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Android Apocalypse posted:Saw this in the PYF GIF thread & thought of the conversation earlier regarding gift wrapping: That’s magic to me right there.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I've heard of cremated remains being turned into rocks, but it was in context of their cat's recent passing. Good to know they can do that to human remains too. l'd like to be made into one large rock and dropped off a bridge or into a calm lake I think, just so everyone present gets to hear that really lovely satisfying *KER PLUNK* noise
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Android Apocalypse posted:Saw this in the PYF GIF thread & thought of the conversation earlier regarding gift wrapping:
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apparently it's difficult to get a bronze age british cist burial anymore, sheesh nobody respects my heritage dig a hole and line it with stones, put me in on my side, add grave goods, and put a capstone on top. Should last two or three thousand years. I'm sure there's no problem with billions of humans demanding to be buried like this. I am very special and deserve to be remembered forever. Or at least inconvenience farmers forever.
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I remember seeing a cool thing in the old Bodywork's exhibit about sky burials and I think it would be cool to let nature destroy my carcass out in the wilderness on top of a mountain. I also remember fellow goon Crosshatch saying how he wanted his remains dealt with: "Take my body & string it up over the ocean off a boat where sharks can jump up and eat it, all the while having the event livestreamed."
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I'm gonna have my organs removed like the pharaohs of old. Then I'm gonna be stuffed with candy and toys, and little children will be invited to hit me with a baseball bat. To my knowledge the pharaohs never did this. Bronze and individually number any remaining pieces and auction them off as paperweights.
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I think my current wishes are to be donated to science and the money for a burial/cremation etc used to for a big gently caress off party in my honour. I havent updated my will since I bought my house like 7 years ago though.
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I wanna be mummified then given to a traveling freak show, then in like a hundred years they realize I’m a real mummy, then everyone can spend the next few decades wondering “Who the gently caress was that guy?”
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BlindSite posted:I think my current wishes are to be donated to science and the money for a burial/cremation etc used to for a big gently caress off party in my honour. In the US that means your donated body would likely be sold to an arms manufacturer for munitions testing  My grandfather when he died was cremated and has his ashes spread where some fruit trees were planted on my sister's farm. Mother wants the same, I figure that's as good a place as any for myself as well.
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Immediately after my sister’s funeral I told my GF if whoever survives me holds a funeral at a church and some schmuck pastor turns my death into a long-winded sermon about how actually it was good I died because that’s what God wanted, I’m rising from hell and burning the whole church down. Every funeral I’ve been to has been gross in that regard, it’s so skeevy to meSilly Burrito posted:Try that. Once it tells me the URL is ready to be pasted, my phone doesn’t recognize having anything to paste in the Awful App, and it doesn’t paste anything anywhere else, so idk what the deal is 
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I really just want my ashes sprinkled at Lake Jocassee but I’m fine if you just hurl my body through Joe Lieberman’s window too.
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Kalli posted:In the US that means your donated body would likely be sold to an arms manufacturer for munitions testing Haha rough. Here it's just for med students.
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Leperflesh posted:We will have to find out what the rules are, there are rules of course, and we also don't want a big lebowski situation. I'm very sorry for your loss, Leper. If I am ever in an ashes-spreading situation it is pretty much guaranteed I will be saying it's being done "in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been".
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while cremation is I guess more responsible than using up a chunk of land forever for your body, as a woodworker the idea of making my own coffin appeals to me. and as a fan of Time Team and archaeology in general, the idea of grave goods that could baffle some archaeologists in two thousand years is also appealing, although of course if there are still archaeologists in two thousand years they'll hardly be lacking in 20th and 21st century graves to dig up and probably won't be getting around to mine.
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BlindSite posted:Haha rough. Here it's just for med students. There are also cops doing pseudo forensic science leaving your body in a field to decay as an option here. I'm way late but condolences Leper. I had a friend who lost her mom recently and that was/is a whole deal. I hope it isn't too terrible to get things sorted, but I'd imagine (I know) there's a lot of sorting to do.
