Is there is some sort of ritual Juche significance to executing people in ways that don’t even leave a corpse behind? The God-King just vanishes you from existence?
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Pre-empting disruptive funeral processions and sites of veneration may offer enough ‘utilitarian’ benefits even if there’s no further ritual signaling payoff to be had. The State gets to maintain its monopoly on signaling and withhold it from parties sympathetic to the deceased.
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