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Illinois Lawmakers Push To Outlaw Sex With Corpses

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Mar 29, 2012 10:20PM

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It's the law you didn't know you needed. The Illinois House voted unanimously to outlaw sex with corpses and to make it illegal to move a corpse. If the bill passes, sex with a corpse would be a Class 2 felony with a maximum sentence of seven years in jail. Moving a corpse would be a Class 4 felony with a maximum punishment of three years in jail.

State Rep. Daniel Beiser (D-Alton) is sponsoring the legislation and says, "It's all out of respect for the deceased." Apparently there is no law explicitly banning having sex with a corpse and currently prosecutors charge offenders with "criminal damage to property."

“When you think of that, you think of someone going … breaking a mailbox or something similar,” Beiser told Illinois Statehouse News. “We obviously understand that isn’t adequate, that anybody who abuses or mishandles a deceased just demeans the meaning of that person’s life."

Expect the all powerful corpse-fucking lobby to fight this hard.