Monday, August 06, 2012

Mirror Synchronicity: Body Disposition Court Cases in Pop Culture


(yes, I watch too much television, probably.)


There were two different television shows within a few weeks of each other that depicted court cases where two different parties were fighting over rights to the body of a loved one. 

Curious - does anyone know if this happens often? It's weird that two different writers would have the idea of dispute of body disposition. Was there something in real life that inspired these?



















Franklin & Bash - Season 2, Episode 8 (on TNT) Last Dance
Peter and Jared help a widow (Anne Ramsay) retain the body of her esteemed late husband from being awkwardly immortalized as a dancer in a human body exhibit.


Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime) Season 4, Episode 9 : Ashes to Ashes
Airs Sunday, August 5, 2012: Jane is ready to put Owen behind her when she takes on a case with Grayson defending a woman who is addicted to eating her dead husband's ashes.

1 comment:

Trish and Rob MacGregor said...

Not weird at all. Ideas are born in the soup of the collective unconscious and there have been many incidents of simultaneous submissions on story ideas for books, TV series etc. This one is, though, a bit od!