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| rdfs:label | - A proper Christian burial
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| rdfs:comment | - A proper (alternatively, decent) Christian burial was a passing craze in dead person disposal that had its heyday in the 1950's. It is usually considered as the first successful attempt to make dying look "cool"; in 1956 alone, 150 000 American citizens committed suicide in order to glory themselves with this latest fashion fad. The ingredients to the success of PCB were surprisingly simple: instead of the traditional throwing the corpse into a ditch while mumbling "Thank the lord", the new procedure foresaw a long and arduous messing about for the ingrates that the deceased had left behind him, such as for example carrying his corpse in a heavy box really slowly around the city, listening to hour long sermons without yawning and pretending to enjoy being around sniffling old ladies dresse
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| abstract | - A proper (alternatively, decent) Christian burial was a passing craze in dead person disposal that had its heyday in the 1950's. It is usually considered as the first successful attempt to make dying look "cool"; in 1956 alone, 150 000 American citizens committed suicide in order to glory themselves with this latest fashion fad. The ingredients to the success of PCB were surprisingly simple: instead of the traditional throwing the corpse into a ditch while mumbling "Thank the lord", the new procedure foresaw a long and arduous messing about for the ingrates that the deceased had left behind him, such as for example carrying his corpse in a heavy box really slowly around the city, listening to hour long sermons without yawning and pretending to enjoy being around sniffling old ladies dressed in black. This form of burial suffered a massive decline after the successes of several Hollywood films which propagandated the idea that dead people should be cut up with a saw, put in several plastic bags and disposed of in a pond. Many have noted that this was essentially a return to pre-PCB tradition, with the sole addition of the saw and the plastic bags; others have argued that these innovations represent an essential change of attitude of which the decent Christian burial was a precursor: the deceased is no longer seen as a burden that has been gotten rid of, but rather as a burden that continues to be such even after its death. The presence of a worried conscience behind the bothersome procedure of sawing up the body has particularly been used to support the continuity of tradition with the infamous sermons of PCB, during which the living were usually indirectly accused of having sent the deceased to his grave.
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