Chavez isn't going to be embalmed...

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At least now he won't be put on display like Lenin or Mao.

(CNN) —Venezeula has decided not to embalm the body of its late president, Hugo Chavez, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said on Friday in a Twitter message.

The initial plan was to have Chavez's embalmed body displayed much like the remains of former revolutionary leaders Vladimir Lenin of Russia and China's Mao Zedong. But the embalming was ruled out, Villegas said, after a report from a Russian medical panel.

"The Russian medical commission established that in order to do the procedure, the body would have to be transported to Russia and remain there for seven to eight months," he said.

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[FrodosPet]

1. That's a creepy, cultish thing to do anyhow

Let the dead rest in dignity, not be turned into a tourist attraction.

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3. That's what I say too.

When Chavez had Bolivar dug up, it was a political stunt, that had no other reason for it.

And displaying Chavez's body like a stuffed exhibit, would just be another political stunt.

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2. Besides, I don't think the people of Venezuela would appreciate THIS happening