Bad news for surviving friends and loved ones in China – no more strippers at the funerals. Apparently police are trying to stop the practice of relatives employing "performers" to draw people in.
"Striptease used to be a common practice at funerals in Donghai's rural areas to allure viewers," says a release by the Xinhua news agency. "Local villagers believe that the more people who attend the funeral, the more the dead person is honored."
It appears five women were "detained" following a recent funeral for a local farmer in Donghai County, Jangsu province. As part of the new procedure, "village officials must submit plans for funerals within 12 hours after a villager dies," and, perhaps not quite like Orwell's 1984, "residents can report ‘funeral misdeeds’ on a hotline."
