Remains to be seen….
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 14:27 last edited by
No discussion? This is the one of the most bizarre thing I've seen on the internet. It raises so many questions, such as
"Who are these people? How did he die?"
"Who thought a glass coffin was a good idea to market?"
"Is the the future of the funeral industry?"
"Why isn't the corpse better posed?"
"Why is the mourner wearing matching clothes?"
"Isn't that plexiglass acting like a greenhouse in the sun and baking the body?"
"His left leg looks like it might be broken, seems an awkward angle"
"Are grave robbers going to go after his kicks?"
FWIW, I think death is handled very badly in the US, and the funeral industry is both exploitative and does not help people to grieve properly. So, if this helps the woman to process the death of her beloved, that's OK, but it seems really creepy.
Your thoughts?
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No discussion? This is the one of the most bizarre thing I've seen on the internet. It raises so many questions, such as
"Who are these people? How did he die?"
"Who thought a glass coffin was a good idea to market?"
"Is the the future of the funeral industry?"
"Why isn't the corpse better posed?"
"Why is the mourner wearing matching clothes?"
"Isn't that plexiglass acting like a greenhouse in the sun and baking the body?"
"His left leg looks like it might be broken, seems an awkward angle"
"Are grave robbers going to go after his kicks?"
FWIW, I think death is handled very badly in the US, and the funeral industry is both exploitative and does not help people to grieve properly. So, if this helps the woman to process the death of her beloved, that's OK, but it seems really creepy.
Your thoughts?
wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 14:29 last edited byThose are all great questions.
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No discussion? This is the one of the most bizarre thing I've seen on the internet. It raises so many questions, such as
"Who are these people? How did he die?"
"Who thought a glass coffin was a good idea to market?"
"Is the the future of the funeral industry?"
"Why isn't the corpse better posed?"
"Why is the mourner wearing matching clothes?"
"Isn't that plexiglass acting like a greenhouse in the sun and baking the body?"
"His left leg looks like it might be broken, seems an awkward angle"
"Are grave robbers going to go after his kicks?"
FWIW, I think death is handled very badly in the US, and the funeral industry is both exploitative and does not help people to grieve properly. So, if this helps the woman to process the death of her beloved, that's OK, but it seems really creepy.
Your thoughts?
wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 14:32 last edited by@Ivorythumper said in Remains to be seen….:
No discussion?
I didn't post because I was trying to figure out WTF, and then I forgot all about it. (Mind like a steel sieve, that's me.)
I'm thinking it's a stunt. That guy ain't dead. Look at his hands.
So another interesting question is, why on earth did they set it up? Was there any other info at the site where you found it?
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 14:33 last edited by
Where I come from, viewings of the body really aren't a thing.
I find the whole body-viewing really upsetting. I was given the opportunity to see my dad's body at the undertakers after he died, and I just couldn't do it. I didn't want that to be my last memory of him.
I've been to a couple of funerals in the US where the body is on display, and I find it really disturbing. Maybe I'm the one with the issue, I don't know.
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 14:42 last edited by
This may be a pivotal development for the art of selfies.
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 14:44 last edited by
Plus, her dress is fugly.
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 14:45 last edited by
I thought somebody was merely testing a coffin.
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No discussion? This is the one of the most bizarre thing I've seen on the internet. It raises so many questions, such as
"Who are these people? How did he die?"
"Who thought a glass coffin was a good idea to market?"
"Is the the future of the funeral industry?"
"Why isn't the corpse better posed?"
"Why is the mourner wearing matching clothes?"
"Isn't that plexiglass acting like a greenhouse in the sun and baking the body?"
"His left leg looks like it might be broken, seems an awkward angle"
"Are grave robbers going to go after his kicks?"
FWIW, I think death is handled very badly in the US, and the funeral industry is both exploitative and does not help people to grieve properly. So, if this helps the woman to process the death of her beloved, that's OK, but it seems really creepy.
Your thoughts?
wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 15:06 last edited byI agree, it is really creepy. Beyond that, it leaves me cold.
