From "They’re Putting Some Fun in Funerals/Modern, even hip, mortuaries around the world are hoping to answer one question: How do we commemorate death in 2024?" (NYT).
Is this hip? Big, beautiful banners with slogans like "Embrace joy today"? Seems too close to the "Live/Laugh/Love" approach to home decor — the antithesis of hipness, no?
But I'm not the arbiter of hipness, so I'll just say....
Inside the West London crematory... Beyoncé’s hit song "Heated"....
Crematory... Heated.... intentional?
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I fell in to a burning ring of fire. Down down down and the flames leapt higher. And it burns burns burns, that ring of fire, that ring of fire.
Religion, whether sacred or secular, does not know how to deal with death.
"Heated"? That's hot.
Talking Heads comes to mind. No, not Burning Down the House, Once in a Lifetime
Goodness, don't let's ever have a bad feeling!
People of the left need to stop banging on about "norms" when they willfully ignore every single one of them. It is necessary and healthy to mourn when someone you care about dies. It doesn't preclude a "celebration of life" (in the Irish party of my family we call that a wake - laughter, jokes, stories, and tears) but it needs to be allowed to happen - otherwise you just make people feel bad about themselves for experiencing a sense of loss.
But we can't let it be seen that those old time religions ever had anything to offer to us moderns.
I want a funeral Mass. Also a wake, but I want my passing to be marked by something serious, an acknowledgement of the reality of grief, no matter how frivolous our society has become.
Listen to a Requiem and say that again.
Climate change? Girl warming? 36 is three trimesters in base-12 years.
The Irish have been putting the fun in funeral for centuries.
So Much Collective JOY! right now. Even death. The Chi-Com change-the-vote Covid Virus (plus collective lies about the origins/forced big pharma unproven jabs etc...) Virus certainly killed off a lot of people. Leftists find JOY!
An exit or evolution? A progressive disorder followed by a presumptive "big bang". When enough of these carbon clusters dissociate, will a universe follow with a new order? Secular faith would lead us to this conclusion, conviction.
Funerals, wakes, memorial services are all for the living. The nominal "host" of the event is past all caring. I think of events following a death as the corollary of those involved in a marriage. Both can lead the participants to heaven or to hell.
Poppy may be the impetus for a neo-Pluto. Just imagine.
Airstrip one is getting lively
Sequestering carbon is motivated by a Gaia thesis. Carbon emission is the resurrection of [carbon-based] life and revitalization of a green world.
I plan to have a destination funeral.
Are they trying to suggest that this week's convention is just a big, joyous funeral?
celebration of life memorials are pretty common in and out of Irish Pubs
events following a death as the corollary of those involved in a marriage
yep! the Only place easier than a wedding to get laid at is a funeral
Pretty much all my life Christians have been holding "life celebrations" in lieu of or addition to somber funerals.
My friend Scotty Booker used to Always (before he died) quote his (Missouri Synod Lutheran Church) minster on this:
F U N are the first letters, in the word FUNERAL
When Scotty died, his minister (who had baptized Scotty) said, In his funeral service; that it was SAD, that Scotty had forsaken Christ; and was BURNING IN HELL as he spoke. It was quite the interesting service (and.. YES, i Did get laid after)
See you in Hell!
New Orleans put the "fun" in funeral years ago.
did Scotty Booker die in a tragic motorcycle accident??
Why, YES.. Yes he did.
Did gilbar learn ANYTHING from that?
Why, NO.. No he did NOT
You apparently are unfamiliar with religion.
Ghana has a good tradition, look up Coffin Dance, puts the New Orleans folks to shame.
The post made me ask myself, what is hipness today? Hipness has always been about a seemingly effortless form of sophisticated detachment from conventional expressions of emotional engagement. When conventionality and bourgeois were synonyms (as they used to be), hipness really was almost effortless. Now that the behaviors we used to call bourgeois have been marginalized, the wannabe hipster has to locate some unhip consensus to effortlessly transcend. Much harder to do that in 2024. Takes lots of effort.
When there's no funeral, sometimes there's mention of a future celebration of life that never takes place.
a little presumptous was he, does he not know James 'there is no one worthy, not one'
In the absence of God, there's not much of anything positive you can say about death. It's better than a long, painful illness, but so, in many ways, is Kamala Harris. We're all just whistling past the graveyard......Even the presence of God, isn't such a big comfort. A just God would be fairly parsimonious about handing out eternal bliss to such fallen creatures such as us......I just don't think there's any way to handle death except by not thinking about it......When I was younger, I thought death was kind of poetic, but now it's just frightening.
Does anyone in the "elite" that reads the NYT's have any class? In ye olden days you were supposed to admire the "elite" because they had patterns of behavior that weren't vulgar or ugly. Now, they just seem like clowns.
Joyous cremations. Dancing to "Heated." Fun, hip funerals as celebrations. So, pretty much like the DNC nominating convention.
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Somebody will end up buried. Biden, Harris, Trump, I'm not sure who. But an attempt to bury will be made, or an inadvertent burial will occur.
It's ok to feel badly sometimes, especially if it is in the context of losing someone you cared about. I'm not saying a funeral has to be filled with wailing and gnashing of teeth, but feeling sorrow and maybe even crying can have a cathartic effect which in the long term can help folks deal with the end of their time with a loved-one here on Earth. It also emotionally reinforces the principle that human life matters and is of paramount importance. All of our Enlightenment era princples of freedoms and human rights depends on humans being special just for existing as humans. In a very secular society where the belief that humans are special just for being hujmans because that is how God made them is diminishing emotions that reinforce this principle are of even greater importance.
I never read it, but in "Brave New World" didn't all the people take a drug called Soma which made them not have bad feelings like one would normally associate with a funeral or death of a loved one? How'd that society shape up?
An enjoyable carbon complex, a sympathetic character constellation, she will be missed. Sequester in Peace until emission resurrects you.
☝️Sweet!☝️
But sometimes hipness is what it ain’t.
For this crowd “Drugs” would be a more relevant TH tune.
If you believe that death is THE END -- not just the end of your contact with a loved one, but the REAL and COMPLETE END of your loved-one, and will one day be the end of YOU -- then if I knew you I'd pray for you. But I don't know you, and you don't know me. But I pray that you will meet again those you care about, as I pray that I will meet again those I care about.
Let me know.
Old joke: What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral? One less drunk.
A good wake is a great sendoff. Especially when the old stories start to be told.
I come not to praise but to bury him?
Gentlemen and Ladies, statrt your shovels!
“yep! the Only place easier than a wedding to get laid at is a funeral”
Sheesh! Easy pickins, but your timing has to be precise… I suspect you found it’s best before they are laid to rest!
Thank you Godfather...
This person knows nothing about religion.
I am glad I am Eastern Orthodox. The whole thing is geared to preparing you for death.
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