No one has ever played the sintha pipes like Kipor Granska, and he made a good living at it. He never made a fortune, but he and his family, including sixteen children, forty-seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren certainly didn't 
starve. But now he's dead, aged 109, it appears Granska is worth far, far more than he ever was alive. What's more, his corpse has gone missing! Well, not missing, exactly, because his brother, Simor, has it - according to Granska's life-mate of some 52 years and mother of his children, Poola, 103.
Today, accompanied by three of her offspring and six of her grandchildren, she swore out a warrant at the Supreme Court in Ghanda Sha, the capital city of Poomar, the second largest nation on the planet, Baycamor.
In the warrant, she accuses Simor Granska of seeking to sell DNA, taken from his brother's body, to any couple wanting to have a child with a talent for music at some time. This practice is far from unusual on Baycamor. Families often choose to have one child born with intellectual abilities, another with a leaning towards the arts, and yet another will be genetically ' encouraged' to pursue a life devoted to religion, and so on. What Simor Granska is doing, in fact, is speculating in DNA ' futures'. At present, the fashion is for sport's heroes and heroines - prize fighters and the like. It is their DNA which is fetching the highest price. But Simor is confident that, one day, musicians will be back in vogue and he'll thaw Kipor's body out and make a killing.
There is scant Poomar case law available to deal with this highly sensitive issue, which is further complicated by the fact that Kipor Granska died intestate. Under Poomar law, where a person dies without leaving instructions for the distribution of his property and such, the male side of the family always inherits the deceased's property, while the female side can only inherit the land. Monies are divided, sixty percent to the sibling males and forty percent to the females. Grandchildren and their descendants are not included.
What Poola Granska is hoping is that Poomar law does not designate her life-mate's body as ' property'. Rather, she is hoping that Kipor Granska's body will be returned to her, so it may be accorded the dignified disposal it deserves.
