OT:Embalmed Body Found in Artist's Studio

[DustBunny]

LONDON (Reuters) - A British artist kept the preserved body of a tramp at
his studio for nearly 20 years, The Times newspaper says.
The embalmed body of Edwin McKenzie was discovered in the workshop of his
former close friend Plymouth artist Robert Lenkiewicz who himself died this
summer. McKenzie had been preserved and hidden in 1984.
"I am satisfied he (McKenzie) died of natural causes and I am now prepared
to release the body," Plymouth coroner Nigel Meadows was quoted as saying.
"The practical difficulty is to whom."
Lenkiewicz often used vagrants as models for his paintings, which often
carried an anti-establishment message.
Newspapers said McKenzie, who was living in a barrel at the time he met
Lenkiewicz, had requested the artist embalm him.

[Al Fresco]

>A British artist kept the preserved body of a tramp at
>his studio for nearly 20 years,

Haven't we gotten past this kind of insensitive language? The correct term is
"bum."

http://www.littletinywit.com/Column_10072002.html
http://www.littletinywit.com/Column_10052002.html

I sit in judgment.