“If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain If you cut me with a knife It's still the same And I know her heart is beating And I know that I am dead Yet the pain here that I feel Try and tell me it's not real And it seems I still have a tear to shed” DeathSadnessHeartacheGothicMoviesSongsEmilyTim BurtonCorpse BrideStop Motion Book:Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story Source: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story
“Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called "ghost marriages." Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives always share a grave. Sometimes, when a man died unmarried, his parents would procure the body of a woman, hold a "wedding," and bury the couple together... A black market has sprung up to supply corpse brides. Marriage brokers—usually respectable folk who find brides for village men—account for most of the middlemen. At the bottom of the supply chain come hospital mortuaries, funeral parlors, body snatchers—and now murderers. —"China's Corpse Brides: Wet Goods and Dry Goods" The Economist, July 26, 2007” TraditionChina2007Black MarketFuneral RitesCorpse BrideGhost Marriage Book:The Undertaking of Lily Chen Source: The Undertaking of Lily Chen