You'd think being incorrupt is a good thing considering that in Roman Catholicism, this is a sign that an individual is a saint. Being incorrupt by the way, means that the human body will not go through the normal process of decomposition. I suppose the idea is very different for the Chinese. Many years back, I heard of a rich young man who died in a helicopter crash. A number of his siblings died prematurely of various causes and there were rumours then that a senior member of the family was buried in an unfavourable spot and the body had not decomposed. For the Chinese, when an elder in the family dies and the body does not decompose, that would spell trouble for the descendants. So, you see in this sense, there is a difference between Westerners and Orientals. In Roman Catholicism, not every saint is also expected to have an incorruptible corpse and I'd suppose now that not everyone with an incorruptible corpse is a saint.
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