Dead Couple to Be Married (yahoo)

[Endangered Specie]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=3&u=/nm/odd_safrica_wedding_dc

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African man who shot his pregnant fiance dead before killing himself will be posthumously married to her at the weekend.

Police Captain Mohale Ramatseba said David Masenta shot 25-year-old Mgwanini Molomo after a quarrel before turning the gun on himself. But Johannesburg's Sowetan newspaper said family and friends wanted to remember them as a happy couple destined for a happy life together.

The groom's corpse would be dressed in a cream suit and his bride's in a gown for the ceremony, at which a priest in the rural village of Ceres in Limpopo will bless the union before the two are buried, the Sowetan said.

"In African culture, there is no death -- there is merely the separation of body and soul," said cultural expert Mathole Motshekga. "It is also important because the families are married together."

"This does not mean the relationship has irretrievably broken down."

[Deja Q]

1. Big deal. If they found out I'm gay, they'd just shoot me and my partner.

Good thing I have no partner. :D

[Nikia]

2. The shooting did not mean that the relationship was over?

Marrying dead people is bizarre in itself, but the guy shot her. Killing someone is a pretty clear sign that the relationship is over. The fact that he killed himself too doesn't mean that he didn't murder his fiancee. Even if their souls are around each other in an after life, I don't see how they would be a happy couple. If they had both survived the shooting, I doubt that she would still want to marry him. I wouldn't.

[Piperay]

3. Yeah, he murdered her

I could see still marrying them if they had both been killed in an accident on the way to be married or something but geeesh! x(