Who is more helpless than the dead? Sounds a bit silly I guess, but when you think about it, who is more vile than someone who would desecrate a grave or a corpse? Such things happen. Perhaps that is why friends and family take such elaborate pains with funerals. In antiquity consider the remnant of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae who chose to die rather than give up the corpse of slain leader Leonidas. Consider the horror with which Priam and all of Troy watch as Achilles dragged dead Hector around and around the city walls.
Now consider Mary Magdalene's sobbing at the tomb on Easter morning when she saw the body of Jesus gone and asked the stranger (angel) who had taken it.
Happily there was no graverobber or fiend at work in this instance!
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