Mental Health Portland: "Someone was cleaning out an old insane asylum and found the cremated remains of over 5,000 people tucked away in a closet. Here are some former patients of the hospital who are trying to tidy up this huge PR mess."
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Nice choice for a title! ;)
What a shameful waste. Those copper cans could fetch a pretty price at salvage.
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I wouldn't send 'em money. If the relatives are that gung-ho about finding them, they'd have found them already. And it's not like the dead crazies give a shit, right?
I'm surprised they didn't just dump them out into the Pacific ocean... or a county dump.
"Current Music: Ashtrayhead" .....
"cremated" .....
c'mon - this can not be a coincidence !! :)
No, jwz's music choices are always post-appropriate. What impresses me is, he always has a tune fit for the occasion, and I'm sure he actually does own all said tunes.
So by "post-appropriate" you mean that he selects the tune on purpose?
Yes.
I love the idea that they're getting together current and former
inmatespatients to discuss the designs for the memorial. Can you imagine the possibilities these people could come up with?It's like a J.G. Ballard novel waiting to happen.
I'm picturing a cross between Gieger and Terry Gilliam, with cement made out of the ashes...
I used to live in Salem (where the hospital is located), so I've heard quite a few horror stories about the hospital's dark past.
The details are a bit fuzzy at this point, but I believe they used to have pits where they would permanently toss people in. I'm not sure how they were treated once they were in these pits. They've since been covered or filled with cement.
You ask:
And yet you seemingly answer yourself:
Why tidy up the mess when you could just sweep it under the carpet?
The system works.
Jeezus! People's ashes in corroding cans with fading old-timey labels. That's some Silent Hill type shit right there.
--riney
Empty the cans and then EBAY BITCHES.
Those things would go like fucking hotcakes.
they would probably go for more on ebay with the contents intact. But I bet ebay has some stupid rule about no human remains or something.
It does. The cans would have to be empty and clean.
IIRC the post office won't ship human remains, either. Lazy bastards.
add boiling water and mini marshmellows for a delicious drink.
God, what an unbelievably sad story.
unless youre being sarcastic, im glad someone else was moved a little.
do any of you know how the mentally ill are treated these days, let alone however long ago?
im not a bleeding heart, the dead are gone and dont give a fuck what you do with their dust. its not an event with any personal connection to me, so its none of my business really. but the fact that some people can still care about the dignity of those who were accorded none in life kinda touches me.
one day ill be just another 'dead crazy'. the asylums are all closing down but were still around. youd think us crazies would be the last ones anybody would want to piss off...
ps - powdered insta-crazies is still funny, though :D
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Thought you might want to read/share this. Not sure of it's veracity, but it's an article about the "war" between the X and Y chromosomes in humans and other animals.
"Somewhere in our prehistoric past, X seems to have launched a massive attack on Y. It must have been a very close call. But Y succeeded in repairing itself at last. We can tell this has happened because of certain scars that are still detectable on the male chromosome."