• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Sure, the modern Western culture of funerals might not be so great, especially the open casket stuff.

    But saying goodbye and maybe having a party with your still living closest ones, can be helpful for many. It’s very much a “life goes on” situation.

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      1 year ago

      The party part is nice… It’s all the other stuff I’m not into. Not to mention that here it’s very expensive and often a burden on the family. I gotta make a will and request no funeral at all. Have a party if you want and talk about all the dumb bullshit I did and said and laugh 😂

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        1 year ago

        The high price is very much an exploitation of people’s grief for profit. Using their emotional connection to argue that they “should” pay a lot. It sucks real bad.

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        1 year ago

        My mother, as she grows older, is thinking about her passing and planning for it. Nothings wrong, she’s just a planner.

        She is looking into donating her corpse to science.

        Med students need cadavers to practice on, grisly, but better than being a human guinea pig for some Doc’s first attempt at surgical intervention.

        Or, there was a story that made rounds about a guys mother whose body was used in testing explosives by the military. If I get a choice I want that option, since apparently funeral pyres are illegal these days.