Our political leaders bodies should be put on display when they die!

[freightshaker]

Most of them I don't even want to see while they are alive. Much less dead.

[mackinac81]

Originally Posted by Workaholic?

In today's news is a picture of the dead body of the the GREAT LEADER of North Korea. He sits out there for everyone to see. Displaying the dead body of political leaders is quite common in other countries. I remember even the Pope's body was displayed for everyone to see. Public figures of all types dead bodies are shown to the public in countries all over the world. It gives people closure.

Why isn't this done in America? For example, when President Ford and Nixon died people were allowed to walk by a casket but it was unlikely the body was even in there. Public figures like closed caskets at their funerals.

Why is America afraid to show the bodies of their deceased public figures and it is so common in Europe and Asia?

PhotoBlog - Kim Jong Il's body is put on display

I don't know about anyone else, but a dead body is a little too macabre for me. I'd rather have the image in my mind of a president when he lived, not of his dead body there.

Originally Posted by wrecking ball

most likely it's a safety precaution guarding against the potential threat of a president raising from the grave and eating the brains of the general public. it happens.

[Willsson]

Our political leaders bodies should be put on display when they die!

I'd go for rope hanging their putrid bodies by their feet from the top of the Washington Monument. At least until the remaining leaders understand (practice, practice, practice) smaller government and balanced budgets. And living by the same laws as regular citizens.