Another article about the same case makes this smell even more like The Onion: https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/vanhempansa-pakastanut-mies-perustelee-tekojaan-jopa-muinaiset-faaraot/9391918
An elderly doctor says he froze his parents’ bodies at his father’s request. During police questioning, he spoke of pharaohs, catacombs, and Elon Musk.
“My father’s wish for me, as his eldest son, was that his body be mummified and preserved, and not disposed of by society through cremation or burial,” the man said during police questioning.
He says his father advocated for “ecological diversity, a pleasant lifestyle, and freedom of religion and funeral rites.”
“Even the ancient Egyptian pharaohs spent half their lives preparing for death. So did the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who wants to be buried on Mars. I’ve heard this from my father before.”
According to the son, he was supposed to build a burial chamber for his parents. At first, his father had asked him to build the burial chamber in the United States. The family’s third child, the sons’ sister, has lived in the United States for several decades, and according to the son, his parents visited her there every summer.
“My father believed that his body would remain ‘forever’ and allow future archaeologists—if they were so inclined—to study what the human body was like back then. This isn’t some delusion of grandeur, but rather a product of the thinking of that era,” the man explained.
He said he must fulfill his father’s request to the end.
“This must be seen through to the end. I have promised, and I have a sacred duty to build the burial chamber and prepare the eternal coffins,” he said.
Is the world getting massively stupider or am I just noticing how stupid its always been???
Mitch McConnell?
THE CYLINDER MUSK NOT BE HARMED.
I guess that’s a pun, not a typo.
Funny how the translation refers to an 81-year-old man as “the boy.”
I get it. My grandma’s remains have been in my kitchen for more than ten years now. It’s been on my TODO list the whole time, but like, she’s not going anywhere.
Im confused how this man is claiming that his father “wanted a burial like Elon Musk” if his father died in 1996 when nobody knew who Musk was.
So, it could’ve been a simple mix up. People (old people, like Pharaohs but also modern people like Elon) talk about preserving bodies and his father talked about this too. This in this case being preserving bodies, not Elon.
I know language-wise the ‘this’ could have been Elon. Dude is clearly a few donuts short of a dozen, but the article is translated from Finnish. I’m sure it could be lost in translation or something.
Maybe he used AI to get out this situation, and the AI threw in Elon Musk into the mix.
“yeah I was supposed to build a burial chamber for my mom and dad, but I procrastinated. just a little bit.”
I hate it when that happens
Do you have an idea how hard it is to gather all the resources and money for labor to build a pyramid to put the chamber in ? In this economy it must not be cheap.
Ante-chambers? In this economy?
cryonics on a budget
Collecting the retirement…
Ick…
They felt they needed to arrest him, but couldn’t find a law more fitting than “violate the sanctity of a grave”?
Just leave him alone, and deal with it after he dies.
He dug up a grave unrelated to the quoted portion about keeping his parents in a freezer.
I mean, he didn’t harm anyone. So I’d say this is just an odd request/action. I don’t think there is a crime here. But fucking police just have to arrest because they don’t know any different.
That freezer-burn is going to be nasty
Was totally expecting a pension fraud story.
Instead it’s just a weirdo.
Honestly? Based. I’d do the same thing if my dad asked me.
and allow future archaeologists—if they were so inclined—to study what the human body was like back then.
Archeologist studying bones in a long-unpowered freezer:
“Serial killer. Definitely a serial killer.”
And millinia later someone recovers some chronoradiography data proving it was a ritual suicide to achieve divine preservation through bulk paper roll storage in the tomb.
So did the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who wants to be buried on Mars. I’ve heard this from my father before.
First of all, he knew about Musk 30 years ago?
But also, the lengths Musk will go to to keep us from pissing on his grave.
