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xoxoxoBruce · 07-21-2005, 07:27 PM

Precog dreams lead to choices that make them self fulfilling.

Queen of the Ryche · 07-22-2005, 12:32 PM

I call that "Vuja De".

Hobbs · 07-22-2005, 01:23 PM

I went to my grampa's funeral when I was 10. Scared the living crap out of me! I would never put a child through that unless they were older and fully briefed on what to expect. I for one don't like funerals. Give me a memorail service, celebration, fiesta! whatever. Show pictures, run videos, Power Point presentation. I do not intend to make an appearance. It may be rude but who cares...I'm dead. Sue me!

Queen of the Ryche · 07-22-2005, 02:36 PM

In January I helped plan the memorial service for one of my best friends (suicide at 32). Planning the service and putting together the power point presentation were very helpful in the healing process. The actual service felt like it was staged for a bunch of people who hardly knew him, except when my friend the piper played Amazing Grace at the end. Couldn't get the projector to work during the service so we set it up on a loop at the wake which was way better - people could look and remember fondly at their leisure. The best was when an intimate group took the boat out and scattered his ashes at sea. Total closure.
Great. Now I got tears in my keyboard. I miss him.

lookout123 · 07-22-2005, 03:05 PM

funerals make me a little nervous because i know someone will make what they consider to be an important gesture and it will go horribly horribly wrong. flubbed eulogy is one thing. one of the best friends who agreed to play a song on his guitar finishing up by repeatedly smashing the guitar over the coffin is another. yes it really happened. out in Hobbs' neck of the woods.

wolf · 07-23-2005, 02:46 AM

I have both attended and officiated at funerals. The nicest one I went to was a Quaker Meeting for Memorial. I also thought the Conservative Jewish funeral I went to was well presented.

Catholic funerals are very difficult, IMHO.

cowhead · 07-23-2005, 02:57 AM

good luck. I'll tell you a story sometime.

07-21-2005, 07:27 PM	#31
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Precog dreams lead to choices that make them self fulfilling. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-22-2005, 12:32 PM	#32
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	I call that "Vuja De". __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

07-22-2005, 01:23 PM	#33
Hobbs Professor for the school of ass-clownery Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Surprise! Posts: 404	I went to my grampa's funeral when I was 10. Scared the living crap out of me! I would never put a child through that unless they were older and fully briefed on what to expect. I for one don't like funerals. Give me a memorail service, celebration, fiesta! whatever. Show pictures, run videos, Power Point presentation. I do not intend to make an appearance. It may be rude but who cares...I'm dead. Sue me! __________________ That's it! Send in the chimps!

07-22-2005, 02:36 PM	#34
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	In January I helped plan the memorial service for one of my best friends (suicide at 32). Planning the service and putting together the power point presentation were very helpful in the healing process. The actual service felt like it was staged for a bunch of people who hardly knew him, except when my friend the piper played Amazing Grace at the end. Couldn't get the projector to work during the service so we set it up on a loop at the wake which was way better - people could look and remember fondly at their leisure. The best was when an intimate group took the boat out and scattered his ashes at sea. Total closure. Great. Now I got tears in my keyboard. I miss him. __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

07-22-2005, 03:05 PM	#35
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	funerals make me a little nervous because i know someone will make what they consider to be an important gesture and it will go horribly horribly wrong. flubbed eulogy is one thing. one of the best friends who agreed to play a song on his guitar finishing up by repeatedly smashing the guitar over the coffin is another. yes it really happened. out in Hobbs' neck of the woods. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

07-23-2005, 02:46 AM	#36
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I have both attended and officiated at funerals. The nicest one I went to was a Quaker Meeting for Memorial. I also thought the Conservative Jewish funeral I went to was well presented. Catholic funerals are very difficult, IMHO. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-23-2005, 02:57 AM	#37
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	good luck. I'll tell you a story sometime. __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire. Last edited by cowhead; 07-23-2005 at 03:03 AM.

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