Saturday, December 24, 2011
Burke and Hare
While reading the part about Burke and Hare, I had a flashback to an earlier time when I read something similar to what they did. I started to get visuals in my head of their actions. I find it sickening that they would kill people and sell them for money (This really reminds me of Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp. He killed his customers like Burke and Hare did, except he used the dead bodies to provide meat for his accomplice's meat pies.) I also find it ironic that Burke ended up with the same fate as his customers that he so willingly murdered, and sold; he was hanged and became a cadaver afterward. During these times, they usually let murderers become cadavers, but is this fair? Should they have used murderers as cadavers for a "punishment" and should they still do this with contemperary murderers?
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I feel like those people who are going to jail for life or will be getting the death penalty should be used as cadavers. After all these people have done to society I believe they should give back in some way and becoming cadavers for science should be exactly that. I do not feel it is a punishment but I do feel like it is a sacrifice. Every person that enters jail for murder or rape should have to sacrifice their body for science once they die. This is just what I believe due to science needing so many cadavers why not take those that did nothing but harm to society?
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