Update: Gladys Hammond's Remains Recovered

[vgnwtch]

Body find is grave theft remains
Remains found by officers investigating the desecration of a grave in Staffordshire have been confirmed as those of Gladys Hammond

Comments

[vgnwtch]

I'm open to it being either mentally unstable people in AR (because, sadly, not all people involved in good causes are sane or reasonable), or those deliberately trying to discredit the movement, or even a combination of the two.

[vgnwtch]

They don't, but the people left behind care very much indeed. I know that if my husband was killed on the street tomorrow, his body would be buried in an eco-funeral to rot down into the Earth. His body is part of who he is, not the whole, and once he's gone, he's gone. But if someone then dug him up, it would feel like the most awful violation. It is not entirely rational, but it is an exceptionally emotionally traumatic experience, and anyone who exhumes a corpse knows this. This was clearly done to cause maximum distress to the family and to communicate to them absolute disrespect and to intimidate. It's a violation of privacy, religious and cultural taboos, and it hits a very primal part of us. Whoever did this, regardless of their connection with AR or otherwise, is an utter shit.

[friend_of_tofu]

Yes, but papers describing Mrs Hammond ie her corpse as the 'AR victim' are clearly being manipulative. It's debatable whether a dead person could be a 'victim' of anything, with the exception of their own murder. That didn't happen here, but the implication is that it's almost as bad.

I don't trust anything about this affair. It's all extremely suspicious.