South Koreans are scrambling to incinerate their dead like never before, a trend that has forced the government to revise the law and allow funeral homes to cremate bodies, rather than ship them to one of only four crematoriums in the entire nation. That certainly seems like a much-needed legal step, given the recent increase [...]
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Let Me Stand Inside Your Fire
February 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags:burial·cremation·economics·South Korea·Tennessee·Washington
The Demise of “Criminal Insanity”
November 30th, 2009 · 7 Comments
In reading about the murder of four police officers near Tacoma, we were most struck by the prime suspect’s obvious paranoid schizophrenia—a disease that seems to have been wholly untreated, in part because his family members were afraid of staging any sort of medical intervention:
As part of the child-rape investigation, the sheriff’s office interviewed Clemmons’ [...]
Tags:Canada·crime·criminal insanity·law·Maurice Clemmons·psychology·Washington