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yeah so far there's nothing at all for me to do but I am gonna have to go out to colorado some point when the rest of my siblings can go too and just like, go through all her stuff to figure out what we want to keep and what to get rid of and that's gonna be hard
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I'm sorry Leper. That's rough. But don't forget your epals are here for you as well if you ever need to vent.  If I die, I want my ashes spread across the ocean cliffs of Santa Barbara, on a particularly windy day so I hit my most precious family and friends in the face on the way out. you read that right...
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Can I donate my body to necrophiliacs? Everyone I like is gonna be sad, it'd be nice to make someone happy.
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It's my only kid's 17th birthday today and they wanted to go to the Indiana Pacers game so made the drive from Kentucky and ate some great hot chicken. I definitely feel old knowing next year will be 18.
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There's a good documentary out there called Alternate Endings: 6 New Ways to Die made by HBO that discusses ways to deal with death rather than the traditional ways of getting sick and dying, then either being buried in a coffin or being cremated. One of the stories mentioned was a woman who had a dad who loved boating / going out to sea. When she died, she flew out to a tropical area and had his ashes mixed into something to help rebuild the coral reef. That's how I wanna go. The overall doc is great, but also unless you're a heartless rear end in a top hat you're gonna cry because naturally, it deals with death.
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SundayMoney posted:It's my only kid's 17th birthday today and they wanted to go to the Indiana Pacers game so made the drive from Kentucky and ate some great hot chicken. I definitely feel old knowing next year will be 18. I'm sure you're a great parent who has done everything they can to help you're child be a fully functional adult, but, as an only child with great parents, you can feel safe in knowing they will still need a lot of help and advice for many years to come.
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My parents are very very big on "don't leave your loved ones homework". Everything's planned, paid for, and listed. I've talked it out with them (I have two older sisters; Dad made me the executor because the oldest is very bipolar and lazy, and he's ok with them thinking he's just sexist) and we've even rehearsed what to do. I wish more people felt that way. Friends who felt guilty because they didn't visit a parent's grave often enough, upkeep, etc. I'm leaving my carcass to my undergrad alma mater's mediocre medical school. Somehow, having a SE Asian failson who didn't have the grades to get into an Ivy like his brothers cut into my fat white rear end so he can squeak a C in a prereq class is like, the most fitting possible closing of my circle.
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seiferguy posted:One of the stories mentioned was a woman who had a dad who loved boating / going out to sea. When she died, she flew out to a tropical area and had his ashes mixed into something to help rebuild the coral reef. That's how I wanna go. That rules. Air Skwirl posted:I'm sure you're a great parent who has done everything they can to help you're child be a fully functional adult, but, as an only child with great parents, you can feel safe in knowing they will still need a lot of help and advice for many years to come. Same. I was a “functional adult” only child and they got several years of overtime dealing with my bullshit.
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my parents were very kind in providing lots of advice I didn't need and shouldn't and didn't follow, and also totally whiffed on even noticing where I really desperately needed it: but they were also there a few times I really needed help so it worked out. I figure that's probably how it usually goes.
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Leperflesh posted:my parents were very kind in providing lots of advice I didn't need and shouldn't and didn't follow, and also totally whiffed on even noticing where I really desperately needed it: but they were also there a few times I really needed help so it worked out. I figure that's probably how it usually goes. Cautionary tales and unsolicited advice are my mom’s specialty. She still tells me the procedure to reheat things in a microwave, and I just know it’s an annoying thing now that’s going to make me cry when she’s gone. “I got it mom, I’m 40.”
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 Testing this iOs shortcut thingy while picking my wife up for lunch.
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Kelly heard about your plight Leper. https://twitter.com/KartoonistKelly/status/1737600666606956919?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Sweet. Bonus blep.
