List of ways people dishonor the dead explained

• Body snatching is the secret removal of corpses from burial sites. A common purpose of body snatching, especially in the 19th century, was to sell the corpses for dissection or anatomy lectures in medical schools.
• Damnatio memoriae Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts.^[1]
• Decanonization exclusion of a person's name from the list, catalog; the opposite of canonization.
• Desecration of graves involves intentional acts of vandalism or destruction in places where humans are interred and includes grave sites and Grave markers.
• Gibbeting is any instrument of public execution (including guillotine, executioner's block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold), but gibbeting refers to the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals.^[2]
• Grave robbery is the act of uncovering a grave, tomb or crypt to steal commodities.
• Headhunting is the practice of hunting a human and collecting the severed head after killing the victim, although sometimes more portable body parts (such as ear, nose or scalp) are taken instead as trophies.
• Human trophy collecting involves the acquisition of human body parts as trophy, usually as a war trophy, or as a status symbol of superior masculinity. Psychopathic serial murderers' collection of their victims' body parts have also been described as a form of trophy-taking; the FBI draws a distinction between souvenirs and trophies in this regard.^[3]
• Maschalismos is the practice of physically rendering the dead incapable of rising or haunting the living in undead form.
• Necrophilia is sexual attraction towards or a sexual act involving corpses.^[4]
• Urinate on someone's grave. As a form of disrespect a person urinates on the decedent's grave.^[5]
• Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment.

See also

• List of ways people honor the dead
• Death and culture
• Taboo

Notes and References

1. Book: Adrastos . Omissi . Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy . 28 June 2018 . OUP Oxford . 978-0-19-255827-5 . 36 . 6 December 2021 . 7 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211107180815/https://books.google.com/books?id=CWliDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 . live .
2. Book: Pettifer, Ernest. Punishments of Former Days. Waterside Press. Winchester. 1992. 978-1-8-72870-05-2. 83.
3. Book: Harold Schechter. David Everitt. The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. 27 January 2011. 4 July 2006. Simon and Schuster. 978-1-4165-2174-7. 290. 7 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140107221221/http://books.google.com/books?id=4HvZYXHdnBQC&pg=PA290. live.
4. Book: Robin. Goodwin. Duncan. Cranmer. Inappropriate Relationships: The Unconventional, the Disapproved, and the Forbidden. 174–176. Psychology Press. London, England. 2002. 978-0805837421.
5. News: Gantt . Darin . Modell family wants to press charges against grave urinator . 6 December 2021 . Pro football Talk . 24 July 2014 . 6 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211206165610/https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/24/modell-family-wants-to-press-charges-against-grave-urinator/ . live .