poor dead person

[jholudckrilami]

"Somewhat more fortunate than Peron or Pol Pot was Phillippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, whom his widow Imelda stashed in a closet in a refridgerated casket, awaiting a possible homecoming. She wheeled him out for a birthday party in 1990 and later for their wedding anniversary. In 1992 Marcos was allowed to return home. He was placed in a coffin before an eternal flame, relaxing to tunes by Mozart-- until the electric company pulled the plug on his cooled corpse for nonpayment of his music and refridgeration bills."

Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies