This picture went viral and the gravedigger got suspended
So this happened in Spain:
A gravedigger has been suspended for posting a photo with a rotting corpse that he’d just exhumed.
Celestino Reyna, 55, was pictured smiling with the dead man after digging up the body to rebury it in the same grave as the deceased’s wife.
The dead man’s nephew also appears in the photo.
Reyna was digging up the grave at the cemetery in Guardamar del Segura, near Alicante on the Costa Blanca, while the dead man’s niece and her husband overlooked his work.
When the corpse was retrieved, the family were interested to discover the body had been mummified and decided to take a picture.
But when the niece of the dead man, who died 23 years ago, shared the snap with work colleagues on Whatsapp, the picture went viral.
The man’s niece said she didn’t mean to upset anyone and said she just wanted to show the dead man’s sister how his body had been mummified.
She said: “We never thought this could have such serious consequences, and I did not want to show any lack of respect for my uncle.”
By Laura Connor of The Mirror
Apparently the deceased is now resting peacefully beside his late wife.
People are in such denial about death that it borders on obsession. So when a photo likes this get’s posted on social media, you’re asking for it to go viral.
