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| floop |
Posted - 03/26/2004 : 10:10:17
not the most upbeat topic, but i'm curious what people think. personally, i feel that wasting space in a mortuary is pointelss. i'll opt for cremation and request that my ashes be spread somewhere that was meaningful to me. ideally, i'd like my ashes to be scattered in Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, but that might be hard to arrange.
anyway, what about you guys? |
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| kathryn |
Posted - 05/28/2005 : 10:54:07
That's great! Hilarious.
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| mosleyk |
Posted - 05/28/2005 : 10:49:40
There really isn't to much to the story. The rest of the evening I just couldn't get over how we were having a normal conversation and there is this body being burned in the next room. I do remember her bring out some food from the kitchen and asked her "are these left overs?"(gross I know..I am sorry). Then all of a sudden I just started laughing and couldn't stop, because it was all so fucking wierd! |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/28/2005 : 10:38:31
More, please! This is great!
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| mosleyk |
Posted - 05/28/2005 : 10:21:35
You have no idea how close it was to that. Like I said....surreal! |
| floop |
Posted - 05/28/2005 : 10:20:28
quote:
Originally posted by mosleyk
I will never forget one of the first times I went to visit her at her new crib (which was actually quite nice). It was evening and we were talking and hanging out in their living room. It was nice out, and as we were sitting there I heard what I thought was the heating furnace kick on. I asked her why she had the heat on and she told me quite deadpan..."oh, that isn't the heater....they are burning a body" I really didn't know what to think. Worse part was that the room where the body was being burned was literally right next to the living room. It was so surreal.
wow. did you ever have dinner over there? that's like straight out of a Monty Python sketch..
"oh, it's not the heat. they're just burning another body.. can you pass the mashed potatos please?" |
| mosleyk |
Posted - 05/28/2005 : 10:11:15
Floop you totally beat me to the punch here. I was thinking of starting this thread after the subject came up on the Simon thread.
Many of my relatives chose to be cremated and then buried in one of several family plots. I thought that was kinda cool. My grandfather (who died just two years ago at the age of 96 chose this). I remember a few years before he died he made all of his own arrangements (which he wanted to do, but at the same time hated having to do). I asked him why he would want to be cremated and then buried. He said he thoughts coffins were a waste of money and he didn't like the thought of his body rotting in the ground). It made sense to me.
My husband and I visited a cemetary where my great-grandparents are on Thursday evening. We started to discuss what we would want if we died. You know.....just couldn't decided. All we did decide is that we wanted to be placed (whether ashes spread somewhere, buried, etc.) next to each other, or in the case of spreading ashes....in the same location.
Now....onto my cremation story that I didn't want to tell off topic on Simon's thread.
So my best friend and her husband were actually living at a funeral home for a few years. They were finishing up their master degrees...didn't have much money and the funeral home had an apartment hooked to it. They were able to live there rent free and they helped with some grounds keeping and funeral services on the weekend.....oh...and on rare occassions went out to help pick up bodies.
I will never forget one of the first times I went to visit her at her new crib (which was actually quite nice). It was evening and we were talking and hanging out in their living room. It was nice out, and as we were sitting there I heard what I thought was the heating furnace kick on. I asked her why she had the heat on and she told me quite deadpan..."oh, that isn't the heater....they are burning a body" I really didn't know what to think. Worse part was that the room where the body was being burned was literally right next to the living room. It was so surreal. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/28/2005 : 03:36:33
Easy now, darwin, easy.
(No, it was not. This was my plastic-surgery junkie
serial-affair married-woman editor friend.)
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| floop |
Posted - 05/28/2005 : 00:49:53
yeah, i've heard that it can "leak" and go into your blood stream and fuck shit up. not cool |
| BLT |
Posted - 05/27/2005 : 21:56:31
quote:
Originally posted by floop
most of the mercury pollution is from peoples fillings.. crazy shit.
Isn't it amazing that people allow mercury to be put in their mouth? It is so toxic that you are not supposed to make skin contact with it, yet people have it permanently implanted into their mouths. Not me, thanks. |
| darwin |
Posted - 05/27/2005 : 21:12:47
Is she the daughter of a famous film director and now resides in Hawaii? |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/27/2005 : 18:38:20
Well, not to go off topic, but I held my friend's hand
while she had her stitches removed after she
vavavoomed from an A cup to a C and let me tell you, yow!
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| floop |
Posted - 05/27/2005 : 18:33:48
most of the mercury pollution is from peoples fillings.. crazy shit.
i also heard (this was a nice after dinner conversation) that women who have breast implants have to have them taken out before.. el flamo. otherwise they explode |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/27/2005 : 18:30:17
No but I can ask my local crematorium The Eternal Flame.
None of the Bangles work there, sadly.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| floop |
Posted - 05/27/2005 : 16:46:09
[i didn't want to continue the cremation discussion in Mr. Larbalestier's thread.. ]
i always assumed that cremation was the more environmentally sound practice, but recently i've heard about how a huge amount of mercury (and other chemicals) pollutes the environment because of it.
anyone got some scientific statistics? |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 04/11/2004 : 07:28:12
I would definately be cremated. No question about it.
Boys go to Jupiter, Get more stupider,
Girls go to Mars, Become rock stars
Wanna fuck and fight in the basement? |
| slaveish |
Posted - 04/10/2004 : 21:32:34
Pine Box.
I'm going to guess that most of the people on this forum are too young to have thought of writing a will. In that case, this thread is technically serving as the written wishes of those who have participated. Better watch what you wish for.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 04/05/2004 : 15:56:25
Great!!! Where do I sign???
