DarkMistress
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posted on 29/11/2002 at 04:10 PM |
This is something a bit fun, and perhaps a bit creepy. I went to a funeral
today and in all my boredom I came up wtih two lists about funerals. The
categories are hates and likes. Maybe you have something to add to either?
Feel free, but anyway, this is what I've come up with.
Hates:
1. It's extremely boring to sit there doing nothing.
2. If it's an open casket they probably
look way different then when they were alive.
3. You remember other funerals of people you loved and
that makes you teary.
4. They remind you that this is how you'll eventually
end up.
5. Life sucks. Funerals remind us even more of that.
6. It seems like almost everyone there has grey/white
hair or a cane.
7. Old people come up and tell you they'll put a rock
on your head to stop you from growing.
8. People come up and say remember me and you have to
act like you do even though you don't.
Likes:
1. Graveyards are cool as hell.
2. Free food.
3. Even though the car ride might be long sometimes
you have enough time to get something out of your
parents.
4. If you sit in a corner and don't talk to someone
they think you're sad but you could be thinking about
something else entirely.
5. Pretty flowers.
6. People won't judge you for wearing all black
____________________
"Pity no one was there
No angels in the air
And the morning paper ran
One more suicide"
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Dolorosa
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posted on 29/11/2002 at 04:28 PM |
Good idea there...
Good stuff.
Dead people are Goth as Fuck.
Flirting at a funeral is fun.
Rendering Honors due is also very cool.
Bad Stuff.
Funerals can indeed be boring.
Ghosts tend to stare.
Grave dirt is hard to get off your hands.
Personally when I die, I don't want to have a somber long-ass funeral...I
want whatever scraps ar left of me thrown in a pot or something and
torched, then sold to dumb people on the streets in little plastic
baggies...and instead of a funeral, I want a huge-assed wild bacchanal-type
bash, were everybody gets wasted, frisky and forgets every single damn
inhibition they ever had, if for but a day. I don't mind tears, but I want
them overweighed with laughter.
I would like to be remembered, not mourned. ____________________
In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King
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Closetgothbabe
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posted on 29/11/2002 at 06:01 PM |
I hate funerals..........
Bad Stuff
1. When its an open casket...that image of the person sticks in your mind
forever
2. I cant handle death at all!
3. It smells funny in a funeral home (could just be the thought of dead
people though)
4. You have to see relatives that you cant stand
5. It makes you think to much
6. Crying sucks
7. You are usually bored out of your mind
8. I have a hard time making myself go to them and then people assume I
dont care. Actually I care to deep and cant handle it and cry way to
much.
Good stuff
1. hmmmm cant think of anything good about it
I just hate funerals....hehe
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AloneSoul
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posted on 29/11/2002 at 10:24 PM |
Ills
1. They drag on for to long.
2. If a Christian funeral you are subjected to a preacher claiming the
death of our loved one as “god’s will”....over and over and over...
3. - I’ve been to many funerals and never once were they catered.
Virtues
1. There is some solace within sorrow.
Cemeteries are very peaceful but the funeral functions are far from it.
When it comes to the funerals themselves, I control myself just fine but it
is never a easy task when the death is so close. And yes, we would be
better off to be remembered and not mourned but this is the way we’ve been
raised in our society though...you know, that would make a good article for
shmeng. ____________________
 but at least you know, just how much pain there is in living
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bettie_x
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posted on 29/11/2002 at 10:57 PM |
I dunno know what YOU guys are talkin about....I put the "FUN" back in
FUNERAL ....
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Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Monolycus
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posted on 29/11/2002 at 11:53 PM |
CGB: The "funny smell" you are talking about is there deliberately to mask
the smell of corruption of the flesh and the equally nauseating stink of
formalin and other preservative/embalming agents. Trust me, having worked
with cadavers, there is absolutely NO WAY to make them smell good. Funeral
homes rely heavily on rose scented perfumes and incenses. As a result, I
have a Pavlovian reaction against the smell of roses.
~Monolycus.
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Closetgothbabe
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posted on 30/11/2002 at 07:25 AM |
Yuck....I cant stand to be in a funeral home at all. Thanks for letting me
know it wasnt just me *smiles* All I have to say to death is.....You can
kiss my ass Death!
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DarkMistress
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posted on 30/11/2002 at 12:09 PM |
| Funerals are the sucky part, cemeteries are the nice part. Well, I think
so at least. I'm not scared to die I just don't want to. Has anyone heard
that commercial on the radio about drunk driving and how the guy will put
pieces of your body back together? It's really gross.. ____________________
"Pity no one was there
No angels in the air
And the morning paper ran
One more suicide"
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shadow_in_the_darkness
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posted on 30/11/2002 at 12:17 PM |
Pros:
1) If you stay behind, people think you're still mourning, and you can go
hang out.
2) Mourning is as goth as fuck.
