From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   Fundamentalists take everything literally.    
      
   Preservation of the body is commonly viewed as a sign of   
   Divinity. In Christianity it was always the sure sign of a    
   Saint. It seems to be one of the reasons for Lennon’s   
   Preservation & display, as the state was meant to take   
   The place of the church.   
      
      ...I recall the famous story of a Buddhist monk who   
   Instructed his underlings, or whatever they were, to   
   Seal away his body, wait a specific time and then check   
   If he had decomposed. If he hadn’t THEN the could   
   Venerate him... buy covering him in gold.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)