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This is the most seriously fucked-up story I've ever read.

eta: Good Metafilter discussion about the story, and another interesting perspective.

re-eta: Oh, this is getting too good:

>>Who the hell devotes a year and a half of their existance to somebody that they've never met?<<

Around here, we call them "Christians."

Cheap shot, but it's true. People devote themselves to the dead, to the nontangible, to the imaginary on a constant basis. Aristists and historical scholars who study Hitler, programmers and patriots, grieving widows and physicists looking for a greater degree of accuracy in the charge of the electron, religious functionaries and shopping mall Santas. The human capacity to become highly involved with the abstract is the source of much of civilization's gains, madness both private and public, and character of life for homo sapiens... -adipocere on Metafilter

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