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Beez

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Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama
Gender: Female


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:36am

 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.

Beez

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Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama
Gender: Female


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:35am

 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.  {#Lol}

Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:35am

 Beez wrote:

Same here.  {#Yes}

 
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.

Beez

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Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama
Gender: Female


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:34am

 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.

winter

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Location: in exile, as always
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:34am

 Beez wrote:

Same here.  {#Yes}
 
Me, too. Not sure where I'll want my ashes scattered, but they'd best not end up on somebody's mantle.
winter

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Location: in exile, as always
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:34am

 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.
Beez

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Location: Lookout Mountain, Alabama
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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:31am

 oldslabsides wrote:
I'm opposed to caskets - open or closed.  Give me an urn, please.

 
Same here.  {#Yes}
Alexandra

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Location: PNW
Gender: Female


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:30am

 oldslabsides wrote:




 

{#Hug}

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.


Alexandra

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Location: PNW
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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:29am

 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...
Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:28am

 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.....

 


justlistening

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Location: So. California
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:27am

 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.  {#Wink}
winter

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Location: in exile, as always
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:24am

 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. 
Alexandra

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Location: PNW
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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:24am

 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.....
Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:22am

 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.
Alexandra

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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:20am

 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. {#Eek}
Prodigal_SOB

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Location: Back Home Again in Indiana
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:19am

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.
 
buzz

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Location: up the boohai


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:19am

 oldslabsides wrote:
I'm opposed to caskets - open or closed.  Give me an urn, please.
 
if you urn it, they'll tax it
Alexandra

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Location: PNW
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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:18am

 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!
winter

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Location: in exile, as always
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:18am

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.
justlistening

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Location: So. California
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 4, 2011 - 10:17am

 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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