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 04/05/2004 : 15:51:51
This is quite unsettling
http://secure1.m57media.com/clients/p2c/orderpages/NewCanoe/BodyBucks101_v2/?caCode=bb1&caid=1212&cid1=0&cid2=88&cid3=0&cid4=&sid=621873630&stID=20 |
| rollnrocker |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 18:18:15
I truly hope that you are bullsh*ting. Bit twisted dont you think.. |
| WolfManMikeLonely |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 18:10:33
To quote David Cross "I don't care either way really because... I can't."
"Hey fuck you if you don't like it."
-Johnny Thunders
www.transposed.net |
| guy_nolan |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 18:09:35
I wan't to be cremated and sprinkled into some really strong skunk for my friends to smoke. Anyone ever seen that episode of Star Trek TNG where they fnid three people who were cryogenically frozen in the nineties. That'd be so cool waking up next to Picard and Data etc. with a new universe to explore. I think I'd go straight to the hollodeck and load the Jenni Aniston program, but seriously where would the 'love spray' end up seeing as your just banging light? What was the topic again?
For ten thousand years he slept, his mind feeding on the nightmares of the weak. Now he has awakened. As the night turned crimson, the fire-blade shattered and his power died. Then, the slaughter began... |
| SpudBoy |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 17:42:01
Upon reading this thread further and reflecting on the implications, I think a neural download would be appropriate prior to letting the carrion birds have at my corpse, so I could later *be* an alcoholic criminal robot.
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| VoVat |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 12:28:41
It's a little-known fact that Brad Roberts actually died back in 1990.
Join the Culf of Buttoms / Correctly spelled cults are so passé. |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 05:21:57
I'm sure I've heard of that kinda thing before....when I go, I wanna become a crash test dummy! Not a member of the band of the same name of course, although being dead would be a suitable condition in that case....
CARL.
 "-JOIN ME!!"
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| benji |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 05:05:28
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
Kinda makes you think twice before donating your body... People have all these great ideas about helping cure diseases, but it doesn't always turn out this way.
no way - this is an awesome way to use dead people....if i knew i'd be used in such experiments, i'd definitely sign up.
kinda like that body worlds exhibition....now that was amazing stuff.
"I joined the Cult of Frank / I think that man deserves a DB!" |
| vilainde |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 04:48:09
quote:
Originally posted by TheCroutonFuton
I'm going to donate my body to science...Normally, I wouldn't even consider it..but since Lyme disease is still so mysterious I'm sure it will have the potential to help make some discoveries...who knows.
I have this friend of mine, who works for some company that does crash tests for Renault and Peugeot. Well it turns out they don't always use crash test dummies... That's right, they use the body of people who donate theirs to science, fill their veins with black ink, place them in a car and BLAM! smash them into a brick wall. Kinda makes you think twice before donating your body... People have all these great ideas about helping cure diseases, but it doesn't always turn out this way.
Denis
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| benji |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 04:17:10
i think i'd go with being cremated.
again scattered somewhere meaningful.....which at the moment would be probably on our dairy farm.
my fathers ashes were scattered there (though i didn't know that for 9 years) so it would seem fitting to me.
"I joined the Cult of Frank / I think that man deserves a DB!" |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 03:06:24
I wanna be hermatically sealed...'for freshness!'
CARL.
"-JOIN ME!!"
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| VoVat |
Posted - 03/29/2004 : 12:51:42
I'm going to be frozen for 1000 years, so I can wake up in the 31st century and have wacky space adventures with a cyclops woman and an alcoholic criminal robot.
Join the Culf of Buttoms / Correctly spelled cults are so passé. |
| Mroocore |
Posted - 03/29/2004 : 07:28:38
quote:
Originally posted by remig
I want to be frozen, so later they'll put me in microwave, clone me, and transplant my brain to my brand new body.
Nobody is gonna die no more.
a body w/o a belly button. someday, we all will be clones.
 PENGU LIES |
| remig |
Posted - 03/29/2004 : 01:20:49
I want to be frozen, so later they'll put me in microwave, clone me, and transplant my brain to my brand new body.
Nobody is gonna die no more. |
| interloper |
Posted - 03/28/2004 : 18:52:25
I want to be cremated as well. But I'd rather my ashes be dumped on the nearest coffee shop patio on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
Hand held shower nozzles are the demon enemy of the patriarch and should be destroyed. |
| floop |
Posted - 03/28/2004 : 18:36:20
quote:
Originally posted by darwin
Floop, I think having your ashes spread in the Horseshoe would be pretty easy. Have each friend take in a cup full, and then they can knock them over on the blackjack tables. Or, they rig something up in their pant legs like they did in The Great Escape to get rid of the dirt.
i like that idea. they may as well scatter some in the ashtrays while they're at it. not only for the ironic value, but the sentimental value as well. that way when my friends go gamble and smoke there, it'll be like paying their respects.
jediroller, i think your idea takes the cake though.. i like it. |
| Crispy Water |
Posted - 03/28/2004 : 17:19:46
This might be selfish, but I've got a bank account into which I make small weekly deposits. By the time I'm ready to die, I hope I'll have enough money to pay off a pilot to fly me over a Siberian forest or some such unpopulated spot and drop me out while I'm asleep. Then maybe in a few thousand years I'll be discovered and people will think there was a whole race of forest people that managed to slip under the world's collective radar way back when. It'll be a media circus...
Nothing is ever something. |
| TheCroutonFuton |
Posted - 03/27/2004 : 22:31:02
I'm going to donate my body to science...Normally, I wouldn't even consider it..but since Lyme disease is still so mysterious I'm sure it will have the potential to help make some discoveries...who knows.
 "Join the Cult of Gunn / And Then You'll Be Destined to be a Rock and Roll Star of Epical Proportions!" |
