If you died today.... - Page 2

gobbomom · #11 10-26-2007, 05:58 PM

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I'm not having a funeral, I think they're dumb.

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I don't think you'll havemuch say in the matter.

EDIT: In what way do you find funerals dumb?

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of course I have a say in the matter. My kids know I don't want a funeral. Funerals serve 3 purposes:
1) to memorialize the dead person's life
I feel no need for this because the best things I accomplished in this life live on after me
2) to give a sense of closure
I think this is unnecessary because there never really is closure when the dead person's memory lives on forever. I'd prefer to remember someone, and have others remember me, as a living vibrant being.
3) to provide comfort to the surviving loved ones
I don't think there is any comfort involved in a funeral. I think it's a huge imposition to ask of those in mourning to entertain and put on a happy face for an audience. Or conversely, show how well or not they handle their very private feelings.

oddjob · #12 10-26-2007, 06:00 PM

my 2 bowling buddies would probably just spread my ashes.

NT! · #13 10-26-2007, 06:01 PM

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I think it's a huge imposition to ask of those in mourning to entertain and put on a happy face for an audience.

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yeah because it's totally customary for next of kin to do a little tap dance, or some vaudeville prior to the eulogy.

i'm going to let the living decide what to do with my corpse, so long as i'm not a financial burden i think anything else is vain.

oddjob · #14 10-26-2007, 06:01 PM

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I'm not having a funeral, I think they're dumb.

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I don't think you'll havemuch say in the matter.

EDIT: In what way do you find funerals dumb?

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of course I have a say in the matter. My kids know I don't want a funeral. Funerals serve 3 purposes:
1) to memorialize the dead person's life
I feel no need for this because the best things I accomplished in this life live on after me
2) to give a sense of closure
I think this is unnecessary because there never really is closure when the dead person's memory lives on forever. I'd prefer to remember someone, and have others remember me, as a living vibrant being.
3) to provide comfort to the surviving loved ones
I don't think there is any comfort involved in a funeral. I think it's a huge imposition to ask of those in mourning to entertain and put on a happy face for an audience. Or conversely, show how well or not they handle their very private feelings.

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you're so deep

gobbomom · #15 10-26-2007, 06:03 PM

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you're so deep

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well then I guess it's time for some wine.

istewart · #16 10-26-2007, 06:05 PM

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My kids

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Describing gobboboy in the plural is just mean, dude.

Klompy · #17 10-26-2007, 06:07 PM

I don't have a clue how many people would show up, but I bet the number would depend a lot on how I died.

Autocratic · #18 10-26-2007, 06:46 PM

All I know is that I told my Dad I want my ashes thrown at a pedestrian on the street. The funeral is of secondary importance.

XXXNoahXXX · #19 10-26-2007, 07:37 PM

I want my tombstone to be a life-sized replica of me in a basketball jersey, with my name across the top of the back and my number being the last two digits of the year I died.

As for my funeral, I honestly could care less. Actually, I think I'd like to be cremated and spread somewhere though because then my family won't feel obligated to visit some grave site.

Either that or have my corpse cooked into a stew for my family to eat so that I can live on through them.

neuroman · #20 10-26-2007, 07:55 PM

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I think I'd like to be cremated and spread somewhere

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