<p>I don’t personally care where he is buried. Dead is dead is dead. He isn’t going to feel vindicated or proud or superior if he gets a Muslim burial. Because he is, you know, dead.</p>
<p>I’m not an adherent of any religion, so I can’t answer from that perspective, but as a human being, I say he forfeited the right to any sense of small-town decency. Being denied your burial of choice seems like a small thing when you compare it to blowing up innocents, you know, like 8 year olds.</p>
<p>What to do with the corpse? I don’t know, but I wouldn’t want it in a place where my loved ones were buried. I’m funny that way.</p>
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<p>I agree Hunt. There are certain things we do that contribute to our humanity. Proper burial is one.</p>
<p>As I’ve said before in similar contexts, the reason we give this guy a decent burial is the same reason Batman doesn’t kill the Joker.</p>
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While I find this very decent and ideal, I cannot blame people for not wanting to have anything to do with the body. It’s a complicated situation.</p>
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<p>It seems that his parents and his wife don’t want to deal with this so the uncle is working on it and I don’t think that he lives in the area. It would probably take a considerable amount of work on his part to arrange a burial in a foreign country which he may have no ties to now.</p>
<p>I think the refusal of cemeteries to take the body has less to do with outraged morality than the practical prospects of the grave being a lightning rod for vandalism, protests, and other things that these places don’t want to deal with.</p>
<p>And who can blame them.</p>
<p>Couldn’t they bury him in the same cemetary as Lee Harvey Oswald?</p>
<p>[Worcester</a> man: Send Tsarnaev body to Russia - News - Boston.com](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/05/06/worcester-man-send-tsarnaev-body-russia/69wJt0hUJ3fOfGegsvynSO/story.html]Worcester”>http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/05/06/worcester-man-send-tsarnaev-body-russia/69wJt0hUJ3fOfGegsvynSO/story.html)</p>
<p>It seems to me that the justification for a “proper burial” is the same as the justification for no proper burial: to establish the superiority of one’s ego over the deceased. I don’t care either way. I’m with zoosermom: dead is dead. I prefer cremation and scattering of ashes in some relevant place.</p>
<p>I feel I have to point out that the older brother was not convicted of any crime. It’s pretty obvious that he was guilty, of course, but I do tend to cling (irrationally, perhaps) to American values.</p>
<p>It seems telling that the bomber’s own wife didn’t claim his body.</p>
<p>^She might be afraid of being targeted as a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer. Maybe not, but it’s very probable.</p>
<p>Maybe, but I guess I cling to the idea that spouses owe each other and society certain duties, unless there are extenuating circumstances, of course, or unless they are trying to send a message.</p>
<p>The older brother’s wife is back with her parents. I suspect they never thought much of her husband in the first place, and hopefully she’s seeing now that they were right.</p>
<p>I just hope whatever happens, it is done quickly so I don’t have to hear about this any more. The American way would be that the family has the right to a proper burial but the people, victims and the community should also have the right to voice their objections to such a person of dubious past to be buried in their backyard.</p>
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<p>I prefer cremation too and include that in the definition of a “proper burial.” The question is whether we honor the wishes of the dead or do what is necessary to fulfill expectations of the living.</p>
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<p>I thought that, until I heard that her father went to Yale, and then I figured her parents might have thought their daughter’s multi-cultural life was cool.</p>
<p>I agree with Hunt. I have a lot of problem with how things seem to be going with people who don’t respect our laws in terms of the process. It’s important that these tenets are adhered to in these most public and heinous situations, so that the importance of them remains in place. when exceptions can be made, the process will break down.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s true, all parents who went to Yale want their daughters to marry an unemployed boxer from Chechnya.</p>