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Even if My love isn't reciprocated.
What is love?
one answer from a 'toon':
"Love is never having to say you're sorry"
(from a toon or a movie, I forget)
one answer from a 'toon':
"Love is never having to say you're sorry"
(from a toon or a movie, I forget)
You can't say "the book was better," or the movie, for that matter. They both sucked, the worst rich boy/poor girl trope ever. Al Gore claimed he and Tipper were the inspiration for it, and maybe I believe him on that one.
As one reviewer said, "If you watched the book, you can now read the movie."
Ali MacGraw showed why pretty models do not necessarily morph into even half-decent actresses. But Francis Lai's score was delicious.
As one reviewer said, "If you watched the book, you can now read the movie."
Ali MacGraw showed why pretty models do not necessarily morph into even half-decent actresses. But Francis Lai's score was delicious.
Actually, as anyone who has ever been married knows, Love is ALWAYS having to say you're sorry, even when you're not.
Ryan O’Neal: Love is never having to say you’re sorry.
Barbra Streisand: That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard.
Barbra Streisand: That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard.
I just watched that again last weekend. I loved those two lines!
Is that why they call it “pushin up daisies” ?
With Gary Ridgway's 14 y.o. victim from 20 years ago just been identified by DNA making the news here in the NW, this "latest" form of disposing of the body makes me think Gary was ahead of his time.
He'd kill some girl/woman and then just dump the body out in the woods. Let the predators, like bears, coyotes, eagles, etc. take care of the remains. Sick.
He'd kill some girl/woman and then just dump the body out in the woods. Let the predators, like bears, coyotes, eagles, etc. take care of the remains. Sick.
Beautiful. We consume so much from the dirt and make so many things for our consumption of self. Beautiful dirt. Ashes to ashes is what I have to ask for. I can't afford dirt to dirt.
I thought this would be about nightsoil.
There is beauty in the human soil.
This was discussed years ago, when Ralston-Purina applied to the Federal gov't for access; to allow acquisition of corpses/remains which might occur, during a National Emergency/Mass Casualty Event, to be recovered; to be used as feed for livestock. Nothing new here. Should we be surprised? OK...pretend to be surprised.
...have a nice day!
...have a nice day!
There’s a capitalist solution to the COVID19 pandemic burial problem.
I come from a very strongly, cremation oriented, family--so composting is also fine by me.
After dealing (in radically different ways) with the cremated remains of family members, it sounds good to me.
[My Grandma's ashes were FINALLY--after several years in the reminiscent-of-Keystone-Cops custody of my parents--buried (after my parents died) beside my Grandpa's ashes in a cemetery which is almost within sight of where I live now. That's what Grandma wanted, and that's what she got.
My mother's ashes were sprinkled, from a bridge above, into the Colorado River by my sister; a few years later, my father's ashes were sprinkled into a campfire in North Carolina by my sister, who was living in North Carolina at that time.
My aunt's ashes were sifted through a colander (I had to retrieve the circular metal I.D. tag the crematory is required by law to include inside the ashes), and then sprinkled, and through this disposition isn't what she asked for, I think she would be okay with my decision.
IMPORTANT: If you are intending to sprinkle ashes into gardens, rivers, parks, etc., you NEED to retrieve that circular metal I.D. "dogtag." If you do NOT retrieve that I.D. tag, you can be charged with violation of whatever local laws might be applicable in that specific area (laws throughout the USA vary widely on this particular subject). A colander and a big spoon (like you would use with a big soup pot), or a sturdy stick, will suffice to get the ashes through the colander "mesh." Once you have retrieved that metal tag (take it with you!!), you can then distribute the ashes as you, and the deceased person, have previously agreed on.]
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After dealing (in radically different ways) with the cremated remains of family members, it sounds good to me.
[My Grandma's ashes were FINALLY--after several years in the reminiscent-of-Keystone-Cops custody of my parents--buried (after my parents died) beside my Grandpa's ashes in a cemetery which is almost within sight of where I live now. That's what Grandma wanted, and that's what she got.
My mother's ashes were sprinkled, from a bridge above, into the Colorado River by my sister; a few years later, my father's ashes were sprinkled into a campfire in North Carolina by my sister, who was living in North Carolina at that time.
My aunt's ashes were sifted through a colander (I had to retrieve the circular metal I.D. tag the crematory is required by law to include inside the ashes), and then sprinkled, and through this disposition isn't what she asked for, I think she would be okay with my decision.
