i will totally bookmark your sites when im at home :] i r at work.
you know, i had this idea that i got from listening to a City and Colour song. it's called "Body In A Box" and it's about watching this funeral procession going by on the highway and the kinds of things they are saying at this guy's funeral and what's happening and how people are feeling. and what he (Dallas Greene) hopes for when he dies. like, not wanting some big production, just that he wants to go peacefully. the part that gave me my idea (which i'll tell you in a minute) was the line where he goes "We celebrate the lives of the dead, its like a mans best party, it only happens when he dies". i was like hey, that's a good point. why do we only celebrate the lives of the people we love AFTER they're gone? why don't we have a party for the people we love while they're still here? like, on this saturday we're having a life celebration for (this friend) and i want some of you to write a little something about what this person means to you and things you admire about them and good memories you have of them. we'll have a big party and invite everyone, and then they'll know how much they mean to us!
it does seem to make little sense why we wait to do this until they're dead. there might even be less suicides if this was just a part of our culture or something.
so anyway, i don't think that's weird. i've thought about that kind of stuff. i've thought about writing down all of my internet passwords somewhere so that if i die, im not lost out there somewhere forever. everything else, i've not put much thought into i don't suppose. im pretty sure there are people out there, at least one (Kevin probably) who knows me well enough to put together a fairly happening funeral ;p like, my favourite songs. some cool pictures. like that.
you know, when Marci died, she knew she was going to die because she had terminal cancer. she actually DID get to plan her own funeral. i've always wondered about how that would make me feel. like TRULY knowing it had to be done.
you know, i had this idea that i got from listening to a City and Colour song. it's called "Body In A Box" and it's about watching this funeral procession going by on the highway and the kinds of things they are saying at this guy's funeral and what's happening and how people are feeling. and what he (Dallas Greene) hopes for when he dies. like, not wanting some big production, just that he wants to go peacefully. the part that gave me my idea (which i'll tell you in a minute) was the line where he goes "We celebrate the lives of the dead, its like a mans best party, it only happens when he dies". i was like hey, that's a good point. why do we only celebrate the lives of the people we love AFTER they're gone? why don't we have a party for the people we love while they're still here? like, on this saturday we're having a life celebration for (this friend) and i want some of you to write a little something about what this person means to you and things you admire about them and good memories you have of them. we'll have a big party and invite everyone, and then they'll know how much they mean to us!
it does seem to make little sense why we wait to do this until they're dead. there might even be less suicides if this was just a part of our culture or something.
so anyway, i don't think that's weird. i've thought about that kind of stuff. i've thought about writing down all of my internet passwords somewhere so that if i die, im not lost out there somewhere forever. everything else, i've not put much thought into i don't suppose. im pretty sure there are people out there, at least one (Kevin probably) who knows me well enough to put together a fairly happening funeral ;p like, my favourite songs. some cool pictures. like that.
you know, when Marci died, she knew she was going to die because she had terminal cancer. she actually DID get to plan her own funeral. i've always wondered about how that would make me feel. like TRULY knowing it had to be done.
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