Trash Culture. My tipping point.
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floweringquince
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Um, apparently listening to NPR & the BBC isn't that much different than living in a cave:
Is Anna Nicole Smith dead?
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Is Anna Nicole Smith dead?
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Huckleman2000
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carrie-on said:
Yes they were! They only just buried him this week or last, I think.
He even had several costume changes - one for each funeral location.
The one that really started getting ripe was the pope - I don't think they even embalm them (the resurrection of the dead is part of the Creed). They have to sew his lips shut, or the air from his insides would really get rank.
slyc_willie
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SlickTony said:
Imagine being the lucky guy who has to do that . . . .
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McKenna said:
The new measure of popularity will be the length of the court battle over your remains. No takers? It's a good thing you're dead, because your career is over.
I want cremation. I don't care how many people at open-casket funeral services hover over the departed commenting on how 'natural' he or she looks. They're lying.
Does anyone know whether cremated bodies have to be embalmed first? There's something about embalming that seems like such a horrible violation of privacy. I know the dead person doesn't care, but when I'm not-quite-dead I'd hate to know that a few hours later, strangers will be doing grotesque things to what used to be my body. Not to mention what they might do with my cute shoes.
EDITED TO ADD: I'm not a big Jim Carrey fan, but I laughed at his comments on the Today Show. He was promoting his movie, "The Number 23," and suddenly announced that he's the father of Anna Nicole's baby. He's going to rename the baby, "Meal Ticket." He added, "I don't want custody of the body, except for the wish-bone."
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SimonBrooke
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shereads said:
Is it beginning to discolour?
SlickTony
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shereads said:
Hm. I wonder how in the world he did that. Very few people happen to die smiling, after all. I was disappointed in the job done on my late FIL. He had a rather nice mouth, kind of tender and sensual-looking, the kind that if you weren't kin to him, you'd assume he was a good kisser. When I saw him in his coffin he had this tight-lipped expression you'd expect to find in a portrait of one of your dourest Puritan ancestors--something I'd never seen in life.
The feature seems to have passed down to my son, which is one of the reasons we can hardly go anywhere with him without girls--some of whom are doubtless old enough to drink--checking him out.
oggbashan
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Bodies on view
The tradition for funerals varies across countries and within countries.
Locally, very few people view the body of a relation. Embalming is unnecessary if the body is kept in a freezing environment until burial/cremation.
My in-laws had "Green Burials". The embalming process would have made them ineligible because of the chemicals used.
Og
The tradition for funerals varies across countries and within countries.
Locally, very few people view the body of a relation. Embalming is unnecessary if the body is kept in a freezing environment until burial/cremation.
My in-laws had "Green Burials". The embalming process would have made them ineligible because of the chemicals used.
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CNN webpage currently has a Developign Story headline "Lawyer nearly faints at the hearing on the fate of Anna Nicole Smith's body. Witness offers protein bar."
CNN webpage currently has a Developign Story headline "Lawyer nearly faints at the hearing on the fate of Anna Nicole Smith's body. Witness offers protein bar."
SlickTony
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Can someone explain to me how our spiritual ancestors supposedly trekked a hell of a long way into the desert and wandered around for 40 years and went to ridiculous lengths, even to the extent of not having any cats, to get away from the influence of the Egyptians and their wasteful and unecological burial practices still rule in our culture to this day?
Any other means--sea burial, sky-burial, cremation, green burial--makes more sense. Even those who literally belief that on the day of the Last Trump everyone's corporeal bodies will be raised again--if God could form the whole universe out of nothing, can he not call together the chemical components out of which their bodies were made?
Any other means--sea burial, sky-burial, cremation, green burial--makes more sense. Even those who literally belief that on the day of the Last Trump everyone's corporeal bodies will be raised again--if God could form the whole universe out of nothing, can he not call together the chemical components out of which their bodies were made?
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SlickTony said:
None of that matters now. What matters is that Anna Nicole's burial site has been determined. I didn't know how much it mattered until I was paying for my purchase at the supermarket today and was asked by the cashier - a stranger, "Have they decided anything about Anna Nicole? That poor woman, after all she's been through..."
I felt gratified to be able to tell her that the burial issue has been settled.
"Thank heaven," she said. "I hope that mamma of hers don't get her hands on the baby. I think the dark-haired man, the lawyer, is the one who ought to get the baby."
