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Beez
Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:36am |
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oldslabsides wrote: I just find the idea of my rotting corpse taking up a plot of land for a very, very long time to be somehow arrogant. Or something.
Yeah....don't bury me....plant a tree or something. I know exactly where I'll be scattered and it's got nothing even to do with the ground.
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Beez
Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:35am |
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winter wrote: Me, too. Not sure where I'll want my ashes scattered, but they'd best not end up on somebody's mantle.
I want my friends to smoke my ashes.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:35am |
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Beez wrote:Same here. I just find the idea of my rotting corpse taking up a plot of land for a very, very long time to be somehow arrogant. Or something.
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Beez
Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:34am |
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winter wrote: I guess so. Although I'm not sure how dignified it is to just lie there while people parade past to look at you. At least in a reception line (like a wedding) you can converse with the happy couple.
SLIGHT SIDETRACK: wtf do you say to everyone else (like the ushers and the bridesmaids) in a reception line? "Nice job walking and standing"? "Way to be friends with someone who got married"? At least you can congratulate the bride's and groom's parents.
Kiss my ass, kiss his ass, kiss her ass, watermelon-pineapple.
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:34am |
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Beez wrote:Same here. Me, too. Not sure where I'll want my ashes scattered, but they'd best not end up on somebody's mantle.
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:34am |
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Alexandra wrote:
"How are you related to the bride/groom?" "Wasn't that a beautiful ceremony?" etc etc... That makes sense. I always just kind of smile and nod at them - dudes, it's not your wedding, really it's all about the happy couple. (It feels like congratulating the hot dog vendors when the team wins a game.) In the unlikely event that I get married, I'll want the reception line to be for the bride and I.
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Beez
Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:31am |
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oldslabsides wrote:I'm opposed to caskets - open or closed. Give me an urn, please.
Same here.
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:30am |
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oldslabsides wrote: I could hardly even make eye contact with her momma at first, after having just had a meltdown in the back of church with meower.
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:29am |
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winter wrote: SLIGHT SIDETRACK: wtf do you say to everyone else (like the ushers and the bridesmaids) in a reception line? "How are you related to the bride/groom?" "Wasn't that a beautiful ceremony?" etc etc...
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:28am |
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Alexandra wrote:
There was one viewing I just couldn't bring myself to attend, not too long ago. Just couldn't do it. I think you know whose.....
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justlistening
Location: So. California Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:27am |
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winter wrote: I guess so. Although I'm not sure how dignified it is to just lie there while people parade past to look at you. At least in a reception line (like a wedding) you can converse with the happy couple.
SLIGHT SIDETRACK: wtf do you say to everyone else (like the ushers and the bridesmaids) in a reception line? "Nice job walking and standing"? "Way to be friends with someone who got married"? At least you can congratulate the bride's and groom's parents.
I usually say something like - sure glad this isn't a funeral, and when do you think we'll eat - that ceremony was waaaay to long.
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:24am |
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justlistening wrote:
I guess, as Alexandra has said, there is the psychological aspect of closure for the family. At the open-casket wakes I've been to the casket is usally open at the front of a room surrounded by flowers and the room is set up to pay respects. I think a curtain is a good idea - affording the deceased some dignity they can't demand on their own. I guess so. Although I'm not sure how dignified it is to just lie there while people parade past to look at you. At least in a reception line (like a wedding) you can converse with the happy couple. SLIGHT SIDETRACK: wtf do you say to everyone else (like the ushers and the bridesmaids) in a reception line? "Nice job walking and standing"? "Way to be friends with someone who got married"? At least you can congratulate the bride's and groom's parents.
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:24am |
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oldslabsides wrote:
exactamundo.
There was one viewing I just couldn't bring myself to attend, not too long ago. Just couldn't do it. I think you know whose.....
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:22am |
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winter wrote:We had viewings at both of my grandparents' funerals. I attended both, but I avoided actually gong up and viewing the body myself. I didn't want to remember the lifeless body lying in a casket - I wanted to remember them alive and happy and loving.
exactamundo.
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:20am |
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Prodigal_SOB wrote:I've always sort of assumed that it will be months before anyone finds me and I will already have been eaten by a starving dog.
That's why, after watching "127 Hours" I now TELL people when I'm hiking/biking alone, and where I am.
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Prodigal_SOB
Location: Back Home Again in Indiana Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:19am |
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I've always sort of assumed that it will be months before anyone finds me and I will already have been eaten by a starving dog.
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buzz
Location: up the boohai
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:19am |
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oldslabsides wrote:I'm opposed to caskets - open or closed. Give me an urn, please. if you urn it, they'll tax it
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:18am |
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justlistening wrote:
I guess, as Alexandra has said, there is the psychological aspect of closure for the family. At the open-casket wakes I've been to the casket is usally open at the front of a room surrounded by flowers and the room is set up to pay respects. I think a curtain is a good idea - affording the deceased some dignity they can't demand on their own.
Exactly!
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:18am |
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We had viewings at both of my grandparents' funerals. I attended both, but I avoided actually gong up and viewing the body myself. I didn't want to remember the lifeless body lying in a casket - I wanted to remember them alive and happy and loving.
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justlistening
Location: So. California Gender:
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Aug 4, 2011 - 10:17am |
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Proclivities wrote: I've been to a few too many open-casket wakes. I understand their purpose but maybe their time has passed.
I guess, as Alexandra has said, there is the psychological aspect of closure for the family. At the open-casket wakes I've been to the casket is usally open at the front of a room surrounded by flowers and the room is set up to pay respects. I think a curtain is a good idea - affording the deceased some dignity they can't demand on their own.
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