HIGHLA-L Digest - 31 Dec 2002 to 5 Jan 2003 (#2003-1)
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1. About those bodies... (4)
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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:47:45 -0500
From: jjswbt@earthlink.net
Subject: About those bodies...
No, I'm not some mewling newbie..but this issue still bothers me after 10 years <g>
Not the issue of how one gets rid of the bodies of the "bad" guys...there is always a sewer to drop them down, the Seine, a dumpster, a butcher shop<eg> or just the old fashioned shallow hole in the garden/forest/swamp/snow/jungle Etc.
But...what about the bodies of the "good" guys to whom you want to give a decent burial? Did John just carry Rebecca's two piece corpse to the local mortuary and say "take care of this for me"? What about Richie? Who cremated Darius?
I know we've always just accepted that the police in the HL world were dumber than dirt (although LeBrun was closing in before he disappeared)(Did Duncan "disappear"him?) but I'd rather not extend that dumbness to every other profession. Is there a network of underground <snerk> morticians that handles mob hits and Immortal beheadings? Do-it-yourself funeral parlours?
Wendy(So...OK ...it's snowing, I can't go out to see TTT again, and I'm bored.)
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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:10:33 EST
From: Highlandmg@aol.com
Subject: Re: About those bodies...
Hi
I think the watchers who owned a funeral parlor here and there. They need to
earn money.. Joe owned the book store then the bar.
Mary
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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 18:51:05 -0700
From: Pat Lawson <plawson@webleyweb.com>
Subject: Re: About those bodies...
Mary wrote:
> I think the watchers who owned a funeral parlor here and there. They need to
>earn money.. Joe owned the book store then the bar.
I agree it's possible the watchers owned funeral parlors. That may be how
Duncan got Darius creamated.
That doesn't solve the problem in most cases. Until very recently the
watchers were a secret organization. What did Duncan do before he met
Joe? How did John deal with Rebecca's remains?
Pat L.
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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:35:29 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: About those bodies...
Pat--
> I agree it's possible the watchers owned funeral parlors. That may be
how
> Duncan got Darius creamated.
Darius was creamated? So, it wasn't exactly _ashes_ that DM dumped into the
Seine....
> That doesn't solve the problem in most cases. Until very recently the
> watchers were a secret organization. What did Duncan do before he met
> Joe? How did John deal with Rebecca's remains?
I don't think the Watchers clean up after the Immie battles--doing so would
have blown the organization's cover ages ago.
It all ties into the deeply stupid law enforcement officials who MUST be
employed in Seacouver & Paris (as well as in Sunnydale). The problem isn't
that the people who do the necessaries re: death & burial wouldn't handle
beheaded bodies--the problem is that they would routinely report it all to
the cops....who must be deeply stupid never to check into the circumstances.
Wendy--
> No, I'm not some mewling newbie..but this issue still bothers me after 10
years <g>
Katana-space be damned--I confess to STILL wondering how Immies sit down so
confidently in their sword-carrying coats.
Nina
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