Thou Shalt Keep Thy Promise—Even In Death

S.M.Singru

We are well versed with the famous admonition from Lord Rama in Ramayan that a promise has to be fulfilled, even though one has to pay the price by losing one’s life for this. Well, a group of booze-lovers in Peru did something better than this. One Friday night, after having drinks at their favourite pub, they dispersed after solemnly promising each other that they would meet the next Friday evening at the pub. But one of them suddenly died in the week following. What intrigued the police was that the dead man’s body went missing on the coming Friday. The body was located in the evening—at the favourite pub. There the group had gathered for the promised drink, and in order to complete the quorum, they had stolen their friend’s body from the morgue and quietly brought it to the pub, for a last drink. After all, a promise is a promise, right?