Re: [HOE] Re: was Doomsayers - now Harrowed

[richard a ranallo <toadpooka@juno.com>]

On Sat, 06 Jan 2001 11:36:23 -0700 Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>
writes:
>  They didn't have to explain - they were effective in covering it up. 
>  At  least until the Plunkett tape and the DPLF kidnapping brought 
> everything to  the front page.  At which point the harrowed thing was
spin-doctored 
> as  part of the process for becoming a cyborg - "irreversable chemical 
> changes"  and all that.

Modern embalming practices would be another thing that helps keep the
harrowed under wraps (or 6 feet of dirt, at least).  A properly embalmed
body by today's standards couldn't come back harrowed.  So not many
peoples' dead relatives dig their way up out of the cemetary.
People who come back would either have to do so between the time that
they died and when their body would be embalmed, which only gives them a
few days under normal circumstances, while it normally takes a harrowed
body a week or more to rise again. Either that, or the body would have to
not be embalmed at all.  A murder victim who is buried in a shallow,
unmarked grave near the railroad tracks could come back a week later.
This would have a lot of effects on the "harrowed demographics," as it
were.  There would be far fewer harrowed in the US or CSA than in many
Third World countries.  Certain religious beliefs that don't allow
screwing with the bodies of the deceased would give rise to more harrowed
from that heritage.  And more harrowed would come from "suspect" causes
of death: a hitchhiker goes missing for a month, and comes back claiming
to have been killed and risen from the dead.  Obviously, this is a result
of post-traumatic stress syndrome stemming from the abuses laid upon him
by his kidnapper.  If he protests and runs to someone to mention his lack
of a heartbeat, the agency has just found another volunteer for the
cyborg program.

From Whom It May Concern,
Rich A. Ranallo

"A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing
his ways.  He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't
afford to admit--no matter how often he's reminded of it--that every day
of his life takes him farther down a blind alley."
-Hunter S. Thompson, "Hell's Angels"

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