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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:37 AM
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Is it morbid to think about your own funeral?
Lately I've been thinking of mine. What music I'd like played, that I want cremated and ashes scattered in a certain spot, stuff like that. Does anyone else do this, even occasionally? Am I the only one?
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:38 AM
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1. It's freaky
You ok dude?
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:39 AM
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3. well, yes I'm fine
I did lose a friend this week, and maybe that's what started all this. I can't think of any other reason. I've wanted to be cremated for some time though.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:41 AM
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7. aww man, how?
always tough to lose a friend, Ive been there, and I remember finding out.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:44 AM
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9. suicide.. on thursday night
I don't know much more than that.. no one knows why.. not that it would make a damn bit of difference
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:47 AM
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12. ouch dude
Tough why to go, Donny died in an ATV accident the summer we were going in to Sophomore year, we weren't close but we knew and were friendly. I had a good friend of his in a class last year and his ex girlfriend lives in my neighborhood. It was so sad, and I think of him always because he's buried across the school and the neighborhood he lived in, I walk through daily and his closest friends and family spraypainted DS in his memory, its been nearly 3 years and I often think of it, poor guy, I wish he could be graduating with us in the spring.
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bobweaver Donating Member (953 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:38 AM
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2. I want my funeral to be before I die, so I can sit there and listen to
what everyone has to say about me. Seriously. I want to sit up in the coffin and listen to the eulogies - if there's going to be any!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:40 AM
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4. All the time - I wanna have a big middle finger
Facing a section of people pre-selected to sit there. Then they'll get a little envelope with a note saying "Jeremy never really liked you."
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:40 AM
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5. I do occasionally.
I don't know if I'd care to even have a funeral. If someone can't see me till I'm laying in a box somewhere they can stay home.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:41 AM
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6. Yes, you're abnormal and should definitely seek help.
Brought to you by the American Psychiatric Association. You pay us to nod and take notes.

;-)

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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:42 AM
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8. I don't think it's weird
I did quite a bit of thinking about it over the past few months.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:45 AM
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10. I can understand you doing it too
with your situation. :hug: I don't dwell excessively on it, just think about how I'd like to go out.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:49 AM
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13. Whatever you do...
Please have them put a large poster of your sigline at the entry. :D :hug:
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:50 AM
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14. LOL.. silly n/t
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:46 AM
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11. I've been doing it more recently. It is not freaky. It is inevitable.
I'm already planning the music I want played, though I'm not sure how the attendees (all 3 of them) would respond.
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mairceridwen Donating Member (596 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:51 AM
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15. nah
I used to do that all the time

now, I've been so freaked out about my own mortality that my funeral is the last thing I can think og
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:52 AM
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16. It's abnormal if you DON'T think about it. What if no one shows up?
That would really suck.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:53 AM
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17. then I'd have to come back and haunt them
which could really be fun
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:54 AM
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18. hah but reincarnation would be fun too
I know what I would want to be reincarnated as :).
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:57 AM
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19. what?
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:59 AM
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20. oh umm
Ive always wondered what it would be like to be the opposite sex :D. Yes, typical hetero guy talk.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:00 AM
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22. ahhhh... I should have known you would be a pervert
tisk tisk tisk
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:04 AM
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24. oh come on don't tell me you didn't know
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:05 AM
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25. i wasn't thinking about it enough
I'm tired, mind not fully functioning
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:07 AM
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26. true dat
but yeah its pretty typical for that to happen at least once.
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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 12:59 AM
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21. How the hell are you going to know the difference?
Why waste your time thinking about crap like that? Even though I do, often.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:02 AM
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23. "why should I waste my beautiful mind on things like that"
or something like that.. a quote from Barbara Bush.. no reason, just because thats me
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:11 AM
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27. I'm taking the Zen route...
I told my wife that when I die I want to be cremated and have the ashes flushed down the toilet.

And yes, I'm completely serious.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:12 AM
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28. why even take them home?
let them blow out of the car on the drive home
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:16 AM
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30. I like the idea of clensing our city's plumbling system!
I figure all the alcohol in my body would be a good start. Heh...
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Shadowen Donating Member (742 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:15 AM
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29. Yes, it is.
But morbidity ROCKS! Keep it up!
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 01:21 AM
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31. I occasionally do, but not much.
Not like I'm going to get to enjoy it.

I would like everybody to have a good time, drink, do karaoke whatever. I don't want to be remembered with a grim procession.
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