Illegal trade in 'corpse brides' surges in China

[TomSea]

Illegal trade in 'corpse brides' surges in China
By Elizabeth Shim Contact the Author   |   April 5, 2017 at 9:35 AM
April 5 (UPI) -- Chinese villagers are willing to pay as much as $26,000 for female corpses they can bury with dead unmarried male relatives.

The practice of "ghost marriages," where Chinese pay their respects to the deceased with a gift of a "bride" in the afterlife, persists in rural areas despite the exorbitant costs to families.

The Chinese Communist Party banned the practice in 1949, but in recent years the tradition has returned, and with it a surge in "corpse bride"-related crimes and tomb raids, the South China Morning Post and Xinhua reported.

Trade continues because criminals can make a fortune in finding and selling dead bodies, sometimes by murder, according to the report.

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[TomSea]

Though the story may be shocking to read, to me, it definitely reads that these people definitely believe in an after-life to do such. Of course, this custom seems to be more apparent in the rural and more remote areas. India has some customs too that are puzzling.  It's just the way people are and those civilizations have been around for a long time. Maybe it is just superstition.

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Maybe it is just crazy

[TomSea]

Maybe a one-child policy, organ-harvesting and the like are crazier. Let alone, however many abortions in the US or China or anywhere else per year.