Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> Oh pshaw, on Tue 22 Aug 2006 02:58:59a, Michael "Dog3" Lonergan meant to
> say...
>
> > Damsel in dis Dress >
> > :
> >
> >>
> >> Does it really matter how the desserts were displayed? They were made
> >> or purchased with love.
> >>
> >> I usually ignore dead spread threads, feeling that they're
> >> inappropriate, but that's just me. And a few others. You got lucky
> >> this time. I can't sleep. <G>
> >>
> >> Carol
> >
> > Why do you feel the "dead spread threads" are inappropriate? I don't.
>
> Let's face it...you just like a GOOD PARTY! :-)
>
> Personally, I'm with Carol.


Funerals and the whole culture around them are extremely morbid. I will
NEVER attend another funeral (and that includes a parental unit)...

Everyone should be cremated, no idiotic preacher service, no laying out the
deceased like a piece of meat on a slab, no wakes, no visitation, no
awfulness of burying someone to rot in the ground, no crappy and
insensitive "dead spread". This stuff is not only disrespectful to the
memory of the deceased, it's disprespectful to put the survivors through all
this crappy contrived drama.

If someone wants to hold some kind of remembrance service or party, that's
fine with me, but NONE of this funeral "business"...

In fact several folks I know who've recently passed on didn't even want any
kind of party or service or whatever, they just wanted their loved ones to
remember them as they had been in life. That's fine with me...

If you really want to be put off by the whole funeral schtick read
_Wisconsin Death Trip_, if you are wavering on the subject this will
absolutely convince you of the utter ghoulishness of the standard American
death rites.

--
Best
Greg