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Via Howard Friedman, a report that the high court of South Korea has banned columbariums even in churches when those columbariums—columbaria?—are near schools.
The problem is that any reminder of death is “likely to have a negative emotional impact on students.” Negative how? Can I suggest that the court read a little more deeply into what death is for?
August 6th, 2009 | 1:31 pm
I don’t know enough about the cultures to propose a hypothesis, but it seems odd to me that both Korea and China seem to have serious taboos about dead bodies, which seems strange to me for cultures that are so influenced by Confucian ancestor worship and Buddhism. Is there a correlation there?
August 6th, 2009 | 7:54 pm
I’m sure the Koreans are competent enough to sort these things out for themselves without being second guessed by American Christian right people. Given that a substantial percentage of the South Korean population (20-40%) is Christian, I’m sure the Christian Koreans have had their input into this issue.
BTW, last time I visited, San Francisco was a perfectly functional city by any reasonable standards. I don’t think the lack of cemeteries there has had any deleterious effect upon either their city government or their social culture in general.
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