Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> Oh pshaw, on Tue 22 Aug 2006 02:58:59a, Michael "Dog3" Lonergan meant to
> say...
>
> > Damsel in dis Dress >
> > :
> >
> >>
> >> Does it really matter how the desserts were displayed? They were made
> >> or purchased with love.
> >>
> >> I usually ignore dead spread threads, feeling that they're
> >> inappropriate, but that's just me. And a few others. You got lucky
> >> this time. I can't sleep. <G>
> >>
> >> Carol
> >
> > Why do you feel the "dead spread threads" are inappropriate? I don't.
>
> Let's face it...you just like a GOOD PARTY! :-)
>
> Personally, I'm with Carol.


Funerals and the whole culture around them are extremely morbid. I will
NEVER attend another funeral (and that includes a parental unit)...

Everyone should be cremated, no idiotic preacher service, no laying out the
deceased like a piece of meat on a slab, no wakes, no visitation, no
awfulness of burying someone to rot in the ground, no crappy and
insensitive "dead spread". This stuff is not only disrespectful to the
memory of the deceased, it's disprespectful to put the survivors through all
this crappy contrived drama.

If someone wants to hold some kind of remembrance service or party, that's
fine with me, but NONE of this funeral "business"...

In fact several folks I know who've recently passed on didn't even want any
kind of party or service or whatever, they just wanted their loved ones to
remember them as they had been in life. That's fine with me...

If you really want to be put off by the whole funeral schtick read
_Wisconsin Death Trip_, if you are wavering on the subject this will
absolutely convince you of the utter ghoulishness of the standard American
death rites.

--
Best
Greg

writes:
>
>Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> Oh pshaw, on Tue 22 Aug 2006 02:58:59a, Michael "Dog3" Lonergan meant to
>> say...
>>
>> > Damsel in dis Dress >
>> > :
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Does it really matter how the desserts were displayed? They were made
>> >> or purchased with love.
>> >>
>> >> I usually ignore dead spread threads, feeling that they're
>> >> inappropriate, but that's just me. And a few others. You got lucky
>> >> this time. I can't sleep. <G>
>> >>
>> >> Carol
>> >
>> > Why do you feel the "dead spread threads" are inappropriate? I don't.
>>
>> Let's face it...you just like a GOOD PARTY! :-)
>>
>> Personally, I'm with Carol.
>
>
>Funerals and the whole culture around them are extremely morbid. I will
>NEVER attend another funeral (and that includes a parental unit)...
>
>Everyone should be cremated, no idiotic preacher service, no laying out the
>deceased like a piece of meat on a slab, no wakes, no visitation, no
>awfulness of burying someone to rot in the ground, no crappy and
>insensitive "dead spread". This stuff is not only disrespectful to the
>memory of the deceased, it's disprespectful to put the survivors through all
>this crappy contrived drama.
>
>If someone wants to hold some kind of remembrance service or party, that's
>fine with me, but NONE of this funeral "business"...
>
>In fact several folks I know who've recently passed on didn't even want any
>kind of party or service or whatever, they just wanted their loved ones to
>remember them as they had been in life. That's fine with me...
>
>If you really want to be put off by the whole funeral schtick read
>_Wisconsin Death Trip_, if you are wavering on the subject this will
>absolutely convince you of the utter ghoulishness of the standard American
>death rites.
>
>--
>Best
>Greg


hey Greg

did you know that your name rhymes with "Wackery Wacko"?

tert in seattle wrote:

