Social Advocacy for Dead People

Good evening, infidels. I mean, all readers of this blog. Today, I an here to expound on an extremely disgusting behavioural instinct of humans. This behaviour, is one of such revolt, such horror, unthinkable even. It is the utter discrimination against dead people.

Ahah! I already hear some of you out there sniggering, laughing, or even expressing your disgust at me. This mentality is exactly what I am referring to. Now, all sorts of discrimination are already going on in this putrid environment we call society. Racial discrimination, gender discrimination, whatever discrimination. You name it, you got it. However, there is none more horrid than that, that of the discrimination against dead people. Dead people have no rights. Look at the above examples of discrimination I gave above: although they are all disgusting, the people discriminated against still have rights to a certain extent. Dead people have NONE. Are they not human? Are they not citizens of the country in which they live in? Therein lies the failing of the current social systems as we know them. They give no respect to the dead.

This is why the dead people should have their rights: their social rights, their economical rights, their political rights. Firstly, their social rights. Examples like rights to proper housing can be brought up here. These dead citizens are either cramped rather unceremoniously into rooms filled with jars, or they are trapped beneath the surface, never to see the light. This, as the government says, is to save land space and money. After all, Singapore has such limited land space that it is alright for dead people to have sub-par living standards right? WRONG. The dead are human, are they not? As such, they should have the same rights which every other perfectly normal human being in Singapore has to proper housing. The Housing Development Board has created miracles in the past. Let them do the same again, to help the dead who cannot voice their woes.

Secondly, there is also their economical rights. Like every normal citizen of Singapore, the dead should also have the rights to a job. I hear people laughing again! This is exactly the mentality which should be abolished! Companies who practice meritocracy should allow dead people to get a decent job in their companies, not just dismiss them without saying a word like I see in not a majority, but ALL of the companies here. This behaviour is simply outrageous! If fellow citizens can get a proper job, why can't the dead do so as well?

Finally, there are their political rights. Dead people, as decreed by the government, are unable to vote during elections. Now although it may not matter to some whether Mr. Brown is going to become the next President or not, but the fact is dead people do not even have the ability to select who should become their new leader. They are at a serious handicap in the political scene in Singapore. They cannot even send political parties and even representitives for Parliament. As a result, they will forever live in the shadows of the political scene which already treats them like dirt and utter trash. Are they not citizens of the country in which they dwell? In fact, I can also state with conviction that the dead make up the majority of people in our nation. With the majority unable to attain their rights, that is a revolting truth in its own.

The dead people are oppressed. They cannot voice their helplessness, their urge to change the world as we know it. And that is why I am here. I speak for them, tell the world of their agony. I have a dream, that one day dead people shall be free of the indifference the rest of the world treats them with.

I have a dream, that one day dead people shall finally get what they truly deserve.

I have a dream, that one day people shall learn to respect the dead as some of us do now.

I have a dream, that one day I shall eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

I have a dream.

-Idea koped from Bryan Cheong. Yup, it's not original. Well, the idea isn't at least. Just thought it'll be fun to write something like that out. :P

PS: If you think this post was meant to be serious... I have nothing to say.