An Open Letter on Burying Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Couldn't agree more.

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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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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).

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.

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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

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Updated On: 5/8/13 at 11:45 AM

^^THIS!!!