https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/eecxiw/wake_up_olive_has_destroyed_my_friends_grip_on/ https://churchleaders.com/news/367958-bethel-church-stops-praying-for-god-to-wakeupolive.html When I was growing up a christo-fascist republican youth in the 90's and early 2000s it would have been ludicrous, even to me, even to my evolution denying, young earth believing brethren, that after a person dies their body would be treated with anything less than the most care, gentleness and dignity possible given circumstance. If one of our congregants had a family member pass away, and another family member received a 'prophetic word' or some other such nonsense that their loved one would be raised bodily from the dead, the rest of the church wouldn't pile on and give that persons grief induced psychosis fuel and $60,000 of gofundme money. EVEN. THEN. We knew that grief causes people to think and feel and act in bizarre, uncomfortable, and unpredictable ways. The delusion that a loved one is 'merely resting' and will wake up any time is one of the more common ones from the little digging I bothered to do on the subject. The case I linked above is referred to as 'Wake Up Olive.' In short, several years ago a child unexpectedly died whose parents were high in the food chain at a major, internationally infamous evangelical church. They kept this poor girls body unrefrigerated in a church sanctuary for days praying for her resurrection. The process in total was weeks long, painful for family and community. This event has happened again here in Metro Detroit. Someone in the constellation of my in laws church and affiliates passed away, and they kept the body unrefrigerated in a sanctuary for DAYS as they prayed over it trying to bring it back from the dead. They did a good job keeping things quiet on the whole, the announcement that this was to occur was made only over live, non recorded facebook streams of church services. I have checked to see if any headlines have popped up in the Detroit Free Press about bodies in sanctuaries but however it resolved, it did so quietly, or such news is not yet public. Take this as my usual anti-religious screed if you wish.