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i'm amazed the mail is not offering a interview in Paris

if history repeated imagine the sales, headlines and respective 12 pages memorials
 
Ax^ said:
hmm caskets are different that coffins

one being fucking heavier than the other

carried a few coffins took about six of us ... caskets your talking about 8 at least
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i did not know there was a difference - I thought casket was just US English for coffin?
 
Orang Utan said:
i did not know there was a difference - I thought casket was just US English for coffin?
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No, the Americans use those big rectangles with padded interiors, and they call it a casket. They often seem to have a split lid, like a barn door, where you can open the top so the corpse is on display. I’ve never seen one of those in Europe, where the coffin is generally a basic body shape that goes out for the shoulders and back in. Either with a British style lid, or a continental half top.
 
Orang Utan said:
i did not know there was a difference - I thought casket was just US English for coffin?
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the funeral trade in the states got more heavily monetised than Europe since the 1950s


they offer stupidly over worked and designed coffins, concrete lined burials and other madness

you get ripped for the cermonies, church and flowers in ireland but you tend to be in the ground within 3 days

you have it a hell of a lot worse in the uk and the states is just insanity
 
Ax^ said:
the funeral trade in the states got more heavily monetised than Europe since the 1950s


they offer stupidly over worked and designed coffins, concrete lined burials and other madness

you get ripped for the cermonies, church and flowers in ireland but you tend to be in the ground within 3 days

you have it a hell of a lot worse in the uk and the states is just insanity
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I honestly prefer the UK way. I like a week or two to get used to the idea that the person is gone first, and then the standard cremation that most Brits go for. Burial frightens me at the best of times, but the thought that you can be up and living at the beginning of the week and then locked in the ground for eternity before the weekend is fucking claustrophobia on steroids.
 
Tanya1982 said:
No, the Americans use those big rectangles with padded interiors, and they call it a casket. They often seem to have a split lid, like a barn door, where you can open the top so the corpse is on display. I’ve never seen one of those in Europe, where the coffin is generally a basic body shape that goes out for the shoulders and back in. Either with a British style lid, or a continental half top.
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they're all coffins to me - a box you burn or bury a dead person in
 
Tanya1982 said:
I honestly prefer the UK way. I like a week or two to get used to it, and then the standard cremation that most Brits go for. Burial frightens me, and the thought that you can be up and living at the beginning of the week and in the ground for eternity before the weekend is fucking claustrophobia on steroids.
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I feel the opposite way - get it over with ASAP and then start grieving properly
 
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Tanya1982 said:
I honestly prefer the UK way. I like a week or two to get used to the idea that the person is gone, and then the standard cremation that most Brits go for. Burial frightens me at the best of times, but the thought that you can be up and living at the beginning of the week and in the ground for eternity before the weekend is fucking claustrophobia on steroids.
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i was like that and from a city so the first time..

ran away from the idea of visiting an open coffin was 8 mind you da still did not like it


more exposed to it now and feel the quickness of an irish funeral can give people that final realisation they are not coming back
so the grieving process can really start


saying that have been a wakes with kids they will not understand :/
 
without trying to be coarse its more completing the ceremony with the body

rather than how you decided to bury or burn it

that starts the proper grieving process for most people i've known
 
Ax^ said:
without trying to be course its more completing the cermony with the body

rather than how you decieded to bury or burn it
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Isn’t the body always at the ceremony? It’s usually right there in the closed coffin, and depending on the crematorium, on the conveyor belt or on the stage/dumb waiter thing that lowers it down to wherever the oven is.
 
Yuwipi Woman said:
I want a sky burial. Let the bugs and animals have what they can take.
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If they hear about it and object to my plans, they can have the proceeds of a charity collection in lieu of anything else.

I’ve got a pinch of my grandfather and grandmothers ashes, my eldest son, and my father saved. Unless she outlives me, my mother will be added, and the same deal with my brother. That’s all to be added to my own, shaken to mix, and then released.
 
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Tanya1982 said:
Isn’t the body always at the ceremony? It’s usually right there in the closed coffin, and depending on the crematorium, on the conveyor belt or on the stage/dumb waiter thing that lowers it down to wherever the oven is.
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sorry getting away from the main point

the final ceremonies completed shortly after death a few days to a week or rather

dragged out for a couple of weeks or months
 
Yuwipi Woman said:
I want a sky burial. Let the bugs and animals have what they can take.
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I want to be fed into a wood chipper in Leicester Square, during the premiere of Avatar 9, so my semi-liquidised remains are spattered alll over the bodies and gawping open mouths of moronic starfucking idiots, causing the maximum amount of trauma, inconvenience and bother for the most amount of people
 
Orang Utan said:
I want to be fed into a wood chipper in Leicester Square, during the premiere of Avatar 9, so my semi-liquidised remains are spattered alll over the bodies and gawping open mouths of moronic starfucking idiots, causing the maximum amount of trauma, inconvenience and bother for the most amount of people
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That sounds nice. May you rest in your own peace, in pieces.
 
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My dad was apparently in an open casket at the funeral home (in France) we all met up at before driving to the crematorium. I was a bit uncertain about going in to see him, but then a friend of his came out and said "Oh, you really should, he looks lovely, they've given him and shave and put him in a suit". At which point I decided definitely not to see him, as the scruffy bugger rarely shaved much and never put on a suit, so I wanted to remember him as he was, not as some French undertaker had assumed he would have wanted to look.
 
Orang Utan said:
Popelore is weird - don’t the cardinals also make new popes sit on a chair with a hole in in the seat then lift them above their heads, Jewish-wedding-style, so they can inspect their genitalia?
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Nah, that was one of the early episodes of the Chuckle Brothers.
 
UrbaneFox said:
US chest of drawers-style burial chambers give me the creeps. It's as though they want to stay in the mortuary and not really be put out to moulder.
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For $2 Million, a Chance to Spend Eternity Next to Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner

At Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, an unused burial crypt is being shopped by the family of the late Broadway composer Jerry Herman.
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I went there once, for a tour - god knows why, it’s absolutely not my thing at all, I hate graveyards, I must’ve been drunk when I agreed to it. We were told (and I was so disgusted I later checked, and he’s on YouTube where he openly admits it) that the funeral director who oversaw Marilyn Monroe ripped off her false eyelashes and kept them as souvenirs, before he shut the lid.
 
Orang Utan said:
I want to be fed into a wood chipper in Leicester Square, during the premiere of Avatar 9, so my semi-liquidised remains are spattered alll over the bodies and gawping open mouths of moronic starfucking idiots, causing the maximum amount of trauma, inconvenience and bother for the most amount of people
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - "A bloody delight"

Visionary filmmaker James Cameron took things to a new level with the stunning latest installment of the Avatar saga - defying critics who say he's stuck in a rut, he went beyond 3D and sprayed audiences with what seemed to be actual human remains during a battle scene in the fifth hour of Avatar 9. I gazed in wonder at the beautiful, bloody world of the Na'vi as other enthralled filmgoers vomited around me.
 
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