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    Wayward ApologyMelissa Cronin
    5/15/16 12:17pm

    Nope, this gets zero feels from me, I think the bigger question is why we give so much defence and concern to what is really rotting meat, the pine boxes were a waste of money and time.

    The funeral industry is a giant scam, preying on short term grief to make outrageous profit with no long term practical or emotional value. Nope, rotting in a pine box instead of a metal casket or being put into a furnace or feed to lions should have no more or less symbolic value or dignity because as a society we have so many hang-ups about death.

    I’ve made it very clear to my mother that should I pass before her that she is to donate me to science or cremate me in the cheapest way possible and flush my down the toilet for all I care, as little money and concern should be used disposing of my corpse as possible, remember me for being me, not what a pain in the ass it was to get rid of my corpse.

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      HarlotOScaraWayward Apology
      5/15/16 12:31pm

      Because not everyone feels the same way about the issue as you do. There is a lot of “I” and “me” in there, but you have to realize that it does help some people. Not everything is about you.

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      ForTheLoveofGlobWayward Apology
      5/15/16 12:33pm

      Pretty much the same for me. I am to be donated to a corpse farm or whatever other purpose advances the knowledge and well-being of my species.

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    prancogMelissa Cronin
    5/15/16 12:00pm

    honest question: why does anyone care what happens to bodies at all? Why show respect to something that doesn’t care? I recently hung out in a graveyard with some friends a few weekends ago and was noticing how most pre 1920s graves have already faded, so why even waste money with an attempt to prove some sort of legacy?

    I think I might have a lack of understanding of culture here but I can never figure this out.

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      ThatFatScatCat fucking loves muddy puddlesprancog
      5/15/16 12:07pm

      We had to bury my grandfather a couple years ago. I remember thinking “Why can’t we just chuck him off a cliff? Burying him makes zero sense.”

      /s

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      RaiderDuckprancog
      5/15/16 12:36pm

      People have been conditioned to think you’re somehow shaming your dead relatives if you don’t spend tons of money on expensive coffins and headstones, none of which the dead person is around to appreciate.

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    Jerry-NetherlandMelissa Cronin
    5/15/16 12:58pm

    See “The Loved One”, a brilliant satire on the American obsession with - and capitalization of - funerals (from the novel by Evelyn Waugh with screenplay by Christopher Isherwood), Filled and lots of quirky cameos, and totally irreverent:

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      TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Jerry-Netherland
      5/15/16 1:29pm

      The more I think about that movie, the more it amazes me, campy as it is. I can’t believe it even saw release. Waugh’s novel is a more biting critique of decadent American capitalism than the Soviets ever managed.

      P.S. It’s also how I learned that Robert Morse was more than an old man shuffling around SterlingCooper in his socks.

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      Long Pig HelperJerry-Netherland
      5/16/16 11:21am

      “Mama’s little joyboy loves lobster, lobster.........."

      Love this film. All the stars. Very biting criticism, but with that uniquely sixties quirky feel.
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    RandyMagnumMelissa Cronin
    5/15/16 12:12pm

    I want to donate my body to a necrophile.

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      Malacoda, Recumbent on the Burning Sand.RandyMagnum
      5/15/16 12:44pm

      Great idea. Maybe Pornhub needs bodies for research.

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      RandyMagnumMalacoda, Recumbent on the Burning Sand.
      5/15/16 1:03pm

      It wouldn't hurt me, it might make someone (admittedly a really weird someone) happy, and getting laid even after death is pretty awesome. Better than being in a coffin.

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    I made a pigeonratMelissa Cronin
    5/15/16 12:17pm

    I have no problems being tossed in a pauper's grave, but I find many aspects of the funeral industry disgusting

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      Chamomiles DavisI made a pigeonrat
      5/15/16 12:45pm

      If it was good enough for Mozart, it's good enough for me!

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    Armageddon T. ThunderbirdMelissa Cronin
    5/15/16 12:04pm

    So where the fuck is all this Soylent Green I’ve been eating really coming from?

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      RaiderDuckMelissa Cronin
      5/15/16 12:08pm

      When you die, whatever made you the person you were is gone. What’s left is a decaying shell that serves no purpose. Burying some decaying remains in an expensive metal coffin with an elaborate gravestone only serves to waste money that could otherwise go to the people still living.

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