writes:
>
>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


hey Greg

did you know that your name rhymes with "Wackery Wacko"?