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 15:16 last edited by
Cult of some kind, I'm guessing. Y'all live in too normal of a world.
You ain't lived until you see a guy get coded, surrounded by five women dressed as nuns (that ain't) that we had to shush away, and after the doc calls him and everybody medical exits the room, the head "nun" jumps astraddle the guy, beating the hell out of the body and jabbering in tongues, while the other four "nuns" wail and chant around the body in some unknown language. Or jibberish.
I thought when they requested his internal organs, it was a nice touch. We didn't give them to them. Don't know what the funeral home did...
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 15:19 last edited by
There is a lot of talk about closure and finality. Personally, I have never had any trouble believing someone is dead. Seeing their makeup caked corpse never helped in any way. Quite the opposite. I'd prefer to remember them when they were vibrant and alive.
I also never found a spouse or family member who said the funeral reduced their grief.
I think there is a value in gathering to reconnect after a death, especially in the case of the death of a spouse. You have been connected to the community as a couple, and now that has changed. Renewing those connections as a single person seems valuable.
Myself, I'm entertaining the idea of being wrapped around a newly planted tree. I'd much rather my descendants see and visit a living, helpful, beautiful tree than some cold stone.
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Cult of some kind, I'm guessing. Y'all live in too normal of a world.
You ain't lived until you see a guy get coded, surrounded by five women dressed as nuns (that ain't) that we had to shush away, and after the doc calls him and everybody medical exits the room, the head "nun" jumps astraddle the guy, beating the hell out of the body and jabbering in tongues, while the other four "nuns" wail and chant around the body in some unknown language. Or jibberish.
I thought when they requested his internal organs, it was a nice touch. We didn't give them to them. Don't know what the funeral home did...
wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 15:24 last edited by@Jolly said in Remains to be seen….:
the head "nun" jumps astraddle the guy beating the hell out of the body and jabbering in tongues
Oddly enough, that's how I want to go...
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@Jolly said in Remains to be seen….:
the head "nun" jumps astraddle the guy beating the hell out of the body and jabbering in tongues
Oddly enough, that's how I want to go...
wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 15:27 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Remains to be seen….:
@Jolly said in Remains to be seen….:
the head "nun" jumps astraddle the guy beating the hell out of the body and jabbering in tongues
Oddly enough, that's how I want to go...
Leave a note for Jane.
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 15:31 last edited by
The 'head nun'. Huh. Here I always thought it was a nurse.
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 15:34 last edited by
People are strange.
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 15:34 last edited by Doctor Phibes 7 Aug 2022, 15:34
Maybe she was a nurse with a bad habit...
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 16:24 last edited by
It needs music
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 16:51 last edited by
If you use a coffin to view the remains at a funeral home, in many (if not most) states it is illegal to re-use that coffin at the funeral home for the next deceased.
Some enterprising individuals will buy those, decontaminate them, reconfigure and reline them, then sell them as couches, chairs, etc.
Google up "coffin couches".
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Cult of some kind, I'm guessing. Y'all live in too normal of a world.
You ain't lived until you see a guy get coded, surrounded by five women dressed as nuns (that ain't) that we had to shush away, and after the doc calls him and everybody medical exits the room, the head "nun" jumps astraddle the guy, beating the hell out of the body and jabbering in tongues, while the other four "nuns" wail and chant around the body in some unknown language. Or jibberish.
I thought when they requested his internal organs, it was a nice touch. We didn't give them to them. Don't know what the funeral home did...
wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 17:01 last edited by@Jolly said in Remains to be seen….:
I thought when they requested his internal organs, it was a nice touch. We didn't give them to them. Don't know what the funeral home did...
Please tell me you said “Y’all don’t look like transplant surgeons, can you show me your UNOS credentials?”
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 17:25 last edited by
When I go, I want a New Orleans send off
Link to videoThe Brad
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wrote on 8 Jul 2022, 17:27 last edited by
I kind of like the idea of being sheparded off by those guys somebody posted a few months ago, the pallbearers who danced while holding the coffin.
Now, I wonder what music I want them to dance to . . . ?
