[Video] Body Garden

[dirge]

[The drone captures Dirge's huge form half in shadow perched on the roof of an old mausoleum, surveying the graveyard below like some hideous teal vulture.]

I don't understand...

[He mutters, claws tapping at the ancient stone statue of whomever is interred there curiously. He pinches the chin and squints into its eyes for a moment before shaking his head.]

What is the point of this ritual?

[Dirge jumps down, landing on all fours and crouching near a tombstone.]

What a terrible waste! Body parts are so very useful...

[He flicks the grave and it pitches forward a little.] Why bury them in the ground? Or lock them in boxes? Is someone saving these for later?

I know decaying organic can be used to grow things. People bring flowers, but they do not plant them.

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[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[To reply, or not to reply? Sam would waffle, but... someone should say something, and it might as well be her.]

Well, a part of it is to show respect for the dead. If the remains of the dead are treated in a disrespectful way, they're more likely to return as unhappy ghosts, and unhappy ghosts can do a lot to make the living unhappy alongside 'em.

Re: [video]

[dirge]

What is so disrespectful about reusing them? They want to rot? To be wasted?

[He wishes now he had asked one of the ghosts that were around a few weeks back. Well, not the one specific ghost....who was still....around. Best not to think about him lest it somehow summon him.]

[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

That... varies a lot, depending on what a person believes. On one end of the spectrum, some people get their remains buried with things specifically for their use after life, but on the other end of the spectrum some people have their remains cremated and the ashes scattered. Different people have sometimes very different ideas about respectful remains-handling.

Re: [video]

[dirge]

After life? [Do others have the ability he and his siblings possess...? Dirge's optics shift to the side.]

[And then he scowls.] Why do they care anyhow? They're dead!

[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

The 'next world,' or 'underworld,' or wherever it is a spirit goes upon 'moving on.'

So? There's a difference between being dead and being dead and gone, and the dead being unable to use a thing doesn't mean they're no longer interested in what befalls it. You got stuff you can't use because you're too big, but I bet you still care what becomes of your stuff.

Re: [video]

[dirge]

Wait- There is something after death? [Why has no one told him about this?]


I don't have to be able to use something to own it. [He scoffs. Which really just proves her point.]

So basically, you're telling me ghosts will be pissed if I take their dead bodies. [Why are ghosts always potentially angry with him?]

[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Sure seems like it.

See? Ghosts don't have to be able to use something to own it either!

Ghosts got a rep for being possessive.