Guy dies...but the mass goes on

[athon]

Could you imagine this happening (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/24/wrome124.xml) in anything else? Ok, maybe apart from a football game in the UK...

Athon

[Ralph]

My guess is he was pretending to toss some money into the collection plate but actually palmed a few Lira OUT of the plate.

You might fool the guy passing the basket---but you're not going to slide this by Jesus.

I hope nobody tripped over him on their way out.

[GregC]

I remember back when I was a kid, the preists and the nuns saying that once you start a mass you don't stop. Well, I'll be! I always thought it was BS. :D

[hgc]

Yeah? I want to see what happens when the shaman priest drops dead.

[six7s]

Matthew 18:20 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2018:20;&version=9;) (New Woo Version)
20For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them
20a And verily I see say unto thee I am a busy God, so don't y'all go faffing about tending to your mere mortal wants and needs
20bFor that will incureth my wrath like there shall be no tomorrow
20cMy tippeth to thee: Do not pusheth thy luck, not eveneth ifeth/wheneth one of your number poppeths his clogs

[Redtail]

Could you imagine this happening (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/24/wrome124.xml) in anything else? Ok, maybe apart from a football game in the UK...

Athon

Actually, IIRC, Something like this happened at a Chicago Bears game this season.

[Tumblehome]

Newton had this covered. The dead body obviously wasn't enough to overcome the inertia of the mass.

[SonOfLaertes]

Could you imagine this happening (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/24/wrome124.xml) in anything else? Ok, maybe apart from a football game in the UK...

Athon

Actually, something similar happened while I was attending Mass as a child back in the sixties. A man in the rear of the church gave out a strangled cry
and collapsed. A few in attendance carried him out to the lobby and I could hear their frantic attempts to resuscitate him mixed in with the drone of the priest as he said mass. I remember looking around frantically at the stone-faced adults surrounding me, wondering why mass was not stopped.

We later learned the man had died before the ambulance arrived. Apparently the church is dead serious about mass not being halted.

Funny thing is I had completely forgotten this whole incident until I read the OP, even though it made a big impression on me at the time.

[CFLarsen]

Could you imagine this happening (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/24/wrome124.xml) in anything else? Ok, maybe apart from a football game in the UK...

Athon

I can:

1955 Le Mans disaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster)

Ayrton Senna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayrton_Senna)

[XBoxWarrior]

It is against Italian law to move a body without the authorisation (add a Z in the US) of a local magistrate.

Didn't this happen in the UK?

Are they still ruled by the Roman's?

Who cares if the dude died? other than his immediate family, and perhaps the dude running the scam, (i.e. priest).......so the collection plate gets a little lighter?

Onward christian soldiers!

[geni]

Didn't this happen in the UK?


No it happened in rome.

[six7s]

Newton had this covered. The dead body obviously wasn't enough to overcome the inertia of the mass.

Perhaps this explains the priest's reluctance to hurry things along, fearing that - with F equalling ma - any change in speed or direction might risk the deceased slipping over to the Dark Side (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_side_of_the_Force)

[geni]

Could you imagine this happening (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/24/wrome124.xml) in anything else? Ok, maybe apart from a football game in the UK...

Athon

Almost any big public event would carry one (if only due the crowd control problems caused by stopping). For something this small to carry on would be unusal but that is partialy because generaly the disruption caused would make it imposible to carry on.

[Rob Lister]

The guy is dead...why stop?

[XBoxWarrior]

No it happened in rome.

Ok, the web-site fooled me.

But spot on, the dude is "dead", carry on.......

[Macoy]

Perhaps it was a 'demi-rapture', in the right place at the wrong time.

[SonOfLaertes]

The guy is dead...why stop?

Unless the guy was, well, not dead, and just nearly dead. Seems a little callous to throw a sheet over a guy with a hard-to-detect pulse.