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My wife and I did our Christmas tonight because we are leaving Friday for family and all that mess that is visiting two extended families during one holiday weekend. One cool gift she got me is a professional weather station. Our Wifi covers pretty far out so I csn mount it at the end of our yard, or on the deck. Aside from all the usual data and such, it feeds into the National Weather Service to give hyperlocal data about snowfall, winds, etc. Gonna do some amateur meteorology!
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T-Square posted:
That's weird, do you have any paste restrictions that might prevent it? If you haven't already, try logging in to imgur before you try the shortcut perhaps?
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swickles posted:My wife and I did our Christmas tonight because we are leaving Friday for family and all that mess that is visiting two extended families during one holiday weekend. One cool gift she got me is a professional weather station. Our Wifi covers pretty far out so I csn mount it at the end of our yard, or on the deck. Aside from all the usual data and such, it feeds into the National Weather Service to give hyperlocal data about snowfall, winds, etc. Gonna do some amateur meteorology! These are pretty neat. I got my step Dad one like 5 years ago and he still uses it!
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GD_American posted:My parents are very very big on "don't leave your loved ones homework". Everything's planned, paid for, and listed. I've talked it out with them (I have two older sisters; Dad made me the executor because the oldest is very bipolar and lazy, and he's ok with them thinking he's just sexist) and we've even rehearsed what to do. When my grandpa died back in 2010 while I was wrapping up college, it unlocked a whole level of shitstorm our family wasn't ready for. Him and grandma never talked about what would happen if one of them died. My grandma was in poor health too (nearly blind and deaf, couldn't walk well because of severe arthritis) so it meant moving her into a nursing home because she couldn't be at her house by herself. They had no documents about it, so dealing with finances was hell. Then we had to go through their house, which was a disaster. My grandma kept every bathroom rug she had owned since the great depression in garbage bags in her basement. They were half eaten by rats. Why? gently caress if I know. Never know if you might need em! Also, there was a closet full of dried pinecones with spray paint on them, apparently as Christmas decorations. Would have made for great kindling if there was a fire. Everything else was a mess, they never did any DIY so small things that could have been easily fixed were left broken. My parents immediately made end of life plans after that ordeal. When my other grandparents passed several years after, they had been coached by parents. I probably should do the same.
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GD_American posted:My parents are very very big on "don't leave your loved ones homework". Everything's planned, paid for, and listed. I've talked it out with them (I have two older sisters; Dad made me the executor because the oldest is very bipolar and lazy, and he's ok with them thinking he's just sexist) and we've even rehearsed what to do. My mom did the same thing, but when it gets down to brass tacks it's hard to remember where everything is and how it's laid out. My personal issue today is trying to figure out if the funeral was pre paid, I'll have to call around or dig through bank records, but I'm sick enough with COVID I couldn't get it done. Our other big problem is my mom had moved into her dad's home after he passed since the family wanted it to stay kept up, but the 9 siblings never went through all the possessions. So now we have to determine what was hers and what wasn't. We had time to do this and just...didn't spend time on that and spent quality time instead, so it's all ok. For cremation, we had planned to put the ashes with some new trees at our extended family's cabin, but my uncle (with a forestry degree) pointed out you run the risk of those trees dying which would be awful. So going to spread them at the base of a nice healthy tree he can identify for us.
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LeeMajors posted:Same. I was a “functional adult” only child and they got several years of overtime dealing with my bullshit. I did pretty well and got through college right in time for 2008 to happen, and felt bad about living at home (both while looking for work and then through grad school) but it wound up being a lot of good time with my parents that otherwise I wouldn’t have had, especially considering the whole “moving across an ocean” thing came next.
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seiferguy posted:My grandma kept every bathroom rug she had owned since the great depression in garbage bags in her basement. They were half eaten by rats. Why? gently caress if I know. Never know if you might need em! seiferguy posted:the great depression This plays a huge factor. (My grandma had an attic full of stuff like this too)
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wandler20 posted:I do kind of miss this era. The best part of those old speakers is that they would give you a 3 second heads up that you are about to get a cell phone call.
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