Charles Manson's grandson seeks 'another way' to bury cult leader after GoFundMe shuts down campaign

[brooklynite]

New York Daily News:

Charles Manson's grandson isn't giving up his plan to claim and bury the mass murderer, even after GoFundMe pulled the plug on his fundraising website Thursday.

"If we can't raise money with GoFundMe, we'll find another way. It will definitely be a group effort. It's not just one person, it's a lot of people holding hands," Jason Freeman told the Daily News.

Freeman, 41, said he was on a Thanksgiving walk in some Ohio woods when he learned the crowd-sourcing page set up by his friend John Jones had been deactivated.

The fundraiser reached $979 before GoFundMe shut it down and was meant to cover the legal, travel and burial fees associated with claiming Manson's remains in California.

If burial is that important, I'm thinking: stop at Home Depot for a shovel and then drive out to the desert.

[Mike Nelson]

1. How sad...

...a burial place will be the target of vandalism. Manson should be quietly cremated.

[Initech]

6. Yeah I can't imagine there's a cemetery in this country...

That would want the negative publicity that comes with having that monster buried there.

[steve2470]

13. I agree

Some really twisted people will make it a place of homage so to speak.

[Irish_Dem]

2. I'm mixed. He deserves nothing, but family should be able to bury their kin.

He should be cremated and ashes moved to a non public location.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. Geez, Manson was 83

If a burial and funeral were so important to the grandson he should have started saving years ago, not expect the general public to open their wallets.

[EL34x4]

22. He was likely hoping for a GoFundMe windfall...

...from the crowd who thought Manson T-Shirts were cool and the legions of others who made Charles Manson the most corresponded with prisoner in the United States.

[wryter2000]

4. Manson had a child?

I had no idea

[Brother Buzz]

7. The other day I heard there were NO known relatives then this (apparently there were three children)

Freeman is the son of Charles Manson Jr., who was one of three children born to Manson and his first wife, Rosalie.

Manson Jr. changed his name to Jay White to distance himself from his father. He committed suicide in 1993, in his late 30s.

Freeman said he used to blame his grandfather for his father’s suicide, but was able to forgive him after speaking on the telephone with him about eight years ago.

http://www.newsweek.com/charles-mansons-grandson-wants-give-cult-leader-proper-burial-717828

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. He has tons of cousins (some as close as first) still living in Ashland, KY.

I actually know one of them - an elderly lady.

None want to claim him, though.

[Leith]

8. Neither Did I

Imagine being a descendent of a monster like that.

[Drahthaardogs]

5. It's still America.

A grandson should be able to claim his grandfather's corpse no matter who he was.

[Lint Head]

9. Screw that egomaniacal killer. Stick his carcass in the sewer

so everyone can shit on it.

[Horse with no Name]

11. He should just cremate him

If the family wishes to memorialize him with disbursing the ashes, then they should do so.
If they just want to move forward, they can throw them away.

There just shouldn't be a memorial to this man by way of gravesite. It will just cause grief.

[treestar]

23. True, that could cost a lot too maybe

And scatter his ashes somewhere. That is what Jim Jones' children did with him.

[Thor_MN]

24. Not to mention public health hazard. I wouldn't exect lines like for Dick Chenney's grave,

but there are enough people that would want to piss on his grave that the property values downwind would drop.

My dream retirement gig is to own the nearest beer concession upwind of Chenney's grave. Would be able to sell out of date Keystone at premium prices, Blatz as a top shelf upgrade.

[Raine]

12. dump him out in the desert like

he did with some of his victims.

[dembotoz]

14. Perhaps it is too much to expect a level of civilization.

Perhaps we do not wish to demonstrate that we are different from him

[LuckyCharms]

15. +1. n/t

[sammythecat]

16. A +1 from me too

His relatives don't deserve punishment for Manson's crimes. If they want to ask for help with the costs of burial, no one should stand in their way.

[Egnever]

17. Agreed

Well stated.

[nini]

19. Yea.. it is too much

This guy was a monster beyond words.

The state will give him a burial if no one else does. Let the state put him in the ground and be done with him.

[dembotoz]

21. Happy Thanksgiving to u 2

[moriah]

18. Funerals are expensive.

I think his grandson should have every right to collect his remains.

And GoFundMe had every right to say "Sorry, we don't want to be associated with this."

I still don't have headstones for my father or grandmother, or the cenotaph for my grandfather, but they are all at least in the ground. And as far as the reason for a cenotaph being needed, we finally determined what alias he died under and where he's buried, but I don't have the cash to move him across several states to the family cemetery. A cenotaph will be sufficient to honor my father's desire to know what happened to his dad (he didn't before he died, I kept on searching in his memory).

[struggle4progress]

20. Freeman's father (Charles Jr, later known as Jay White) committed suicide twenty-some years ago,

allegedly because he couldn't live with his own father's history. This must not be a pleasant family situation for Freeman