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© 2018 AFPAshes of executed Aum leader to be scattered at sea
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Maria
Or, you know, someone could make sure they get to her?
simon g
send them by courier to the daughter's lawyers and then she can flush them down the toilet and we all move on. Good riddance to this sociopath. And well done young lady on speaking truth to her father's flawed teachings and followers.
Midnight Sun Tribe
Rare good news!
The mom and 3rd daughter were salivating over cashing in on selling and venerating his disgusting remains. Great to see them get screwed. I hope she does flush these down a toilet, preferably one in need of flushing.
Ricky Kaminski
With the following earthquake in Chiba and the massive rainfalls killing hundreds immediately after the death sentence completed authorities must be worried that the nutball followers will see it as a sign of his divinity , continue his murderous legacy and regroup in his martyrdom. There's no cure for crazy after all. This daughter sounds like a brave lass. Good luck to her.
Bintaro
Well, the guy paid his debt to society, it shouldn't matter who gets his remains.
He was condemned to die, not "die and having his remains desecrated".
simon g
The bones get crushed up in cases like this I've heard. There will but no celebration of his life so the bones aren't needed Crushed into flushable powder.
Midnight Sun Tribe
Bintaro,
It is in this that you are mistaken. He paid his debt to society, but if his remains are allowed to be sold and venerated, all who died will be further damaged (in memory), in that the inveterate followers would be given a "spiritual" and monetary boon by being able to sell his ashes and worship the remnants. Remember, psychotic fools paid great sums of money to drink his hair-infested bathwater; imagine what powers they attribute to his ashes. Thus, not only must all traces be destroyed, desecration repudiates the beliefs of those who still chose to honor this disgusting murderer.
Goodlucktoyou
Why is this news. He’s gone.
gogogo
What is the hat for? Why would they give him an ECG?
runner3
Gogogo.
To make sure he's dead before they bring him down.
Educator60
gogogoToday 12:42 pm JST
“What is the hat for? Why would they give him an ECG?”
If you are talking about the photo, that is a headgear contraption that was used in the AUM cult. If I remember correctly, I think that’s a photo from when he was arrested and he was wearing the headgear when they found him hiding.
Bintaro
I agree this would be a rotten thing to do, but is it a crime ?
That, I disagree. First because executing him made him a martyr anyway. Second because religious beliefs are first in the mind. Making his remains disappear wouldn't erase his reputation, cult or anything else really. It would certainly be best for his followers to have it, but it won't make them weaker not having it. They can make a story that they got his soul, or start searching for his reincarnation...
I think, on the opposite, that desecrating his body would give them ammo (Religions love to play the victim card after all). Maybe even a reason to be violent again.
Blattamexiguus
relics have been highly prized, valued and venerated in many religions.
Better they simply disappear.
still don't get how a group like Aleph can be allowed to operate. I have the same problem with Yakuza "offices"
WTF?
Ah_so
And then the fish will eat the ashes, eat the ashes....
Jonny Knoxville
Why waste boat fuel ?
Ah_so
Entirely unlike fundamentalist Islam that seeks to destroy any relics or religious iconography - even buildings over 1000 years old have been destroyed in Mecca to make sure no one views them as relics of Mohammed.
Youdon't need relics to be a bit nuts.
Luddite
Good. Common sense from the daughter.
neiton
The father's sin should not affect her daughter. I'd like you to dispose of bones promptly.