Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body is in Worcester funeral home where services are being planned

[avaistheone1]

Source: Boston.com

The owner of the Worcester funeral home where the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is now being held said he was not making a statement about the alleged crimes of Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar.

“I’m not honoring a terrorist. I’m just burying a body,” Peter Stefan, owner of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors, told the Telegram & Gazette today.

Stefan was quoted by the newspaper as saying that he believes that everyone should be treated with dignity after their death. He said he is prepared to face protests.

“Don’t do it? OK, what do you suggest I do? What would you do?” Stefan told the Telegram.

Read more: http://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/05/03/tamelan-tsarnaev-body-longer-north-attleboro-funeral-home-company-says/v6NAWytPxh5SR4p7q2hMxM/story.html

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The body was brought to North Attleboro funeral home temporarily and was transported to the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester. The Worcester parlor owner braces for protests and is searching for a cemetery that will accept Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body.

[hlthe2b]

1. This guy is going to be absolutely hounded... or worse.

I wish him well, but this is going to be hard on him.

[avaistheone1]

3. It sounds like it.

Per the article the owner has a reputation for helping out the homeless and the down and out.
Hopefully the community will see his stepping forward as good gesture on his part.

[Wait Wut]

4. Agreed.

I'm worried about the guy. I thought they weren't going to announce the name of the funeral parlor?

[FailureToCommunicate]

31. Probably not. This man has a long history of helping out with needs of poor and indigent.

He MAY have a problem finding a cemetery to take that wretched piece of dirt. But that won't be his problem.

[MADem]

41. Once the body is outta there, the story is, too.

Cooler heads will eventually prevail.

[msongs]

2. so why doesn't his loving family take care of this? nt

[DonViejo]

6. They have and they are...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014473217

[FarPoint]

5. The man is dead...

who he was, what he did is in the past because he is dead. The body is but a shell. The funeral is for the family to process the changes in their lives and to reflect upon the life impact of the deceased. That is what it is about. I have no problem with it....

[JimDandy]

16. What you said n/t

[ColesCountyDem]

17. +1000

[Immabk]

25. ok, then burn the body toss the ashes in the sewer and buy the family

A round of shots and beers to wake him.
He does not deserve a place of rest or honor. Those are rights reserved for bodies formerly inhabited by souls not demons.

Honor the victims and heroes. Pity his family. Screw his body.

[MADem]

42. Cremation is against his religion--can't do that without risking MAJOR "fundie" backlash.

It would make a bad situation worse.

[24601]

7. Nothing heard from the WBC? No "God hates bombers" or other witty comments?

[roamer65]

13. Lol u were reading my mind.

Where's the WBC morons?

[Posteritatis]

20. Cheering the deaths he caused. (nt)

[freshwest]

26. Yep. Took a show of force by union thugs to stop their pissing on the graves of the victims recently

Always classy, like the other ghouls seeking to make a buck off the dead.

[No Vested Interest]

8. The funeral director is performing an act

of charity by treating the remains of this reviled man in a respectful manner.

He is performing the duties of his profession, just as the doctors at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston attended to this brother.
I salute him.

[avaistheone1]

9. Well said.

[NNadir]

12. I agree.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. It's an act of commerce, of business, the funeral director profits, it is not charity

Wealthy Uncle Ruslan the international energy attorney is paying for this. The funeral provider could of course donate the proceeds to the funds for the victims if this is supposed to be some great ethical action to gather up thousands for prepping the body.
Charity is when no profit is made. This is just business.

[No Vested Interest]

32. There is more than one definition

of charity.
I use the word in another context than the one to which you refer.
I believe some of the other comment responders understood that.

[MADem]

43. Do you know this funeral director? How do you know what he intends to do with the money given him

to wash this corpse and wrap it in an unseamed cloth?

He has experience preparing bodies for Muslim burial. He is known for providing low cost burials for the needy.

It's not just business. Your remarks are intemperate and inaccurate.

[JohnnyLib2]

24. Yes. Good for him.

[freshwest]

27. Also. This is the right thing to do.

[cosmicone]

10. So now his grave will be a major memorial

for all the martyr wannabes to come visit to avenge his death at the hands of the imperialist forces.

Thank god we didn't do this for Usama bin Laden.

[freshwest]

29. I thought his body was going to be shipped afterwards to his parents?

[JI7]

11. the type of people who will attack this person over something like this

they have to be really stupid fucked up shit to do that.

[GeorgeGist]

23. There here

[Xipe Totec]

14. May the Earth vomit his stenching carcass. nt

[nolabear]

18. Those who bury our dead have had a remarkable place in all societies.

It's a remarkable profession, one with no secrets and all secrets. People revile them, are afraid of them, are grateful to them, are suspicious of them. They are seen as having magical powers, as being perverse, as being untouchable.

In truth, they perform a service. Something has to be done and most of us are legally and emotionally unable to do it. No matter who you are, or what you did, or what you believe, someone has to take care of the vessel you walk around in when you leave it.

I wish him luck.

[calimary]

34. Man, beautifully expressed, nolabear!

Particularly this part:

"...someone has to take care of the vessel you walk around in when you leave it."

So true.

[SunSeeker]

19. I thought the parents were going to bring his body back to Chechnya or Dagestan?

[mc51tc]

21. They buried Lee Harvey Oswald in Ft. Worth, Texas

He was also was extremely hated at the time too and still is by most! The cemetery is Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park. You can view it here: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=781

Cremation would be better in this case for sure! I feel for the good people of Boston.

[In_The_Wind]

35. Hello ~ mc51tc

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[mc51tc]

37. Thanks for the welcome!

It is great to be here responding after being a reader/supporter for many years!

[In_The_Wind]

38. How long have you been reading only?

Account status: Active
Member since: Fri May 3, 2013, 07:28 PM
Number of posts: 4
Number of posts, last 90 days: 4

Or are you one of our returning DUers who took a break?

[MADem]

44. No--cremation is viewed as desecration by Muslims.

Burial at sea is the best option; it's not optimal, but it is permissible under Islamic religious practices.

[rightsideout]

22. Stuff TNT up his ass and light it up

KA BOOM SPLAT

But seriously. This is a problem. If the public knows where he's buried the grave will be desecrated and the cemetery damaged. No cemetery in their right mind would accept the burial unless he buried in an unmarked grave like the indigent part of a cemetery where many of those graves are unmarked or if he's buried in a prison cemetery. Best thing to do is cremate him and ship him back to momma or drop ship him in the ocean like they did with OBL.

[Dash87]

28. People being idiots example #500234

Let him be buried in peace and leave this poor guy (who's just doing his job) alone. It's just a body.

[MannyGoldstein]

30. There won't be any trouble.

Massachusetts doesn't work that way.

People will respect the family, and understand that the corpse is a corpse.

[Marrah_G]

48. I agree

I think people here are smart enough to realize that bodies need to be buried.

[ChazII]

33. An honorable man. n/t

[ButterflyBlood]

36. Dump his body in the ocean bin Laden style

Or just cremate him and the ashes scatter. He doesn't need a burial place.

[Marrah_G]

47. I don't think that is who we want to be as a society

[marble falls]

39. Because abusing corpses is what make America so freaking awesome and great.

[Sheldon Cooper]

40. Seriously.

Some of these comments are just disgusting. And if the people making them claim to be Christians, I'd have to ask them if this is what their Jesus would do.

[marble falls]

45. It absolutely drives me crazy. Most of the comments seem like Teabilly-like.

[Marrah_G]

46. Every body needs to be buried

I think people upset by this are just not thinking straight.