• TautTwat@lemm.ee
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    My dream is to die with absolutely nothing but massive bank debt. I have no living relatives, so there is no one to get the money from. I mean, “Hello Mr. Twat you have terminal cancer” next stop is the bank to take out the biggest loan my excellent credit will let me get. Tom Selleck the house go to Vegas bet it all on black until it’s gone return home and burn the house down around me fuck the bank…a boy can dream lol

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    Those targeted ads aren’t messing around

    Edit: Personally I’ve already got an urn picked out for me. A probably too large coffee can of my favorite coffee brand.

    I’d prefer it not get used for my ashes for at least a few more decades though.

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    Graveyards are a waste of space & good land. Land is for the living. Cremation is the way; it is clean, responsible, & considerate.

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      . I’d rather be harvested for any useful organs if I have any left healthy enough to save someone, then the rest of me thrown in some kind of corpse compost or bio reactor or something.

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        Yes, but the whole thing isn’t about you but about the people you leave behind. It helps me a lot that I can visit the place where I buried my father’s ashes and tell him about what is going on and how live is currently. I miss him a lot.

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          For every person like you there may be a person like me that couldn’t care less to visit a grave. I can remember my fallen ones from anywhere.

          Don’t want to sound callous but if you’re dead you’re dead to me too, like it’s a part of life. Just accept it and move on. I’m gonna die one day whoop whoop.

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            Maybe as a compromise, then, the people who care can do the thing and the people who don’t don’t have to?

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              Sure, but if the argument is that graveyards take to much valuable space that could be used to house living humans.

              Perhaps people should keep ashes in their own gardens etc and you can alsways go and do the things you do.

              To be transparent, this isn’t something I have given a lot of thought to until I saw this thread.

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                Suppose so, I feel like they’re pretty low on the list of land we could reclaim tho. Would rather go after golf courses first for example

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                  Oh I agree that golf courses would be a priority. The same for office blocks where people can work from home.

                  I’m with mark twain on golf, it’s a good walk spoiled 😂

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        If you don’t have any useful organs, I imagine you can still be used as a cadaver for medical students.

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        If they didn’t pump the bodies full of toxic chemicals and store them indefinitely in a piece of furniture, maybe.

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    Casket+ includes a lid! Only $59.99/hour (surge pricing if used between hours of 10pm and 8am)

    Don’t you love your dead relatives? Or are you cheap?

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    I don’t care what happens to my corpse, because I’ll be dead then. Never understood, why people still care nowadays, religion I guess.

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      Ritual and ceremony are deeply important aspects of the human experience. What cultures do with their dead is way, way up there with foodways and adornment when it comes to cultural significance.

      The increasingly common view in the West that elaborate death rites are unimportant is really new when compared to the rest of human history. It’s probably a postmodern thing? If I’m right about that, that would mean the less reverential attitude towards traditional deatg ceremony is like 110ish years old.

      Compared to the 200,000-300,000 years Homo Sapiens have been around (or 45,000 years ago if we only want to discuss the length of time that Northern European-style deathways have most likely been practiced), 100 years isn’t a lot to change that cultural inertia.

      Sorry, I know this is a Wendy’s. Just a frosty, thanks.

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        You can have the ceremony without being ripped off for thousands of dollars on a box nobody will ever see again

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        Why the fuck have you been downvoted, that’s just a reasonable comment.

        May I also point out, your funeral isn’t for you. You might not care what happens to your body but your close ones do. A funeral is a place for them to find closure, to grief and mourn your loss. The mere fact that people who cannot retrieve their lost one’s body feel awfully about it and still tend to create empty graves should show how much this is a very old desire of importance. The way we perform these death rituals can change and maybe it is not about how a body is being get rid off per se, and surely we could change this. That we as a species are aware of what death means and have found ways to cope with it (i.e. rituals as a coping way to deal with the knowledge) is incredible.

        Whenever people say something along these lines of “just throw me in the trash” it feels to me like they didn’t get that point. It’s not about you. It’s about everyone else.

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    My grandpa handmade his coffin with some really nice walnut. Quilted the inside I believe. He’s still kicking, so it gets used as a prop at Halloween

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    Costco sells caskets. Seriously. Order one online on the cheap.

    Best part? They have multiple (positive) reviews.

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        You get to keep them before you die. I’m assuming people have em in their garage and lay in them to test them out.