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- Title
Desecration.
- Authors
Deneen, Patrick J.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the discovery of hundreds of unburied corpses on the property of the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Georgia, what the author describes as the desecration of the human body in Georgia. The word invoked most often in regard to what awful deeds transpired on those grounds is desecration, meaning a de-consecration, or de-sacralization of something holy. The reaction of people, both those bereaved and those reading or hearing about the gruesome findings from a distance, has been something approaching universal disgust and abhorrence that recalls and confirms what Leon R. Kass has referred to as the wisdom of repugnance. What has been nearly as surprising as the discovery of 339 corpses--if anything can approach by comparison that brute abhorrent fact--is that there exists no statute in Georgia under which the owner of the Tri-State Crematory, Ray Brent Marsh, might be prosecuted directly for this desecration of the human body.
- Subjects
NOBLE (Ga.); GEORGIA; SACRILEGE; RELIGIOUS crimes; CEMETERY desecration; CREMATION; HUMAN body; CORPSE removals; KASS, Leon R.
- Publication
Society, 2002, Vol 39, Issue 6, p48
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12115-002-1004-6