writes:
> >
> >Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> >
> >> Oh pshaw, on Tue 22 Aug 2006 02:58:59a, Michael "Dog3" Lonergan meant
to
> >> say...
> >>
> >> > Damsel in dis Dress >
> >> > :
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Does it really matter how the desserts were displayed? They were
made
> >> >> or purchased with love.
> >> >>
> >> >> I usually ignore dead spread threads, feeling that they're
> >> >> inappropriate, but that's just me. And a few others. You got lucky
> >> >> this time. I can't sleep. <G>
> >> >>
> >> >> Carol
> >> >
> >> > Why do you feel the "dead spread threads" are inappropriate? I
don't.
> >>
> >> Let's face it...you just like a GOOD PARTY! :-)
> >>
> >> Personally, I'm with Carol.
> >
> >
> >Funerals and the whole culture around them are extremely morbid. I will
> >NEVER attend another funeral (and that includes a parental unit)...
> >
> >Everyone should be cremated, no idiotic preacher service, no laying out
the
> >deceased like a piece of meat on a slab, no wakes, no visitation, no
> >awfulness of burying someone to rot in the ground, no crappy and
> >insensitive "dead spread". This stuff is not only disrespectful to the
> >memory of the deceased, it's disprespectful to put the survivors through
all
> >this crappy contrived drama.
> >
> >If someone wants to hold some kind of remembrance service or party,
that's
> >fine with me, but NONE of this funeral "business"...
> >
> >In fact several folks I know who've recently passed on didn't even want
any
> >kind of party or service or whatever, they just wanted their loved ones
to
> >remember them as they had been in life. That's fine with me...
> >
> >If you really want to be put off by the whole funeral schtick read
> >_Wisconsin Death Trip_, if you are wavering on the subject this will
> >absolutely convince you of the utter ghoulishness of the standard
American
> >death rites.
> >
> >--
> >Best
> >Greg
>
>
> hey Greg
>
> did you know that your name rhymes with "Wackery Wacko"?
>


Is that a "Tusharism"...???

)

--
Best
Greg

writes:
>
>tert in seattle wrote:
>
>>
>> hey Greg
>>
>> did you know that your name rhymes with "Wackery Wacko"?
>>
>
>
>Is that a "Tusharism"...???
>
>)


I hope I die far enough in the future that they'll have perfected 3 - d
animated hologram technology ... that way I can give my own eulogy....!!!

tert in trnovo escribe:

> writes:
> >
> >tert in seattle wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> hey Greg
> >>
> >> did you know that your name rhymes with "Wackery Wacko"?
> >>
> >
> >
> >Is that a "Tusharism"...???
> >
> >)
>
>
> I hope I die far enough in the future that they'll have perfected 3 - d
> animated hologram technology ... that way I can give my own eulogy....!!!
>


They were talking about "video tombstones" on the Kathy & Judy Show on WGN
this morning...it's no lie!

--
Best
Greg

writes:
>
>tert in trnovo escribe:
>
>> writes:
>> >
>> >tert in seattle wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> hey Greg
>> >>
>> >> did you know that your name rhymes with "Wackery Wacko"?
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >Is that a "Tusharism"...???
>> >
>> >)
>>
>>
>> I hope I die far enough in the future that they'll have perfected 3 - d
>> animated hologram technology ... that way I can give my own eulogy....!!!
>>
>
>
>They were talking about "video tombstones" on the Kathy & Judy Show on WGN
>this morning...it's no lie!

I'm ahead of my time

tert in seattle wrote:
>
> I'm ahead of my time

No, yer just a ST:TNG fan...
(Lt. Tasha Yar)

-L.

"Gregory Morrow" >
wrote in
ink.net:

> Funerals and the whole culture around them are extremely
> morbid. I will NEVER attend another funeral (and that
> includes a parental unit)...
>
> Everyone should be cremated, no idiotic preacher service,
> no laying out the deceased like a piece of meat on a slab,
> no wakes, no visitation, no awfulness of burying someone to
> rot in the ground, no crappy and insensitive "dead
> spread". This stuff is not only disrespectful to the
> memory of the deceased, it's disprespectful to put the
> survivors through all this crappy contrived drama.

you know, i was getting all set to disagree, but... i don't.
i think the funeral director society has far too much clout in
deciding how these things will be run & how much they're going
to make off the bereaved.
however, the wake & dead spread and any subsequent party is
all the bereaved family's thing. it's not disrespectful of the
dead. it's celebrating the deceased's life & is the thing that
brings togeather the living. i've never been to a wake that
was 'full of contrived drama', even the wakes for kids that
died.
>
> If someone wants to hold some kind of remembrance service
> or party, that's fine with me, but NONE of this funeral
> "business"...

ok, but a wake, a real wake, isn't visiting hours at the dead
parlor...
>
> In fact several folks I know who've recently passed on
> didn't even want any kind of party or service or whatever,
> they just wanted their loved ones to remember them as they
> had been in life. That's fine with me...

that is as it should be (unless they were real prunes in
life...)

> If you really want to be put off by the whole funeral
> schtick read _Wisconsin Death Trip_, if you are wavering on
> the subject this will absolutely convince you of the utter
> ghoulishness of the standard American death rites.

i dunno about ghoulishness. we aren't as bad as the
Victorians when it comes to that! they had so odd ideas!
lee



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