Not "biomaterial". Not anonymity. 48 children The dead were buried because, as we recall, the dignity of the human individual lasts from conception to natural death.
48 dead children from 26 March to 30 October were buried at the Municipal Cemetery in Zakopane. The ceremony was of a church nature and was organized by the Municipal Social Assistance Centre. This event became a clear sign of opposition to long-term silence and dehumanisation of prenatal losses.
"They rise awareness of the individual dignity of the unborn child"
The importance of specified ceremonies is clearly emphasized by Dr. Piotr Guzdek from the Polish Association of Defenders of Human Life.
"Such burials are of major social importance. They rise awareness of the individual dignity of the unborn kid and the norm of pietism towards his corpses and remains."
It is this aspect – Pietism towards the child's body – that is simply a concrete test of our attitude towards prenatal life. As the expert points out: the affirmation of human dignity in the prenatal period "implicates to show respect for the kid who is aborted and dead besides after his death".
Parents must be recognized – besides in mourning
Dr. Guzdek clearly points out that collective funerals are not just a symbolic gesture, but a real consequence to household drama after loss.
"They point to the request to recognise parental identity and empathetic companionship of spouses in perinatal mourning, as well as adequate support for older siblings".
For decades, mourning for a kid lost before birth was displaced, underestimated, or even denied. In the meantime, as the investigator emphasized, specified celebrations: "they service as intellectual and social support".
"Form of crisis intervention" – words to be heard
The expert leaves no illusions as to the nature of these burials:
"They should be treated as a form of crisis intervention and a call for an open culture that allows families to honorably say goodbye to their kid and to safely experience childbirth mourning".
It is besides an appeal to families, communities and parishes not to close to the suffering of parents, but to make a space in which prenatal failure can be named, mourned and entrusted to God.
The only way to say goodbye
For many families, a collective burial is the only available form of burial.
" Collective burials are frequently the only possible form of goodbyeable kid for families that are incapable to organise an individual ceremony for various reasons".
As Dr. Guzdek adds – this solution guarantees that:
"any kid lost before birth, regardless of the phase of pregnancy, may be given a decent burial".
This is peculiarly crucial in the context of a communicative in which children who have been aborted for years were deprived not only of their name but even of their graves.
Right and the church on the side of the child
The provisions in force clearly confirm the work to bury dead children as well. erstwhile the parents do not collect the remains from the hospital, the ceremony – most frequently collective – is organised by the municipality. The Catholic Church leaves the decision on the form of burial to parents and allows the ceremony of children who died before baptism if there was a desire to give it.
A cemetery that cries louder than protests
A collective burial of 48 children in Zakopane is simply a silent but powerful cry of conscience. It shows that the fact about the dignity of a human individual does not request ideology or political disputes.
As Dr. Piotr Guzdek emphasizes, it is simply a "positive pro-life communication" – 1 in which 1 does not shout with slogans, but worships the deceased child.
We know 1 thing: a nation that can bend over the grave of the smallest man has a conscience. And that's what we're fighting for today.
jb
Source: PAP, rmf24.pl, krakow.tvp.pl, news.wp.pl
