tert in seattle wrote:

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"?
>


Is that a "Tusharism"...???

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--
Best
Greg