Burn Marcos’ corpse, not praise him

To bury or not to bury? That is a political question.

To paraphrase a well-known line from Shakespeare’s “Caesar,” I come to burn Marcos not to praise him.

Modern funeral services include cremation of body. Let us burn Marcos’ corpse. Let half of his ashes be buried at what should be thereafter renamed “Libingan ng mga Bayani at Kurap,” the rest in Ilocos.

We cannot cut his body into two in order to bury one half in Ilocos, and the other at the “Libingan ng mga Bayani at Iba Pa” (to borrow former senator Nene Pimentel’s suggested new name for the heroes’ cemetery where his family is itching to bury his corpse).

In the past, now and until the next generations without end, Marcos will always be a curse to our nation.

Let us burn his corpse together with his atrocities to our people.

—ISIDRO C. VALENCIA, [email protected]