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I think BGB §18 is fascinating:
As far as I understood this, if you have to transport a corpse in Germany, you have to be a trustworthy person according to the German Civil Code (BGB). However, you do NOT have to be a trustworthy person to transport a skeleton. So if you see someone with a fresh corpse in the trunk of a car in Germany, you can rest assured. You can blindly trust this person. If, on the other hand, you see someone with a pile of skeletons in their car, then you should quickly take cover.
I wonder how they define "trustworthy" here and why is trust so important for this task
That's an entire thing in German law. You also need trustworthyness to own a gun or get a drivers license. It basically means that those aren't rights but privileges which can be taken away if you commit an offense which may or may not be directly related.
I'd like to see a person who applies for a gun license and needs to show that they are trustworthy and then says "and I am also going to cary a corpse in my car"
Can you post the original text? according to this official portal the §§15-20 have been removed from the law
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/___15_bis_20.html
Oh, that's a sad loss of a fun law... Well, I don't have an original text, since I was just pointed to a snippet of it a long time ago. It stuck with me because of how morbid it was.
I do have some memories on other fun implications of laws due to how specific they are. I can post some from memory if you like. Something about lawnmowers and defective cars for example.