Tattoos

[RustySword]

I hope the murderer is in jail doing time ?
God bless.

Thank you all for your kind words.

One of his murderers is on Texas' death row - he was sentenced on August 21 of this year. The average time on death row in Texas is a little over 10 years.

The other murderer is still in the Dallas County Jail awaiting trial. We are not sure whether he will face death or just life without parole.

I didn't mean to hijack this thread, but again I want to thank y'all for your condolances and concern. Despite our Plymouth Brethren background, one of the reasons why we are now firmly entrenched with the Southern Baptists is all the help they have been to us through this ordeal.

 

[ShotGunWillie]

Wow - this one hits close to home.

My oldest son was murdered in June of 2008 while standing outside a Christian recording studio, where he served as the sound engineer. All three of my children were very close growing up. My daughter - his younger sister by 2 years - made a copy of his signiture from the lease they had signed (they all rented a house together), took it to a tattoo artist, and he enlarged it, made a stencil out of it, and tattooed it onto the back of her neck, where it is covered by her hair unless she is wearing it up.

So one could say that she tattooed herself for the dead. But somehow, I doubt if this was the spirit of the command in Leviticus.

Some of my friends, especially the ones that have tattoos, were very touched by this and suggested I do the same thing, only maybe on an upper arm. I have resisted so far - I have an aversion to needles.

I heard about this, oddly, it was on the Ticket 1310 where I got most of the news concerning this incident.