An Open Letter on Burying Tamerlan Tsarnaev

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 7:17am

Published in Esquire. Written by Charles P. Pierce.

I agree with the point he is trying to make.

Stop making jackasses of yourself in front of the entire nation.

Stop harassing an elderly undertaker who's just trying to do a very hard job. Stop hassling admittedly camera-ready Uncle Ruslan every time he shows up. Stop giving ridiculous soundbites to the Boston television stations, and to the network drones who come parachuting in. Stop yelling on the sidewalk. Get yourselves together, get yourselves over to the Banner, order a cold beer from my pal Tom Cummins, and just chill the fk out. You're embarrassing yourselves.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is dead. He is not going to be any more dead if you wave some more signs. He is not going to be any more dead the louder you yell. Your made-for-TV outrage is not going to make him any more dead. Please, I'm begging you. Stop auditioning for yet another national television passion play. Stop demonstrating your willingness to be part of an ongoing freak show. No matter how much fealty you pledge on camera to The Victims or Their Families, he's not going to be any deader. Let his family bury him. Let them bury him wherever they want.



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[tazber]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 7:26am

Couldn't agree more.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 8:12am

Me either.

Countdown till BWW's village idiot shows up full of manufactured (and misspelled) outrage . . .

[tazber]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 8:36am

Regardless of what one does in life we (humans, not Americans) bury our dead.

Yes, I know not everyone is buried. Some are cremated and in cases where there are no remains (plane crash, explosion, etc.) there is still a symbolic service and burial.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 8:43am

unless you're Walt Disney.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 8:52am

That's different, he's not really dead.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 9:35am

"... Begging us to release the worst angels of our nature in time for the May sweeps ..."

When I heard there were signs outside the funeral home declaring that if he was buried on US soil, the sign carriers would dig him up, I wondered who the "animals" were now? It's a shame the village idiots don't even notice the slippery slope they live on.

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 09:35 AM

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 9:38am

Yeah, it is not as though ...
Not Dead Yet

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 9:42am

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 10:30am

Personally, I would prefer he not be buried on US for the following reasons.

1) If it somehow gets out where he is (and it probably will) it creates a “shrine” for any radicals who agree with what he did.

2) It also creates something tangible for people to lash out against. I imagine the grave would be desecrated on a daily basis.

3) By all reports he wasn’t happy here. One could argue that he doesn’t deserve to be buried where he wants but I think burying him in his homeland would be best for everyone.

This is just my take on the whole mess. I do not agree with all of the “radicals” who are outside the funeral home and harassing the poor man who’s just trying to do his job or those saying they’ll dig him up. And I realize there’s all sorts of red tape in regards to sending his body back home. And, last I read Russian officials were not responding to calls regarding the body being sent home. They may not want him either.

If he ends up being buried here then so be it and I won’t make any fuss. But that’s just how I feel about the whole thing.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 10:48am

Obviously he's dead and won't get any deader. I'm not sure everyone feels that way, though, but I do. When you're dead you're dead.

I still wouldn't want him buried next to me or mine.

[dreaming]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 10:53am

As someone who just lost a relative, let's have a little respect. He had a family that is hurting. He will never see his daughter grow up, never hold her again. Whatever monstrous things he might have done, he was someone's husband, someone's father, someone's son, someone's nephew, someone's brother, etc.

We need to let the family grieve. They are hurting-and not all of them are bad people (I'd wager most of them are good). They at least deserve privacy to mourn.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 10:59am

Burial practices aren't for the dead, they're for the living. And this faux outrage that's on display in abundance around the country and even on this message board on a daily basis, just so people can feel important by being "outraged" is ridiculous and only serves to make them look like bigger fools than they already are. Let the family get on with their grieving and you protestors can get on with what little lives you actually have.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:02am

I'm okay with having him buried in the US, for the daughter and widow's sake. My dad is going through heart problems, and I unfortunately often think about what it would be like when he's gone. I'd be devastated if I couldn't visit his grave.

The family (excluding the mother, apparently) is already grappling with what he did, and it will stay with his daughter forever.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:03am

I'm not sure, Jordan, did you imply I have little life? there's faux outrage on both sides, btw.

Anyway, he definitely should be buried and I'm sure he will be.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:09am

OMG, Jane!! Nooooo, I wasn't referring to anyone who had even posted in this thread. Just the general "faux outrage" over every little thing said on the board by certain people. But I was in no way referring to you (or ever would say anything like that about you).

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:12am

oy, sorry Jordan. I think I'm a little paranoid at times.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:25am

I know I can't speak for her but I suspect that the wife will not be visiting his grave. She didn't even want to claim the body - she signed that right over to his family. So that's why I don't even consider her when the topic comes up. Her reported behavior makes me think she wants nothing to do with it.

The father is reportly dying and will be unable to attend any services in the US. That's another reason why I think it would be best to have the body shipped back to his homeland. To give the father the closure of the funeral and the opportunity to be buried next to his son.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:26am

If his wife and daughter are here, then it seems the decision should be up to them (and it sounds like they don't want his body buried here anyway). Of course there will be anger and outrage as it is naturally an emotional situation. Be the reality is, we bury our own terrorists here. I personally don't see this as being any different, but families and religion can get pretty rigid with regards to the handling of the deceased.

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[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:32am

Be the reality is, we bury our own terrorists here

They get cremated which is against Muslim law. That's why there's an issue here.

Under Islamic law, the body cannot be cremated, a procedure used for criminals including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. "The whole situation is unprecedented," said David Walkinshaw, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association.
Boston bombing suspect's family struggles to find burial site

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:44am

The middle of the ocean was good enough for Osama Bin Laden, it should be good enough for this terrorist.

[suestorm]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:45am

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[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:48am

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:51am

^^THIS!!!

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 12:21pm

Exactly, Diva...Boston is a coastal city. Hire a boat...go out into international waters and be done with it. No shrine, no graveyard, no gathering place for hero worship, no place to deface. It's a win...win.