They didn't embalm the Pope? - Democratic Underground

xray s

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:35 PM
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They didn't embalm the Pope?

Edited on Tue Apr-05-05 06:51 PM by xray s

That is what CBS just said. They are waiting to see if he decays. If he doesn't it is a sign of a miracle.

OK...now this is getting too weird for me!

(edit; I guess we can officially add CBS to the Weekly World News school of journalism)

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Sannum

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:36 PM
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1. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I guess we can be thankful that it is not July:puke:

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Maple

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:36 PM
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2. Yes, they did

Stapled his mouth too...or it would fall open.

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Bluebear

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:42 PM
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8. No they didn't!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&ncid=2357&e=2&u=/ap/20050405/ap_on_re_eu/pope_body

eccch!

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Maple

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:44 PM
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13. Yeah, they did

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Bluebear

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:45 PM
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16. OK OK!

So what's with the news story?

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Maple

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:46 PM
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18. According to the news

it's been a wonderful victory in Iraq too.

Nuff said?

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Bluebear

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:47 PM
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20. Gotcha

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BlueEyedSon

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:04 PM
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25. LOL... You guys (Bear & Maple) are too funny! nt

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lavenderdiva

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Tue Apr-05-05 11:03 PM
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43. Hi Maple,

do you have a link for this? I haven't read this anywhere... just wondering.

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rodeodance

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:36 PM
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3. there is a cnn story on DU about his. Pope's request not to be.

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caligirl

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:36 PM
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4. Don't they preserve these fellows for glass case displays? More

makeup than I'v ever worn, thats for sure.

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Maple

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:38 PM
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5. The pope is embalmed

Media nonsense aside.

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Ruby Romaine

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:39 PM
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6. maybe they are saying they didn't (but they did) so it will be a miracle

when he smells Ultra Downy Fresh!! !

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Padraig18

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:41 PM
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7. Trust me--- he's embalmed.

I worked in a funeral home in high school. If he wasn't embalmed, he'd be swollen and green, not to mention reeking.

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Bluebear

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:42 PM
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10. What's with the press story?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&ncid=2357&e=2&u=/ap/20050405/ap_on_re_eu/pope_body

I don't get it.

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Padraig18

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:44 PM
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15. Who knows?

They don't shit from apple butter, if they believe he wasn't embalmed, though...

:shrug:

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alcuno

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:47 PM
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19. The organs are still there but they used a "preserving" fluid.

Whatever that means.

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Padraig18

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:48 PM
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21. It's means they emblamed him.

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lonestarnot

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Tue Apr-05-05 11:08 PM
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44. Not to mention the fact that his stomach would have already blown up

on about 200 passers by...

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doodadem

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:42 PM
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9. Warsaw wants the Pope's heart

A friend just sent me an email that Poland is wanting to part out the Pope.

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Gyre

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:45 PM
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17. and they used to be happy w/ a pile of pope poop!

"Don't forget Poland!" :)

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signmike

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:20 PM
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26. Hahaha -- eBay !!

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femme.democratique

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:43 PM
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11. I was reading about this today...pix of Incorruptible saints!

Edited on Tue Apr-05-05 06:43 PM by femme.democratique

Its REALLY creepy

http://www.livingmiracles.net/Incorrupt.html

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Cooley Hurd

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:52 PM
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22. That's pretty effed up...

:puke:

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Sydnie

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:25 PM
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28. That site was quite interesting

How bizzare some of those pictures are! Thanks for sharing.

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bamademo

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:29 PM
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30. I think some of these are wax figures

Especially Bernadette.

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Adenoid_Hynkel

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Tue Apr-05-05 11:11 PM
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46. a placard admits bernadette is covered in wax

to hide her sunken eyes and blackened color

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El Supremo

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:37 PM
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32. Here is another "incorruptable" body. But he sure ain't a saint.

