List of ways people dishonor the dead

List of ways people dishonor the dead

List of ways people dishonor the dead[]

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Body snatching is the secret removal of corpses from burial sites. A common purpose of body snatching, especially in the 19th century, was to sell the corpses for dissection or anatomy lectures in medical schools.^[1]

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Damnatio memoriae Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts.^[2]
Decanonization exclusion of a person's name from the list, catalog; the opposite of canonization.
Desecration of graves involves intentional acts of vandalism or destruction in places where humans are interred and includes grave sites and Grave markers.

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Gibbeting is any instrument of public execution (including guillotine, executioner's block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold), but gibbeting refers to the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals.^[3]
Grave robbery is the act of uncovering a grave, tomb or crypt to steal commodities.

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Headhunting is the practice of hunting a human and collecting the severed head after killing the victim, although sometimes more portable body parts (such as ear, nose or scalp) are taken instead as trophies.
Human trophy collecting involves the acquisition of human body parts as trophy, usually as war trophy. Or as a status symbol of superior masculinity. Psychopathic serial murderers' collection of their victims' body parts have also been described as a form of trophy-taking; the FBI draws a distinction between souvenirs and trophies in this regard.^[4]

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Maschalismos is the practice of physically rendering the dead incapable of rising or haunting the living in undead form.

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Urinate on someone's grave As a form of disrespect a person urinates on the decedent's grave^[6]
Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment.

References[]

^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Body-Snatching". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 112.
^ Omissi, Adrastos (28 June 2018). Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy. OUP Oxford. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-19-255827-5. Archived from the original on 7 November 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
^ Pettifer, Ernest (1992). Punishments of Former Days. Winchester: Waterside Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-8-72870-05-2.
^ Harold Schechter; David Everitt (4 July 2006). The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Simon and Schuster. p. 290. ISBN 978-1-4165-2174-7. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
^ Goodwin, Robin; Cranmer, Duncan, eds. (2002). Inappropriate Relationships: The Unconventional, the Disapproved, and the Forbidden. London, England: Psychology Press. pp. 174–176. ISBN 978-0805837421.
^ Gantt, Darin (24 July 2014). "Modell family wants to press charges against grave urinator". Pro football Talk. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.

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List of ways people dishonor the dead

List of ways people dishonor the dead[]