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Angeliegha "Angel" Stewart pleaded guilty to 16 counts of abuse of a corpse after taking pictures with the bodies at the Lanterman and Allen Funeral Home in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, to "gross out" her friends, reports The Morning Call.
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One of the pictures includes a corpse whose organs had been removed and another which was covered in maggots, according to WNEP. Following her arrest, prosecutors said at least two of the picutres were selfies, with Stewart posing with bodies in the background, and two included faces of dead people, the Associated Press reported at the time.
In some communities, to show respect, the dead are exhumed every few years and dressed in fresh clothes, often with a new pair of sunglasses, as if their pride over their appearance had not expired with their bodies.
"I was surprised by the vehemence, I guess, of the letters and the dead certainty that so many people had that they understood ... my motivations and feelings and who my children were," Mann tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "People feel like they understand the children just by virtue of looking at the pictures but ... those aren't my children. Those are photographs of my children. They're just a tiny, tiny moment slivered out of time, a 30th of a second."
Medieval people closely connected the body and the soul, and so the fate of a body after death was of utmost importance. Death on the battlefield was unusual, and so the ill-treatment of the bodies after the fact was also unusual. The treatment of the bodies probably speaks more to the politics of the battle than to the degree of respect afforded to the dead in the Middle Ages.
Blow flies are so-called because the larvae develop inside the bodies ofdead animals, causing the carrion to have a bloated appearance. They also areattracted to garbage. Blow flies are about the size of house flies or slightlylarger. They have been called “bottle flies” because their shiny blueand green color resemble colored glass bottles, though some species are shinyblack or bronze. Large numbers of these flies indoors usually indicates thepresence of a dead animal such as a mouse or bird inside the structure.
The volunteers in this ritual are mostly medical staff or emergency response crews who are the first unit to arrive at accident scenes to save lives (easily identifiable by their blue-and-white uniforms and ID cards). They are used to seeing dead bodies, and that is why they look nonchalant in the photos. 2ff7e9595c
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