Pardon me for being graphic, but, I am about to die and, on this issue, I DO have experience.
I lost my first pregnancy at 8 weeks.
Since it was during a trip to the bathroom, and I was shocked to see I was bleeding, I hurriedly cleaned myself up and called my husband to take me to the doctor. What I had lost, I FLUSHED? When I reached the hospital, it turned out I had lost everything.
Now, being, at that time, a practicing Catholic, I feared I may have commited some horrible sin by not having had whatever it was that I losts blessed by a priest. Like, had I sentenced my unborn child to pergutory for all eternity.
The priest informed me that I had done no wrong, committed n o sin, as what had been lost was not yet a living human and therefore had no soul. He added, there is no human life until God gives it the bvreath of lilfe.
Now this was just a parish priest, not the pope, not even an arch bishhip. But that was his assessment of what was acceptable to the Roman Catholic Church at the time.
My aunt, a generation before me, was also a practicing Catholic, lost four pregnanciees to miscarriage, and, although she was visited, for comfort, by the priests in the hospital, there was never any discussion of a funderal, or a burial, or a cremation, or whatever. I never heard of my aunt being required to bring "something home from the hospital," and bury it in the backyard, like a dead puppy.
I think your early thoughts of having to dispose of monthly eggs in some ritualistic fashion is excellelnt.
The undertakers don't make enough money now? Is that it? I wonder who is lobbying the hardest to bury a teaspoonfull of tissue and what will be the basic charge to cremate same.
Sorry for the graphic nature, but, dammit, this is just plain ridiculous, and even more disgusting to be offered as an intelligent human activity thqn my graphic discription of revulsion.
I hope someone does start selling "Sacred Egg Disposal Vessels," boldly and blatantly. I hope they put symbols on them. Crosses. Little Madonnas? Make parents buy "tickets" to paradise for the little container. And then have a van driving around with clouds and angels and collect a fee for picking the destroyed eggs. Yeah. That sounds like a real good job for a whole bunch of people out of work. Run to your nearest funeral home. They're gonna need a whole lot of help.
And gues where the stuff is going to end up, no matter whether it is flushed, burned, buried, or put into a landfill.? And then I can't' wait for the number of police and crime scene specialists who are going to have to take into custody and examine any thing that even remoterly resembles bloody tissue to make sure it isn't a "murder," or an embryo which has been d isposed of without due worshipful respect. Never mind the anquish of the mother who has lost a child.
Sometimes I wish I could be a believer again so I could say, "Oh, Please, God. Help us. Stop this madness. Please." and think that there was any help anywhere that could or would respond. If God could not stop what happened in the Crusades, the Spanish inquisition, the Holocaust, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Somalia, Sri Linka, 9/11 and all of the other slaughters, then there is ample evidence for me to conclude there is no perfect loving being who has the least interest in the affairs of human life.
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