Woman weds Corpse...


	Woman weds Corpse...

pumpkinismine

3-13-2007 10:18 AM

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india, wedding, weird, death

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3-20-2007 4:38 PM

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I'm guessing they skipped the "till death do you part" bit.

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AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - An Indian woman, despairing
over her lover's accidental death when he fell down a well soon
after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his
corpse just minutes before the cremation.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/od_nm/india_marriage_corpse_dc"><P>"It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a
bride and then as a widow," K.M. Kapadia, a police officer in
the town of Anand in western Gujarat state, said on Saturday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/od_nm/india_marriage_corpse_dc"><P>Wedding attendees sat the corpse up by a fire, the
traditional center of Hindu wedding ceremonies, and chanted
some marriage prayers before cremating the body, police said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/od_nm/india_marriage_corpse_dc"><P>"The girl refused to give away the body of her lover for
the cremation till she tied the knot with him," Kapadia said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/od_nm/india_marriage_corpse_dc"><P>The bride's parents opposed the marriage but later attended
the wedding ceremony and gave their 22-year-old daughter Tulsi
Devipujak clothes and utensils as gifts, according to the Hindu
tradition.
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