IMPORTANT: If you are intending to sprinkle ashes into gardens, rivers, parks, etc., you NEED to retrieve that circular metal I.D. "dogtag." If you do NOT retrieve that I.D. tag, you can be charged with violation of whatever local laws might be applicable in that specific area (laws throughout the USA vary widely on this particular subject). A colander and a big spoon (like you would use with a big soup pot), or a sturdy stick, will suffice to get the ashes through the colander "mesh." Once you have retrieved that metal tag (take it with you!!), you can then distribute the ashes as you, and the deceased person, have previously agreed on.]
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Amazing!!!
Ash-tag Dead Body...
Ash-tag Dead Body...
Stand upwind when you shake the coffee can.
You're out of your element, Donnie !
My wife's late parents' ashes are both in urns in our attic.
One day we'll get around to it, but over here in France there are laws against spreading them just anywhere, so we'll probably do it clandestinely with a minimum of fuss.
One day we'll get around to it, but over here in France there are laws against spreading them just anywhere, so we'll probably do it clandestinely with a minimum of fuss.
Soft Machine Wrote:
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> My wife's late parents' ashes are both in urns in
> our attic.
>
> One day we'll get around to it, but over here in
> France there are laws against spreading them just
> anywhere, so we'll probably do it clandestinely
> with a minimum of fuss.
My advice (given that I do not know where the cremations took place):
Make CERTAIN there are no metal I.D. tags in the ashes! (From my experience, the tags are usually, and probably intentionally,
buried DEEP inside the ashes--precisely so that most people will not be aware the tags are there.)
If that metal I.D. tag is "found," there is no such thing as doing the scattering "clandestinely"--the metal tag is an absolutely certain identification.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/05/2021 01:04AM by Tevai.
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> My wife's late parents' ashes are both in urns in
> our attic.
>
> One day we'll get around to it, but over here in
> France there are laws against spreading them just
> anywhere, so we'll probably do it clandestinely
> with a minimum of fuss.
My advice (given that I do not know where the cremations took place):
Make CERTAIN there are no metal I.D. tags in the ashes! (From my experience, the tags are usually, and probably intentionally,
buried DEEP inside the ashes--precisely so that most people will not be aware the tags are there.)
If that metal I.D. tag is "found," there is no such thing as doing the scattering "clandestinely"--the metal tag is an absolutely certain identification.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/05/2021 01:04AM by Tevai.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/6065136/freeze-dried-death-promession-cremation-burial/
Much prefer quick freeze & shaken... not stirred.
Much prefer quick freeze & shaken... not stirred.
There was a beautiful German beer mug on the mantel.
"A lovely piece. Where did you get it?"
"It was your Uncle Frank's. Believe it or not, it holds his ashes. It was his last wish. He never explained why."
"You mean Uncle Frank's in--in--in..."
"Oh, now I get it! Uncle Frank's in the stein!"
"A lovely piece. Where did you get it?"
"It was your Uncle Frank's. Believe it or not, it holds his ashes. It was his last wish. He never explained why."
"You mean Uncle Frank's in--in--in..."
"Oh, now I get it! Uncle Frank's in the stein!"
I'm getting toasted, like my wife and planted with her. My Mormon family was decidedly anti burnt offering but they are irrelevant to my wishes.
Mozart was finally exhumed from his pauper's grave to be given a proper funeral, and to the surprise of the workers he was found with reams of half-erased music manuscripts.
He was decomposing.
He was decomposing.
Chicken N. Backpacks Wrote:
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> Mozart was finally exhumed from his pauper's grave
> to be given a proper funeral, and to the surprise
> of the workers he was found with reams of
> half-erased music manuscripts.
>
> He was decomposing.
:D
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> Mozart was finally exhumed from his pauper's grave
> to be given a proper funeral, and to the surprise
> of the workers he was found with reams of
> half-erased music manuscripts.
>
> He was decomposing.
:D
When my FIL died there was a family discussion on where he should be buried, They were running out of places in the family plots.
Grandmother-in-law settled the discussion when she said when she died she wanted to be cremated and buried on top of her husband, my grandfather in law, and closed the discussion when she said " God only knows how long he was on top of me."
Grandmother-in-law settled the discussion when she said when she died she wanted to be cremated and buried on top of her husband, my grandfather in law, and closed the discussion when she said " God only knows how long he was on top of me."
I like what Elder Berry said.
Bryant's lovely poem "Thanatopsis" has this lovely passage:
Yet a few days, and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more
In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears,
Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go
To mix for ever with the elements,
To be a brother to the insensible rock
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould.
If you are not familiar with this poem it's worth reading the whole thing. (The author was a young man of 19 when he wrote it!)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50465/thanatopsis
Yet a few days, and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more
In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears,
Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go
To mix for ever with the elements,
To be a brother to the insensible rock
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould.
If you are not familiar with this poem it's worth reading the whole thing. (The author was a young man of 19 when he wrote it!)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50465/thanatopsis