Soap from the Dead

Victim statements at the sentencing of a funeral fraudster in the Christian state of Colorado have received justice and more from an ever-tactful Press. The entrepreneur in question exploited grieving people and the taxpayer by taking money for cremations which were not carried out, the bodies instead being left in a derelict building. To an inferior sense of justice this deception of the bereaved and health hazard to the general public might be considered bad enough; but the Christian state of Colorado felt it necessary to provide an epilogue to the trial in the form of testimony from a child whose grief has been compounded by tales that his grandmother still exists but nevertheless remains lost to him, as well as from people who believe that a person's dead body is a person. One such flew several thousand miles to testify about the pulp-horror indignities supposedly inflicted on his mother, who in fact was deceased and therefore presumably absent from the ugly proceedings. The Press reported that the building where the bodies were stored was squat; apparently a less dimensionally challenged rotting-place could have mitigated the offence perceptibly.