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DemGirl7

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Tue Apr-05-05 09:02 PM
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39. Well thats only because they wanted communism to last

and wanted to prop up Lenin's corpse with it, in a symbolic way...But as we all know Communism didn't last and I heard from one of my professors that Lenin's embalmed body is starting to get moldy now.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.....
:puke:

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Nikia

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Tue Apr-05-05 08:01 PM
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35. In rural Greece it is the oposite.

Unimbalmed bodies are buried for several years. Then they are exhumed and their bones are placed with their dead ancestors. It is considered a bad sign if their flesh didn't completely decay (as in, the Earth didn't want them). We read about it in anthropology.
I suppose that God could play along with whatever culture though.

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Dyedinthewoolliberal

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:43 PM
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12. Man, with all this coverage

I'm too pooped to Pope........

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El Supremo

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:44 PM
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14. That will sure turn some of the crowds away!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

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noamnety

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:54 PM
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23. Since the previous pope was emblamed

under highly questionable circumstances, maybe JPII didn't want the same person/family having anything to do with his body.

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WillowTree

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Tue Apr-05-05 06:58 PM
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24. Enbalmed...

....but not disemboweled was what I heard. I can't believe that the body wouldn't be getting pretty rank by now if it hadn't been, not to mention how grotesque it would look.

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LibraLiz1973

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:24 PM
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uh... this photo shows it IS getting pretty rank right now

:puke:

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ohio_liberal

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:26 PM
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29. Yahoo is doing a photo dump

There were some serious closeups but now they're gone. His face is definitely mottled on that one side. This photo is kind of dark but you can still see the brownish-looking splotches.

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Walt Starr

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Tue Apr-05-05 08:22 PM
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36. It's pretty evident from that shot that any talk of his body

not decomposing as a first miracle will be bunk!

I'm saving that photo as evidence against any claimed miraculous non-decomposition in the future!

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LibraLiz1973

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Tue Apr-05-05 08:27 PM
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37. agreed Walt Starr

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Walt Starr

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Tue Apr-05-05 08:30 PM
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38. Here's a closer shot, and am I glad I'm not a Swiss guard!

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LibraLiz1973

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Tue Apr-05-05 09:23 PM
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41. AH!!

ok. that is horrifying

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Gin

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:24 PM
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27. looked like his face was getting darker..........google news said

they prepared the body but didn't embalm it.

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peekaloo

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:31 PM
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31. Relax. Chimpy's stank will make the crowd appreciate the Pope's

lack of freshness.

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illflem

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:41 PM
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33. Read the story of Paramahansa Yogananda,

As reported in Time Magazine on August 4, 1952
The absence of any visual signs of decay in the dead body of Paramahansa Yogananda offers the most extraordinary case in our experience.... No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after death.... No indication of mold was visible on his skin, and no visible drying up took place in the bodily tissues. This state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one.... No odor of decay emanated from his body at any time....

http://www.yogananda-srf.org/mahasamadhi/yogi-lifeanddeath_e.html

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Walt Starr

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Tue Apr-05-05 07:49 PM
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34. I'm betting there's some serious ice work under the Pope

And since they shut down the viewing for like three hours each night, I bet they make sure the col down continues.

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FSogol

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Tue Apr-05-05 09:16 PM
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40. Heh, heh "Saints preserve us"

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Minstrel Boy

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Tue Apr-05-05 10:11 PM
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42. Meet St. Catherine Laboure:

Died 1876:

When her body was exhumed in 1933 it was found as fresh as the day it was buried. Though she had lived seventy years and was in the grave for fifty-seven years, her eyes remained very blue and beautiful; and in death her arms and legs were as supple as if she were asleep. Her incorrupt body is encased in glass beneath the side altar at 140 Rue du Bac, Paris, beneath one of the spots where our Lady appeared to her.

http://www.amm.org/catherine.htm

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liveoaktx

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Tue Apr-05-05 11:09 PM
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45. No wonder they keep waving incense over him....

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