-- BEIJING (Reuters) -- A Chinese official has been sacked from his Communist Party post and demoted for putting on an over-lavish funeral for his mother, state media said on Tuesday.I get that this guy really loved his mother... but aren't Communists also atheists? You'd think maybe funerals would be a lower key event when you're officially godless.
It seems to me... you think forcibly whipping together a thousand of your underlings to give mom a showy sendoff to the commie equivalent of the hereafter is a really great idea... maybe you have chosen show business, instead of a civil service career.
Xie organized more than 1,000 people, including eight officials and staff members of the highway administration, to attend his mother's funeral in November, according to a report of the Guangdong provincial discipline watchdog.I dunno... maybe I'm missing something here.
"Xie and his siblings erected a stage more than 20 meters high for people to pay their tributes and employed a 20-member band to perform music during the funeral procession," the China Daily said.
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