders
Dead socialists and assorted despots photos at the link...
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How.....morbid.
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