Thursday, Sep. 03, 2009
Who You Callin' Weird?
You ran the item: 'Recurring themes' (News of the Weird, Weekly Surge, July 23) wherein:
June, Xianyang, Shaanxi province, China, a family paid $4,400 to dig up a female corpse for their recently deceased son to marry, etc.
My wife is from a different area of China, but says the practice is common: Usually done by rich people because the poor cannot afford it because dying/being buried unmarried is considered to be bad luck in the afterlife.
Also:
• Many males cannot find wives because so many baby grls were killed; including my wife's youngest sister;
• My wife says: if a live woman marries a dead man, she is still a virgin after the marriage; so if she marries a second husband her first male child will take the last name of her first (deceased) husband.
• Due to lack of space, most people are now cremated so the wedding is done with the ashes of the deceased present in an urn or container.
- remarks@insvictim.com
Thanks Remarks,
We'll just have to take your word - or your wife's - for it.
But - cultural clash or not - that doesn't make any of this stuff less weird here in the good ol' U.S. of A.
-The Management
Want to get something off your chest? We’ll put it in print.Write to Weekly Surge at kkimes@weeklysurge.com with the subject line “Say What” or send to Weekly Surge, P.O. Box 780001, MyrtleBeach, S.C., 29578.