3) Some people always wonder what a ghost looks like. Here's the chance to
find out.
Cons:
1) They are boring..........
2) The corpse tends to look unhuman.....you know, like it's always all
smoothed out..
3) For some reason, people don't think it's fun to jump on top of the grave
and yell 'party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' ____________________
I have one big yellow furry monkey ball.....yellow furry monkey
ball.........yellow...*slaps self* oh forget it, its useless, they'll never
understand.....
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AloneSoul
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posted on 1/12/2002 at 02:08 PM |
| Also you never see much of a drunken funeral in these times. ____________________
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size=1> but at least you know, just how much pain there is in living
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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 1/12/2002 at 03:27 PM |
I've attended a bit of funerals, and not at any one did I truly cry. I
once shed a few tears at my grandfather's funeral because everyone else was
crying and I couldn't bear their tears. I knew and I know that he didn't
want our tears. I also never cried over my great-grandfather. I also once
went to a funeral for a woman from my church whom everyone loved dearly
because she made the most awesome iced-tea, and they wrote her name on a
marker board at church in the top right-hand corner and it has never come
off of it(pretty cool I think), but everyone else was crying, and I
didn't.
Also, when I went to Boston this summer I visited most of the graveyards
on the Freedom Trail. The signs said to not step off of the paths,
but I did, just so I could take pictures of the tomb stones. My heart felt
so lite in there, so much that I wanted to skip about the graves, and I did
skip down the designated path when I was finished shooting photos. I got a
few odd looks just for that. Call it irreverance for wanting to, but I am
sure these people wouldn't want us to mourn them still after 200 or more
years. Yes, mourning is a very goth like thing, but so is accepting death,
and I do accept it, just don't care to go just yet.
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"People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
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DarkMistress
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posted on 1/12/2002 at 04:31 PM |
| I can understand that MRD04. It's okay to not cry, I didn't cry when my
grandmother died because I knew she wasn't in pain anymore and that made me
happy. I still think we should have sucked that damn hospital dry; they
basically caused her death. She was dehydrated, and they gave her too much
water, so she was airlifted to St. Mary's where she eventually died. St.
Oalif (damn I can't even spell it) causes a lot of deaths, from what I've
observed and heard. Not to mention they had all the records of my neice
which mysteriously disappeared after she died. ____________________
"Pity no one was there
No angels in the air
And the morning paper ran
One more suicide"
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Dolorosa
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posted on 2/12/2002 at 10:06 AM |
Two words...
Nude Funeral...
I know I got some people with me on this one.  ____________________
In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King
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DarkMistress
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posted on 3/12/2002 at 04:23 PM |
care for a little necrophilia?  ____________________
"Pity no one was there
No angels in the air
And the morning paper ran
One more suicide"
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Monolycus
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posted on 3/12/2002 at 05:32 PM |
I'm sorry, Dolo... I can't get behind the idea of a nude funeral because
the people that generally attend those things are friends and (primarily)
family of the decedent. If you sprang from the nightmare of a gene pool
that I did, you would be clamouring for mandatory burqas at public
functions.
~M.
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Closetgothbabe
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posted on 3/12/2002 at 08:36 PM |
To be honest Dolo that is the first time anyone has mentioned funeral and I
smiled and giggled...haha
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Starlight
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posted on 4/12/2002 at 03:22 AM |
| Has anyone else kissed the dead person in the casket on the forehead? I
think I've done that like three or four times. ____________________
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before." ~Mae West
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DarkMistress
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posted on 4/12/2002 at 02:59 PM |
| Once in third grade. ____________________
"Pity no one was there
No angels in the air
And the morning paper ran
One more suicide"
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KatB
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posted on 5/12/2002 at 02:34 AM |
...And I think third grade is a good time for that kind of discussions
;-P
Well I used to have all these grand plans on how I wanted to get buried...
Spanning from a quick cremation, ashes tucked away a nice place in the
forest where I come from, no big thing, (which turned out to be illegal...)
to a grand thing with Bach and Dead Can Dance playing in the speakers, or
as a party with good food and lots of alcohol - that's how the good ol'
vikings did it - etc etc ad nauseam.
Then I realized that whenever I die, I sincerely hope I will leave behind
people I care about, and I would not, even when dead, throw something that
would make them uncomfortable. The whole point of rituals is to deal with
changes. When people go away, some kind of mourning ritual (read: funeral)
should allow people to grief, and get on with life. So I will leave that
part up to people I love and trust, and they will hopefully do whatever
makes them feel good.
When I good friend of mine killed himself his parents made us sing friggin'
Kum Ba Ya in his funeral, I think they punished us for "leading him astray"
or something... Nasty. ____________________
All stressed out and no one to choke...
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Monolycus
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posted on 5/12/2002 at 06:39 PM |
KatB: I don't believe that it is entirely coincidental that your friend
killed himself and had parents who would sing "Kum Ba Ya".
~M.
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