Is it bad to circumcise a dead baby?

if the parents were from some african country and requested that a spiritual leader be allowed to mutilate their baby's corpse would it be looked at the same way?

i wouldn't have a problem with this. it'd just be gross. everything at all relevant to why any of this stuff is even problematic, let alone obviously horrible, has to do with the future life.

that said, if it were in a big long elegiac article in the new york times, i'd probably be kind of ooked out, yeah

(also i guess you probably meant this but judgement aside "requested that a spiritual leader be allowed to mutilate their baby's corpse" is the literal act taken by the parents in this article

i do find something beautiful and sad about it, like contenderizer said, just in the sense that this ritual that has accrued the character of a celebration of new life is being performed mournfully as the precise opposite)

bris is an important part of the jewish covenant and parents wanting to have their deceased child fulfill that covenant is understandable imo

yeah like i think this is actually way more defensible than circumcising a live baby.

so do I tbh but I wasn't going to go there

I still want to know exactly what Grady meant by "requested that a spiritual leader be allowed to mutilate their baby's corpse" because I agree with DLH and don't see how that's any different than what's happening here.

(i mean i'm not trying to start The Circumcision Fight, i am pretty much apathetic and i don't mean that circumcising a live baby is indefensible, just that if one of these things were bad, it would be that one)

Yeah no same. I wasn't going to go there because I didn't want to start that fight in this thread. I just really don't see how the baby being dead makes this any stranger than if it were alive.

postmortem baptisms are not a ticket out of purgatory, are they?

i think they are, tbh?

"if the parents were from some african country and requested that a spiritual leader be allowed to mutilate their baby's corpse would it be looked at the same way?"

Assuming that some creepy witchdoktor decided to write an essay for the Times about it then, yes, I believe it would be.

ok, cool

last rites etc, not sure if the priest stops giving them if the subject expires halfway through? xp

i don't think purgatory's a real place post-JP2.

more like just a... thing. that you do. i dunno how long it takes.

i mean i realize that we're talking about judaism here so ignore me.

human beings are all so weird!!

circumcised dicks are so weird!!

circumcised dicks are so weird!!

somehow thought it would be a good and potentially board-laffs-fruitful idea here to google image search "circumcised ducks"

no joke first time i used(?) one i was like "i really have no idea what i'm doing with this"

circumcision has nothing to do with the afterlife and circumcising a dead baby (or even a live baby younger than 8 days old) has no purpose acc to Jewish law. i'm sure it meant a lot to the parents tho.

If it would be morally acceptable to cut up a dead child to donate organs then this ceremony, whatever one might think of it personally, if desired by the grieving parents and affording them some solace is surely no worse.

otm

has ILX done The Circumcision Fight before

yes i believe we argued over whether to leave a tip or not

what if the parents also want to have the metzitzah b'peh performed on the corpse baby

does that count as necrophilia?

Don't get me started.