# Religions where they have to save removed body pieces for burial when person dies.

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In “The Last Emperor”, Egg Chen comments that the Eunuchs have little boxes containing their removed testicles, so they can be buried with them and be whole men in the afterlife.

No idea of whether this actually happened in real life.

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