[HN Gopher] Want a Viking Funeral? Only State That Allows It Is ...
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       Want a Viking Funeral? Only State That Allows It Is Colorado
        
       Author : billfor
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2023-01-12 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | krustyburger wrote:
       | _ahem_
       | 
       | "In the former film, the deceased Sith lord, still in his full
       | black armor, is set ablaze atop a funeral pyre on land."
       | 
       | Anakin appears as a force ghost at the end of the film alongside
       | fellow Jedi Obi-Wan and Yoda. In the case of the others, we saw
       | in the films that their bodies vanished as they died. There is
       | every reason to think that Anakin's body similarly vanished off-
       | screen and the funeral pyre was just to burn the Darth Vader
       | armor.
        
         | dr_orpheus wrote:
         | Also note though that Obi-wan and Yoda are already standing
         | there and force ghost Anakin fades in next to them after the
         | funeral pyre has already started. So was Anakin still slightly
         | alive and body intact when Luke started the funeral pyre and it
         | was only at that point that he actually died?
        
       | Cyberdog wrote:
       | Literally 1984, bros.
        
       | d110af5ccf wrote:
       | Why is the government involved in this, again?
        
       | mjfl wrote:
       | kind of makes sense that people don't want random corpses
       | floating around.
        
       | dylan604 wrote:
       | Winter is coming. When all of the dead become part of the army of
       | the white walkers, people will start accepting funeral pyres
       | again. You wait and see!
       | 
       | Also, this reads like an ad
        
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       | neaden wrote:
       | "Norse historians claim that in at least one instance, a deceased
       | chieftain's concubines were slain so that they, too, could
       | accompany him." I think This is a treference to Ibn Fadlan's
       | account and it's important to note 1. They were slaves, not
       | concubines. I know the latter can be a subset of a former but
       | it's important to be clear about it and 2. It was after she was
       | ritualistically drugged and raped by his friends. Here is a link
       | to his account:
       | https://www.mrtredinnick.com/uploads/7/2/1/5/7215292/ibn_fad...
        
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