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[bloodyroses]

Okay, I'm not gonna be going around making any zombies or anything since apparently that's ILLEGAL and I'll respect it, but I really fucking hate that everyone I asked about that just looked at me like I ate someone's baby or something like that.

Real talk.

I can understand why it's ethically sketchy and disrespectful if someone didn't SAY they wanted to be a zombie, but this isn't the first time I've found other people treat necromancy like the worst thing you could do, magic-wise.

Someone please help me understand what the big fucking deal is because I think I'm gonna scream.

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[bloodyroses]

If you're digging up the grave of someone who never wanted this, yeah, obviously.

One of the benefactors for my old school had his skeleton walk around a tiny cage on the grounds as an art installment. Weird, but it was what he wanted and the school was cool with it, so I'm not gonna judge.

Normally though, you just get people signing up to guard a tomb of a loved one or a temple or some other place that was important to them in life.

Or they donate their body to research or the government or something.

I think it's just as much desecration to put someone in a grave if they made it clear they don't want to be there.

[gentledawn]

I suppose I can see your point.

But it must be done carefully. If the spirit is appeased with the body being out in the open, so be it. I just know that would not be the case in my homeland.

[The wishes of the deceased do matter. They are the most important.]

Every world must have different values.

[bloodyroses]

Yeah in Vanth we've got like, cultural precedent for this shit. I know it's weird, but no one goes around necro'ing people who didn't ask for it unless you're a world class dipshit.

[gentledawn]

Are you quite certain no one does? There will always be those who have no regard for laws.

[bloodyroses]

Do you think someone who has no regard for the law would be like

"oh, I can't do necromancy because that's ILLEGAL"

no! Because they have no regard for the law!

[gentledawn]

The laws are not what concern me. It is the morality - or lack thereof - that leaves me disturbed.

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[bloodyroses]

It still applies, really.

Someone who's completely morally bankrupt isn't going to really care about what's right or what's wrong.

Okay, maybe I can try to explain things.

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[bloodyroses]

Most Vanthians have a pretty clear distinction between someone's body and their soul. We just kinda accept that we're here temporarily, and the body is just a meat vehicle for the part that actually matters.

So. When we die, our corpses aren't part of us anymore. They're things. But because it's a thing that belonged to you specifically, you get to decide what happens to it when you die, just like your other stuff.

Of course, you still want to treat it with some level of respect. You don't totally trash the house your parents left you before they died, right? But at the same time, you still like, live in it. Or use it for something else.

A lot of people would rather see their corpse going toward something they care about rather than just doing nothing with it. Like I said, a lot of guarding family homes, or donating to research?

I hope I'm getting somewhere with this.

[gentledawn]

I believe I understand the difference between our cultures better. Thank you for explaining. [His gut instinct is to lay corpses to rest, but if that isn't culturally or morally acceptable, he is in the wrong.]

I would support it if the body is truly carrying out the wishes of the soul that once inhabited it.

[bloodyroses]

Like I said, I know that this is super not the norm everywhere else in the world. I guess I wasn't used to like, the violent reaction people take when they find a place where it is.