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[The One Who]

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Originally Posted by oxymoron

I am seriously wondering how and why they found this out.

I think it's to do with body heat. It's like when you think someone is "hot" (as in attractive), they actually can be if they like you too.

[Rozzacki]

Did you know, France is the only country in where you are allowed to marry a corpse?! :')

[Feel_Good_inc.]

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Originally Posted by Rozzacki

Did you know, France is the only country in where you are allowed to marry a corpse?! :')

What surprises me the most is that doesn't surprise me.

[Fry]

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Originally Posted by Rozzacki

Did you know, France is the only country in where you are allowed to marry a corpse?! :')

Doesn't say much for their living population. Lol.

[Rozzacki]

Why would they even want to marry a dead person Lol!

[The One Who]

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Originally Posted by Rozzacki

Why would they even want to marry a dead person Lol!

Emotional reasons? So that any children are viewed as 'legitimate'? There are specific conditions that must have been fulfilled prior to death for your application for posthumous marriage to be considered and approved. And France isn't the only country where it can happen, I'm sure it's happened in the States before.

[Rozzacki]

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Originally Posted by The One Who

Emotional reasons? So that any children are viewed as 'legitimate'? There are specific conditions that must have been fulfilled prior to death for your application for posthumous marriage to be considered and approved. And France isn't the only country where it can happen, I'm sure it's happened in the States before.

Really ? the states, Ah only said france when i read it :') but there you go, i understand if you cant let go, but i mean.. its a bit far fetched

[The One Who]

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Originally Posted by Rozzacki

Really ? the states, Ah only said france when i read it :') but there you go, i understand if you cant let go, but i mean.. its a bit far fetched

Well, if you've been engaged, are due to be married and then your fiance(e) dies, you might want to ask to carry on with it for your own peace of mind. Everyone deals with grief differently, and it's not like you can just marry any dead person.

I don't find it anymore strange than France having state-regulated sale times for shops. Or the fact that it seems like the entire country shuts down between the hours of 12 and 2pm for lunch, and hardly anything is open on a Sunday or Monday. Or that a Burtons over there was selling clothes at designer prices. Or that it seems that there is a continued myth that you can't drink the tap water in France.

[Feel_Good_inc.]

Apparently the reason you can marry a dead person in France is thus:

During World War I, a few women were married by use of proxy to soldiers that had died weeks earlier. This practice came to be called posthumous marriage. Posthumous marriage for civilians originated in the 1950s, when a dam broke and killed 400 people in Fréjus, France, including a man named André Capra, who was engaged to Iréne Jodart. Jodart pleaded with French President Charles De Gaulle to let her go along with her marriage plans even though her fiancé had died. She had support from the media and within months was allowed to marry her fiancé. It is likely that posthumous marriage was made as an extension to France’s Proxy Marriage.

According to wikipedia.

That surprised me. I would have thought it would have gone back to come old king or something several hundred years ago. Like he died before marrying his fiance, who was pregnant with his son. She was allowed to marry his body so her child could come to the throne and france would continue having royalty. Until the revolution.
That's the usual reason mad laws like this get passed. Always something to do with a royal family.

[Dicky T]

Here's one for you: Apple pips contain arsonic.

Dicky

[Rozzacki]

Wow :') thats where it came from, & i suppose thats a good way to look at it, i mean being engaged then the person you love dying, & then carrying on the wedding.