Remains to be seen….

[Mik]

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.

[Doctor Phibes]

@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...

[Jolly]

@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.

[Mik]

The 'head nun'. Huh. Here I always thought it was a nurse.

[mark]

People are strange.

[Doctor Phibes]

Maybe she was a nurse with a bad habit...

[Copper]

It needs music

Link to video

[Jolly]

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".

[jon-nyc]

@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?”

[LuFins Dad]

When I go, I want a New Orleans send off

Link to video

[Catseye3]

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 . . . ?

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Remains to be seen….:

When I go, I want a New Orleans send off

If these guys aren't available...

I want the Brahms Requiem send off - live of course.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Remains to be seen….:

@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?”

Would be LOPA down here, and that's above my pay grade....

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in Remains to be seen….:

When I go, I want a New Orleans send off

Link to video

They fly.

[Catseye3]

@George-K said in Remains to be seen….:

I want the Brahms Requiem send off

Not me. I want something like 'Thriller' or "Stayin Alive' or 'Dancing Queen' or 'Jump' or 'Money for Nothing' or . . . gads, there are so many great choices.

Guess I can't die.

[Doctor Phibes]

Link to video

or how about....

Link to video

[Jolly]

It is appointed unto man once to die and then The Judgement.

[Renauda]

@Jolly

I’m sure there plenty of tunes out there for that one too.

[Larry]

When you have a fat black woman with yellow hair who is suffering from dwarfism making the style statements, who are we to question her taste......

[Larry]

@Mik said in Remains to be seen….:

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.

I used to say "bury me head first up to my waist and use the crack of my ass for a bicycle stand" but the closer that day comes the less I am committed to the view.....