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Si vous pensez avoir tout entendu en matière de pratiques macabres, lisez l'article de "The Economist" de cette semaine (ci dessous).
On y apprend qu'en Chine, une tradition dite des "mariages fantômes", exige qu'un homme et sa femme morts partagent la même tombe. Si un homme décède alors qu'il n'était pas marié, ses parents chercheraient le cadavre d'une femme, organiseraient un "mariage fantôme" et les enterreraient dans la même tombe.
Du coup, un marché noir des cadavres s'est crée notamment dans les régions minières où les décès accidentels de "jeunes mineurs" sont fréquents. Du coup, les trafiquants volent les cadavres des femmes (cimetières, morgues...etc) pour les vendre. L'inflation est telle que le cadavre d'une femme récemment morte coûte 10 fois plus que celui d'une femme au cadavre "abîmé". Pour "se fournir" rapidement, certains tuent des femmes pour vendre leurs cadavres "encore chauds" entre 4000 et 5300 dollars (une fortune pour un chinois). Un criminel a avoué avoir étranglé 6 femmes et vendu leurs corps...:22:
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China's corpse brides - Wet goods and dry goods
A MEMBER of the Chao clan of Gelao village in Shaanxi province was paying her respects recently to a newly buried female relative. She noticed a wheat stalk stuck in the mound of earth with a ribbon tied to it. Alarmed, she alerted her relatives. At 11 o'clock that evening, they ambushed two grave robbers who were starting to dig up the body. A member of the Chao family told a friend from the Wang clan in a nearby village, who had just buried one of its womenfolk. Clan members found nothing suspicious at the grave but the next day came across a large plastic bag in a ditch. Sure enough, it contained the body of their relative, exhumed and waiting for collection.
Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called “ghost marriages”. Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives always share a grave. Sometimes, when a man died unmarried, his parents would procure the body of a woman, hold a “wedding” and bury the couple together.
The custom has a long history. In the legends of the classical romance of the “Three Kingdoms”, the warlord Cao Cao finds a corpse bride for his son who died in 208 AD at the tender age of 13.
The communists discouraged burials and suppressed ghost marriages as “feudal superstition”. Yet ancient beliefs die hard. As Marxism wanes, burials are reappearing—and so are corpse brides.
The practice is most common in the northern provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong. This is China's coal-mining heartland. In mountainous Shanxi, pit accidents kill many men too young to marry. Compensation to the family is spent on giving their son a wife in the afterlife.
A black market has sprung up to supply corpse brides. Marriage brokers—usually respectable folk who find brides for village men—account for most of the middlemen. At the bottom of the supply chain come hospital mortuaries, funeral parlours, body snatchers—and now murderers.
On March 7th this year, a local newspaper, Huashang Bao, reported that demand for corpse brides had led to sustained inflation. A top-quality piece of “wet” (recently deceased) merchandise that the newspaper said would have sold for a few thousand yuan four years ago now goes for 30,000-40,000 yuan ($4,000-5,300). In contrast, “dry goods” (long buried) fetch just 300-500 yuan down the Shanxi coal mines.
Such incentives prompted Song Tiantang to kill. In the late 1990s he had made money supplying the market by robbing graves. Mr Song (whose name is a homonym for the phrase “to send someone to heaven”) was jailed after he dropped his mobile phone at a grave he had plundered: the police used it to track him down. This January he was arrested again and confessed to strangling six women and selling their bodies. Killing for corpses, he said, was an easier way to make money than digging them out of the ground.
source : The Economist
On y apprend qu'en Chine, une tradition dite des "mariages fantômes", exige qu'un homme et sa femme morts partagent la même tombe. Si un homme décède alors qu'il n'était pas marié, ses parents chercheraient le cadavre d'une femme, organiseraient un "mariage fantôme" et les enterreraient dans la même tombe.
Du coup, un marché noir des cadavres s'est crée notamment dans les régions minières où les décès accidentels de "jeunes mineurs" sont fréquents. Du coup, les trafiquants volent les cadavres des femmes (cimetières, morgues...etc) pour les vendre. L'inflation est telle que le cadavre d'une femme récemment morte coûte 10 fois plus que celui d'une femme au cadavre "abîmé". Pour "se fournir" rapidement, certains tuent des femmes pour vendre leurs cadavres "encore chauds" entre 4000 et 5300 dollars (une fortune pour un chinois). Un criminel a avoué avoir étranglé 6 femmes et vendu leurs corps...:22:
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China's corpse brides - Wet goods and dry goods
A MEMBER of the Chao clan of Gelao village in Shaanxi province was paying her respects recently to a newly buried female relative. She noticed a wheat stalk stuck in the mound of earth with a ribbon tied to it. Alarmed, she alerted her relatives. At 11 o'clock that evening, they ambushed two grave robbers who were starting to dig up the body. A member of the Chao family told a friend from the Wang clan in a nearby village, who had just buried one of its womenfolk. Clan members found nothing suspicious at the grave but the next day came across a large plastic bag in a ditch. Sure enough, it contained the body of their relative, exhumed and waiting for collection.
Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called “ghost marriages”. Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives always share a grave. Sometimes, when a man died unmarried, his parents would procure the body of a woman, hold a “wedding” and bury the couple together.
The custom has a long history. In the legends of the classical romance of the “Three Kingdoms”, the warlord Cao Cao finds a corpse bride for his son who died in 208 AD at the tender age of 13.
The communists discouraged burials and suppressed ghost marriages as “feudal superstition”. Yet ancient beliefs die hard. As Marxism wanes, burials are reappearing—and so are corpse brides.
The practice is most common in the northern provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong. This is China's coal-mining heartland. In mountainous Shanxi, pit accidents kill many men too young to marry. Compensation to the family is spent on giving their son a wife in the afterlife.
A black market has sprung up to supply corpse brides. Marriage brokers—usually respectable folk who find brides for village men—account for most of the middlemen. At the bottom of the supply chain come hospital mortuaries, funeral parlours, body snatchers—and now murderers.
On March 7th this year, a local newspaper, Huashang Bao, reported that demand for corpse brides had led to sustained inflation. A top-quality piece of “wet” (recently deceased) merchandise that the newspaper said would have sold for a few thousand yuan four years ago now goes for 30,000-40,000 yuan ($4,000-5,300). In contrast, “dry goods” (long buried) fetch just 300-500 yuan down the Shanxi coal mines.
Such incentives prompted Song Tiantang to kill. In the late 1990s he had made money supplying the market by robbing graves. Mr Song (whose name is a homonym for the phrase “to send someone to heaven”) was jailed after he dropped his mobile phone at a grave he had plundered: the police used it to track him down. This January he was arrested again and confessed to strangling six women and selling their bodies. Killing for corpses, he said, was an easier way to make money than digging them out of the ground.
source : The Economist
........................aux états unis, il existe un restaurant de chaire humaine, la personne avant de mourir fait don de son corp au restaurant pour être dégusté.........il parait que ça coute drolement cher la chaire humaine là bas 
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