Comments | lady_lisa: I am my parents' child (scary)

lady_lisa

I am my parents' child (scary)

Oct 28, 2004 08:48

You know, I swear to God I never thought it would happen, but it does happen. I am turning into my parents. It's inevitable I think ( Read more... )

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vixengrrl October 28 2004, 08:47:52 UTC

Ha ha ha that is hilarious! Yeah, it is totally gross and creepy and I would really rather be cremated and thrown away. How creepy to go to some graveyard where you have no memories with the loved one, and stand over their rotting body to try to be close to their soul. Ick.

Surely cremation is cheaper?

lady_lisa October 29 2004, 06:48:29 UTC

aHA! You would think cremation would be cheaper, wouldn't you? In fact it's about the same. And no less gross, let me tell you. Jesse saw a cremation in one of her paramedic classes, and there is so much oil, fat, and grease that is produced when you burn a human body, so they have to collect all that and carry it off, and then the "ashes" that they give you of your loved one is really just the dirt at the bottom that's left over, which was basically there before, because they don't exactly clean out the machine in between each cremation.

vixengrrl October 29 2004, 10:17:17 UTC

Yeah, I guess I really don't want someone attaching significance to my dead body, so I woulldn't care if the "ashes" left over were actually from me or not. That sucks that it's not cheaper, though.

icedragon136 October 28 2004, 09:36:01 UTC

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

the other rather grotesque option dancewithfrisbe October 28 2004, 21:15:35 UTC

The other option, which isn't near as clean as cremation is...donation. If someone can find some use for my body, I think it should be used. If they can cart away any tissue to help people, so be it...if they can use it to train medical personel on it, so be it. You can still put a shrine, I mean gravestone, up if you want. If you don't want a gravestone, would you prefer to be memorialized in some other way? A park? A garden? A skating rink? How about a economics library?

Re: the other rather grotesque option lady_lisa October 29 2004, 06:49:57 UTC

Oh wow, it's true this is no less gross, but what a good idea!! I think this is definitely what I'll do too, thanks for the great suggestion!!

Re: the other rather grotesque option vixengrrl October 29 2004, 10:16:09 UTC

Hey, yeah, I like that idea too. I think the main reason cremation seems less gross to me is that it's over and done with, and it doesn't involved my loved ones traisping throuhg some creepy graveyard where they've never been before, and certainly never were with me, in order to pay some sort of respects to my dead body, which will mean nothing. So yeah. Also, hopefully this would be much cheaper, cuz it's so stupid that someone has to deal with all the expenses as well as their grief.