Yes, thanks for all the condolences for old Albarn. For those who don't know, he's failed in his latest Religious Discrimination bid.
All Albarn wants is that, when he passes on, he be allowed to have his funerary rights conducted in the traditional Beaker manner. The ancient Beaker Folk, of course, exposed the remains of their late ancestors to the birds of the air until all the flesh was pecked off. Then their bones would be entombed in round barrows - where, every few seasons, the living Beaker People would enter and, in an arcane and incomprehensible ritual, shuffle the bones around with those of other ancestors in something resembling a property exchange in a game of Monopoly.
The council says it's not the shuffling the bones around so much, if that's what he wants. It's the exposing a corpse on an elevated platform for a number of months. well, Albarn's not giving up. He says it's next stop Strasbourg.
What's required is a little sideways thinking. The body should be left to a 'body farm' with the method of decomposition/ disposal specified.
ReplyDeleteFrankly I think the birds are unlikely to be interested they are too stuffed with road kill. I once came across two lads in Sidmouth with an almost decomposed skull. When they told me where the rest of him was the body was incomplete but I suspect foxes unless we've some scarily big birds.
What's required is a little sideways thinking. The body should be left to a 'body farm' with the method of decomposition/ disposal specified.
ReplyDeleteFrankly I think the birds are unlikely to be interested they are too stuffed with road kill. I once came across two lads in Sidmouth with an almost decomposed skull. When they told me where the rest of him was the body was incomplete but I suspect foxes unless we've some scarily big birds.