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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:12 PM Original message |
How did your family treat death? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. There is a Heaven |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 12:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
23. "What I learned, however, was that there wasn't." |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 11:05 AM Response to Reply #23 |
33. Let me put it this way: |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. That's evidence for the physical body. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:20 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Show me a spirit then... |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:27 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Show me it it's not there.... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:28 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Can't prove a negative |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 06:08 PM Response to Reply #44 |
48. Just a personal anecdote. |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. An aunt of mine told me |
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kayakjohnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Your post is the saddest and darkest thing I've ever read in all my years on this site. |
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kimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 07:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. This is so sad |
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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 07:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I'm so sorry to hear that, Frogmarch. My family's approach to death |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. My dear Old Troop... |
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kimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. Whoo, heavy topic |
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Ishoutandscream2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
46. Kimi, your mom seemed to be stating Krishna Consciousness |
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The Flaming Red Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. Food, Food, Food |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 03:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
36. My family treated death to some salmon mousse. |
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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:18 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. Trying to trick him into choosing someone else so the good times |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-13-10 01:44 PM Response to Reply #39 |
49. Death gets the mousse, we eat cake. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
9. In my family of origin, children did not go to funerals |
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siligut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. Practical, in general. |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
11. Casual denial |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. I'd say they treat it pretty emotionally mature, as your family does. |
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Massacure (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
13. Interestingly enough, my views of death were shaped most by a computer science class I took. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
14. Just put me out by the curb |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 03:54 AM Response to Reply #14 |
25. That reminds me of a Monty Python skit |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 03:22 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. big MP fan |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:45 PM Response to Reply #25 |
47. Heh! "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!" |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. Half my family went out for cigarettes years ago. |
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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
41. One of the few pets that didn't go to that wonderful "farm" huh. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
16. When my grandfather died and all of his grandkids were in highschool my dad gave each of us a rose |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
17. My mom wouldn't let him in the house. |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
18. Like a river in Egypt. nt |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
19. My great grandfather tried to trap her in a magical circle in the basement about 100 years ago. |
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lightningandsnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
20. I wasn't allowed to go to my grandfather's funeral. |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
21. Pretty badly, really. |
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Silver Swan (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
22. My father died when I was eight. |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
24. As part of life. |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:19 AM Response to Original message |
26. If there are twenty cars in the funeral procession ... |
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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:23 PM Response to Reply #26 |
42. I would hope so!! |
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polly7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
27. del. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 07:39 AM Response to Original message |
28. Same as all the other kids - "Take two pieces of candy. Oh you look so cute." |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
29. Funerals were where we met extended family. I was shocked |
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ChoralScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
30. I was the only one my mother shared her funeral plans with. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
31. They didn't. (Not with us kids, anyway.) |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
32. My family is Catholic |
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sammytko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
34. A time for family to visit and recall the good times |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
37. Some made a big fuss...most just plain died. nt |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
45. If someone in our family died... |
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