The amputated leg of an Iranian war veteran is being held at a morgue for a third week because its owner cannot afford to have it buried. Noorkhoda Biranvand, 40, was shot in the left leg during the 1980-88 war with Iraq but tissue began to die only recently, Kayhan newspaper reports. After doctors in Khorammabad decided to amputate, Mr Biranvand took religious advice and decided to have it buried. But it was impounded by the cemetery when he failed to pay the bill of $83. "Because he did not have the money, the leg has been in the morgue for 20 days," the paper says. The veteran appealed to an Iranian war charity, the Martyrs' Foundation, but they rejected his request.
What a bunch of cheapjacks. What a bunch of two-faced hypocrites! They'd have paid for the entire burial of poor Biranvand's carcass if he'd had the grace to keel over and collect his 72 virgins. Instead, they're probably making fun of him and calling him "Stumpy," while the leg rots.
My grandaddy lost one of his legs late in life, to diabetes, and had it buried in his cemetary plot. He used to tell people he had one foot in the grave and then cackle. Grandaddy was a very strange man... |
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