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now we're gertting grim: was: homemade bone ash

updated mon 30 apr 07

 

Donna Kat on sun 29 apr 07


On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:01:19 -0700, Maurice Weitman wrote:

>At 19:35 -0400 on 4/27/07, Lois Ruben Aronow wrote:
>>They put your corpse on a boat (presumably yours, as you are a Viking),
set
>>you aflame, and float you out to sea. At sunset. Very dramatic.
>
>Lois, have you chosen the Viking funeral because of your tattoo?
>
>For those of near-Jewish persuasion (without tattoos): perhaps you'd
>be more interested in the Jewish Viking Funeral in which they set
>fire to a likeness of the deceased sculpted from chopped liver (from
>free-range Perdue converts).
>
>Regards,
>Maurice
>
>Make pots, not war.

The only funeral I have ever been to that I thought much of, let alone
liked, was for my husband=92s Uncle. He was buried in a plain pine box, did=

not have any embalming fluids or the like pumped into his body and his
friends and family gathered around his coffin by his grave to speak of how
they would miss him and what he had taught them. It was not done in
sadness but in remembrance. No money was wasted on an ostentatious =91show=92=

and following Jewish law his body would return to the earth to give life.
Even though I love the flame (what potter doesn=92t I wonder?) and toy with
the idea of being cremated I still like the idea of returning life to the
soil. Donna