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No resurrection, man buried

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 26 August 2004
August 27, 2004 A South African man has been buried after his widow preserved his body for eight weeks because a prophet had predicted he would come back to life. The owner of a funeral parlour kept Paul Meintjes's body "on ice" for weeks before returning it to the family home. After a protest by town residents who said the family should accept the death and move on, undertaker Nico Foulds had enough of storing the body and handed it back to the Meintjes family. His widow then kept the body in a coffin by her bed for three days, awaiting his return to life. A court ordered the burial at a cemetery in Hertzogville, about 130 kilometres north-west of the central city of Bloemfontein, after officials declared a health risk. Police officers, municipal workers and journalists were present at a brief ceremony. The prediction from a local prophet, David Francis, that the dead man would rise again had divided the family and his widow. Two of her three children refused to allow his body to be buried. In scenes reminiscent of the stories of author Herman Charles Bosman, who wrote about small town South Africa early in the last century, the family was so convinced of Meintjes' resurrection that they had baked cakes and his widow started to knit a jersey. "They still think he [Meintjes] will rise from the dead. I feel sorry for them," Foulds said. News of Meintjes' expected rise from the dead attracted crackpots from all over South Africa, including a second "prophet" who walked into a local trading store, loadly proclaiming that the dead man would rise at sunset, when the end of the world was at hand. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/26/1093518005754.html?oneclick=true

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries