You've got to wonder, with the latest body snatching case, does this mean that anyone could steal a person's body? Apparently the police can do nothing because the body doesn't belong to anyone.
So, what if a satanic group needed a body to mutilate before setting it on fire in a bizarre religious rite? Could they go down to the nearest funeral home and just take off with any body that takes their fancy? Or how about something a bit more likely - a medical teaching facility that runs out of cadavers. Is there anything in law that stops them from being able to load up from the hospital morgue?
I suppose most people wouldn't have even thought of taking a body from grieving relatives, and that and respect for the dead, has probably been the only only thing stopping body snatching from happening more often. That, and the expectation that doing so was not legal. Yet, there is a legal black hole here. A legal black hole that needs to be filled.
Related Link: Woman's body snatched from hearse
So, what if a satanic group needed a body to mutilate before setting it on fire in a bizarre religious rite? Could they go down to the nearest funeral home and just take off with any body that takes their fancy? Or how about something a bit more likely - a medical teaching facility that runs out of cadavers. Is there anything in law that stops them from being able to load up from the hospital morgue?
I suppose most people wouldn't have even thought of taking a body from grieving relatives, and that and respect for the dead, has probably been the only only thing stopping body snatching from happening more often. That, and the expectation that doing so was not legal. Yet, there is a legal black hole here. A legal black hole that needs to be filled.
Related Link: Woman's body snatched from hearse
actually I think the children abusing children story covered by national radio this morning is rather important.
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"actually I think the children abusing children story covered by national radio this morning is rather important.
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Yep. Been saying this for sometime.
Children abusing children is on a far grander scale than Cindy Kiro and Sue B going off their 'demented nuts' about some child 'feeling' a bit of pain from a smack from an adult for being naughty.
The pain and anguish of unwanted physical and sexual abuse at the hands of other children is more mentally and emotionaly 'scarring' on a child than a smack!
does this mean that anyone could steal a person's body?
ReplyDeleteI hate to say this, but I'm betting if you were a Pakeha body-snatcher the Police would be knocking at your door within the half-hour telling you to give it back.
It's reverse-racism.
Have noticed link might not work.
ReplyDeleteFind audio feature here:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/home
Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
906am on Thursday 6th March.
20 minutes long.
It's not reverse racism, it's racism - the different treatment of someone on the basis of skin colour.
ReplyDeleteIf it is true that "noone owns a body" why do we have to give specific assent to post mortem organ donation?
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, the relatives of donors can veto donation.
Together this suggests that a dead body, which contains organs, is under the care and responsibility of someone and is not "owned by noone".
On the radio tonight, the police used the pathetic excuse that they didn't act for fear of making a cultural error.
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean breaking the law is only applied to "white people"? Do they realise for one moment how stupid they sound?
Yes and no Zen.
ReplyDeleteOk quick question.
ReplyDeleteThje body is a coffin which was paid for and owned by....?
This not theft?
Theft of human remains IS an offence.
Offering indignity to a body IS an offence.
The police didn't do the jobs for which we are paying them because... the offenders were Maori.
No. Not acceptable. The enxt funeral of any of my rellies I go to I might just have to take mr shotty along.
In case there's rabbits.
The law is the law and property rights are property rights--until Maori are involved.
ReplyDeleteIt then becomes the law is the law--with some exceptions and property rights are..um...negotiable, sort of. Depends who wants your property.
Dear NZ Police.
ReplyDeleteYou gutless wonders!
"Does this mean breaking the law is only applied to "white people"? Do they realise for one moment how stupid they sound?"
ReplyDeleteEr, unfortunately in some cases yes.
I.E If I put a roadblock on my local road and demanded money from passing motorists and intimidation. The Boys in Blue would be around to take me away. While in places in parts of Northland and elsewhere this is regularly occurring and the police won't act because of 'cultural sensitivies'. Often weedle out and say it a local council matter.
You can be fined and arrested for interferring with the remains of the dead. I.E digging up graves etc, so the police could use similar powers against these body snatching incidents.
If your refering to this story
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You will be glad to know the police have gone in, with the family and retrieved the body.
Bout [expletive] time!
ReplyDeleteBut still too [expletive] late.
Dear NZ Police,
ReplyDeleteI retract my previous comment.
It's too late, Anon. They already have you on file.
ReplyDeleteJust be aware that when you are dead, they will not be coming for you. That will teach you a lesson you are not likely to forget in a hurry.
What are you people gullible or what?
ReplyDeleteOf course there's law for this.
Has mankind made it this far, only to discover for the first time in March 2008, in a country called New Zealand, that there is such a thing as death?
It's been around since time began!
There is nothing new under the sun. We have provisions in place already. I cannot believe the media has let this family spokesperson run the story for them. And then get the Government to agree "oh yes, we'll make new law" just like always.
Knee-jerk bloody law-making, here we go again.
Why don't they bother doing some investigative journalism. Interview a bloody lawyer!
I'll sort this one out.