In our hearts, the "corpse snatcher" is undoubtedly a mysterious profession. Many people just want to know whether the people who do this profession have encountered anything supernatural, but they don't pay attention to the real situation of this profession. "This is just a job dealing with the dead, unlucky." This is what most people think when they face the "corpse snatcher".
"Starting price" body snatcher?
One thing happened in 2009, which pushed this profession that most people didn't even know existed to the forefront.
On the bank of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou City, Hunan Province, a group of college students who were camping suddenly heard the cry for help from the Yangtze River. A closer look reveals that there are two teenagers. They should have slipped and fell into the Yangtze River while playing on the banks of the Yangtze River. This group of college students are also anxious to save people. Seeing that the two teenagers were still relatively close to the shore, they discussed it a little and decided to use the way of "human chain" to rescue the drowning teenagers hand in hand.
It's just maybe because these college students have no relevant experience, so they don't know that it's not safe to save people in the turbulent river with the method of "human chain". It is very likely that the rescuer will also fall into the water because one of them misses and the drowning person struggles.
Sure enough, although this group of college students successfully rescued the drowning person, three of them stayed in the cold river forever. This group of students later found a salvage company, hoping that they could salvage their friends. Who knows that this salvage company asks for 36,000 yuan, and it needs to pay a deposit in advance, and it won't salvage if it doesn't give money.
The two sides started a confrontation on the edge of the Yangtze River. This scene happened to be photographed by a reporter and photographer passing by and published in the newspaper, causing an uproar. This photo simply stepped on the news explosion point perfectly, life and death, what a good hero and villain impact.
At that time, the industry of "snatching corpses" was called a "dirty" industry, and Wang Shouhai, the captain of the corpse snatching team in the photo, was criticized by countless people. But is this really a fact? Do people just listen to the one-sided words of some media?
With the passage of time, the storm of "kidnapping for ransom" gradually subsided, but the reputation of "corpse snatchers" like Wang Man Shouhai was almost destroyed. After that, some reporters came to see the old man. When the old man faced the reporter, he not only showed grievances.
The old man said that he had been doing good deeds all his life, but he was old and had a bad reputation. He is unwilling and wants the media to clear his name.
Many people think, but the company is right to salvage three brave children. Even if you collect money, you can't sit on the ground and start at 36 thousand. Most of them just stand on the moral high ground at this time, overlooking the industry of "corpse fishermen" from a height, and scold them to pieces.
The truth behind it
But everyone has forgotten that "snatching corpses" is the occupation of this group of people, and it is their occupation to support their families. Since this is the kind of professional you are looking for, how can you not charge? What's more, after a lot of exploitation, the money in the hands of this group of "dead fishermen" only reached 600 yuan.
Moreover, it is extremely dangerous to salvage a body in a fast-flowing river, and you may lose your life if you are not careful. But that was in the incident of that year, everyone only saw the superficial things, and no one went into the hardships behind the "corpse snatcher".
Many people are buried in the river every year. As corpse drivers, they not only have to work on the water all the year round, but also, whenever someone comes to them, no matter what they are doing, they should immediately put them down and go back to work on the boat, even in the middle of the night.
A lingering smell all year round.
Moreover, because bodies are salvaged all the year round, most people are unwilling to deal with them, and they always feel unlucky. All year round, unless there is an accident, no one will come to them specially. Except for their relatives, they see all kinds of dead bodies soaked in the river all year round, and the mental stress they bear is far beyond our imagination.
They soak in the water all the year round to salvage the bodies, which have a rancid smell all the year round, not only from the bodies, but also from other substances rotting in the river. After all, we all know that there is a lot of garbage in the river, and ordinary people will smell when they get into the water, not to mention people who are underwater all the year round.
Moreover, this rancid smell is very difficult to wash off, even when they accidentally get something bad in the river, they need special herbs.
But even after washing, they still need to go into the water again. After all, this is their profession. The rotten smell on the body exists all the year round, so that no one wants to be near them.
Year after year, day after day, they lingered on the edge of life, salvaging one body after another, giving hope to those who came to look for the bodies of their families.
But today, their situation is still not good. Almost everything they do is voluntary. It stands to reason that whatever is in the river will involve a murder case and should be handed over to the public security department for handling.
However, if the public security department carries out a series of routine operations such as collecting certificates from various bureaus, the public security department simply cannot afford this economic pressure. After all, the police ran back and forth for several days and spent more than 7,000 yuan back and forth, but they still didn't find the body.
Therefore, "corpse fishing" can be said to be an indispensable but really marginal industry.
summary
There are fewer and fewer people willing to do this business now. After all, normal people don't want to touch the body. In fact, they really want the money there. After all, there are many businesses that can make money, and all of them are more popular than this, and there is no danger to their lives. If you don't really want those who drift in the river and the dead in the sea to be buried, why should you continue to do your work in the cold eyes of others?
There are unknown hardships behind every industry, especially those that ordinary people don't know much about. We should respect the practitioners in every legal industry.