Saw a funaral possession today

[GiaCat]

You know when there is first the hearse, then all the cars that follow with the little flags on them? I saw one today with just one car following. Kinda sad.

 

[dolf]

Funeral possession sounds like the next horror movie hit.

 

[dolf]

I'm assuming autocorrect stole your procession.

 

[Debbie]

When I die I'm donating my body to science and whatever bits are left over are to be used as fertilizer.


https://www.greenprophet.com/2015/03/organic-burial-pods-grow-live-trees-from-dead-people/


I would love to leave my corpse to the Body farm but the waiting list is long and not possible from New Zealand without costing the whanau (family) an arm, leg and a torso.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I saw a procession recently where every vehicle was a truck of some sort (pickup, tow truck, dump truck, etc.)

 

[pollynova]

That is sad.

What happens if you die and you don't have any family or anything to like give you a funeral and stuff? What happens to your body?

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[ishtat]

I would like to donate, but if you do that in OZ you have to die on a weekday cuz they don't want stinky corpses on Monday.

Failing that I would vote for the Zoroastrian rite and have my corpse exposed for vultures to feed on.

OOOh look 3000 posts mind you it took 13 years.

 

[Liar]

You know when there is first the hearse, then all the cars that follow with the little flags on them? I saw one today with just one car following. Kinda sad.

Likely:
Old guy/gal, so most old friends of their generation died before them.
Never had kids, so no close family left.
Lived no big, impactful life, so had a close circle of good friends, but few looser aquaintances that would feel obliged to show up.

That could be how I go, since I don't expect to spawn. If I'm lucky to live that long, that is.

 

[Parminderjeet]

You know when there is first the hearse, then all the cars that follow with the little flags on them? I saw one today with just one car following. Kinda sad.

Who needs the DOE?

*chuckle*

 

[smokeypearl]

Likely:
Old guy/gal, so most old friends of their generation died before them.
Never had kids, so no close family left.
Lived no big, impactful life, so had a close circle of good friends, but few looser aquaintances that would feel obliged to show up.

That could be how I go, since I don't expect to spawn. If I'm lucky to live that long, that is.

I once looked after a 98 year old woman who told me that her friends and lovers were dead and she wished she was too. She had one son who didn't visit her as often as she would have liked.
I don't really want a big, sad funeral. I wish I could throw a goodbye party and see everyone smiling and laughing as I wave goodbye. I want there to be balloons too.

 

[oggbashan]

That is sad.

What happens if you die and you don't have any family or anything to like give you a funeral and stuff? What happens to your body?

In the UK for hundreds of years you had a pauper's funeral arranged by the local authority (City Hall). It still happens but now it tends to be a cremation not an interment. The local authority also arrange funerals for those who die with no remaining relations. If the deceased's estate can afford it the funeral costs are deducted before the estate is distributed according to the deceased's will.

Up to the mid 20th Century the pauper's coffin was reusable. One of our local museums has the cast iron coffin and hand cart that was used to take the pauper's body to the cemetery. The pauper was put in an unmarked grave, wrapped in a shroud. The coffin was washed out to be used for the next pauper.

Now the pauper's funeral is usually attended by the Social Worker who had to arrange the funeral, sometimes on her own except for the funeral director's staff. At one local cremation facility there is a rota of community volunteers who will turn up in small numbers for a lonely funeral, usually bringing flowers.

At one local pauper's funeral a few years ago the Social Worker was surprised to find a full chapel. The local newspaper had put a small article about the deceased woman's life of community service. A social media campaign started to make sure she wasn't buried without attendants. Several people made statements about how the deceased had helped people in the town until she became frail and reclusive.

 

[KingOrfeo]

That is sad.

What happens if you die and you don't have any family or anything to like give you a funeral and stuff? What happens to your body?

I'll take it off your hands, no questions asked.

 

[OldJourno]

I saw Funanal Possession with Linda Bare.

 

[Comshaw]

Unless something drastic happens, it won't be long and there will be no burials or cremations. The days of Soylent Green are not too far ahead.

I read a post not to long ago that said if every man, woman and child on earth were put in Alaska, every one of them would have 2500 square feet of space. The post was trying to convince the reader that there is still plenty of room in the world and the human population isn't a concern. The question that came to mind is who gets the plots on top of Denali, in the swamps and muskegs and out on the frozen tundra? The point being: there is still plenty of space left, but not much of that is livable space. All you have to do is look at India and where the populations are concentrated. Before I retired I worked with a man who immigrated from Mumbai India. He found our down town during peak business hours to be desolate compared to his home city. He told me it felt creepy at night because it was so quiet. Yea, I think your descendants will get use to the taste of Soylent Green. Is that you in this biscuit papa?

And so it is and so it goes.


U.S./World population clock


Comshaw

 

[pollynova]

In the UK for hundreds of years you had a pauper's funeral arranged by the local authority (City Hall). It still happens but now it tends to be a cremation not an interment. The local authority also arrange funerals for those who die with no remaining relations. If the deceased's estate can afford it the funeral costs are deducted before the estate is distributed according to the deceased's will.

Up to the mid 20th Century the pauper's coffin was reusable. One of our local museums has the cast iron coffin and hand cart that was used to take the pauper's body to the cemetery. The pauper was put in an unmarked grave, wrapped in a shroud. The coffin was washed out to be used for the next pauper.

Now the pauper's funeral is usually attended by the Social Worker who had to arrange the funeral, sometimes on her own except for the funeral director's staff. At one local cremation facility there is a rota of community volunteers who will turn up in small numbers for a lonely funeral, usually bringing flowers.

At one local pauper's funeral a few years ago the Social Worker was surprised to find a full chapel. The local newspaper had put a small article about the deceased woman's life of community service. A social media campaign started to make sure she wasn't buried without attendants. Several people made statements about how the deceased had helped people in the town until she became frail and reclusive.

One of the works of mercy is to bury the dead. All those people who went to her funeral helped do that. That's very sweet.

 

[armada67]

You know when there is first the hearse, then all the cars that follow with the little flags on them? I saw one today with just one car following. Kinda sad.

Maybe that person , out lived all of his relatives ?

 

[Ishmael]

Maybe there was a GoPro in that one car live streaming on FB. There could have been 'virtually' thousands in that procession. The wave of the future?

Ishmael

 

[Adjudicator]

Were you on a horror set?

 

[EternalFantasies]

Really? This is fun thread?

 

[GiaCat]

That is sad.

What happens if you die and you don't have any family or anything to like give you a funeral and stuff? What happens to your body?

I wonder about that. I have heard of people who are not found for months because they die in their apartments.

 

[OldJourno]

I wonder about that. I have heard of people who are not found for months because they die in their apartments.

As opposed to their chalets in the Swiss Alps?

 

[magicalmoments]

I'm waiting for a funeral re-possession. That would be fun to watch.

 

[Tigersman]

I told my wife to cremate me then throw the urn into the nearest trash container.

 

[cfuhrer]

Maybe there was a GoPro in that one car live streaming on FB. There could have been 'virtually' thousands in that procession. The wave of the future?

Ishmael

Oh horrors!
Don't even joke.