uncle can't find a place to bury nephew

[nadinbrzezinski]

45. It depends what branch of the Catholic Church you talk to

The orthodox ones insist that you cannot do any organ donations, the far extreme even blood. And burning the body...you nuts? The more liberal, sure whatever.

We used to deal with this regularly, why I became too knowing of this. Hell, the order that did a lot of the nursing, Carmelites, had to be convinced that removing corneas (at the trauma unit minutes preferably after death) was a good thing.

As to other branches of Christianity, again depends on how conservative they are.

It's the same way with Judaism. I am an organ donor, which truly horrified my dad.

I am almost sure that Islam, as it joins the 21st century, will go through the same transformation. The internal conflict over less esoteric subjects is pretty much there already.

I also would like to know the conflict between the uncle and the parents. I am sure it's there.

I am willing to bet that a small group of American and European Muslims are cremating bodies, but somehow I don't think the Tsarnaev's are that progressive. And partly burying the body is actually about us showing to be far less vindictive to a hunk of flesh that is already rotting... You can't fight nature...

Of course, the US Airforce (you will have that problem with civilian airlines) could just fly the body to Moscow, with the Uncle's blessing, and let the FSB do the body delivery to the parents...this is not likely.