So if you die

[Echewta]

would you find it touching if your friend put:

In Loving Memory of
Your Name Here
1903-2007

on the back window of their 1993 Jimmy GMC?

I don't get it.

[Rock]

So if you were a highlander, and you cut off your own head....what would happen?

[Otis Driftwood]

104 years is a ripe old age, but what kinda parents name their kid "Your name here"...

[Echewta]

I'm not talking about Connor McCloud of the clan McCloud. Gessh. The dates in the above are just as an example. Not to be taken seriously.

[kll]

haha. i've thought about this every time i've seen it. usually written in old english lettering.

[abcdefz]

I really think that stuff is so much more about drawing attention to oneself rather than any sort of "memorial." It's like when people wear T-shirts with the picture of a loved one -- it's almost an assault on the world at large. I mean, what the fuck are we supposed to do? Oh, wow, you define yourself as Grief Stricken Person; you're SPECIAL!

Stuff bugs me.

On a related note: this person's memorial notice in the paper the other day kept saying "so-and-so ascended to their Next Spiritual Level on February whatever, 2007. Before advancing to their Next Spiritual Level, so-and-so loved his nieces and nephews, whom he delighted in before advancing to his Next Spiritual Level...." etc. It sounded really desperate.

[Echewta]

I wonder if it effects the resale value of a car.

[Otis Driftwood]

On a related note: this person's memorial notice in the paper the other day kept saying "so-and-so ascended to their Next Spiritual Level on February whatever, 2007. Before advancing to their Next Spiritual Level, so-and-so loved his nieces and nephews, whom he delighted in before advancing to his Next Spiritual Level...." etc. It sounded really desperate.
Sounds like dead video game geeks. Or RPG characters: you're a level 12 druid now. But mark a ZERO for hitpoints.

[BangkokB]

you know it really makes you think.

I hate to see someone I don't know taken down much less while they're well in their prime...He or she had at least a good 2 or 3 months left in them

[Nivvie]

I really think that stuff is so much more about drawing attention to oneself rather than any sort of "memorial." It's like when people wear T-shirts with the picture of a loved one -- it's almost an assault on the world at large. I mean, what the fuck are we supposed to do? Oh, wow, you define yourself as Grief Stricken Person; you're SPECIAL!



Oh God yes.

Anyone would think that no one had ever died before, and most people would hate to think after their death they will be used as a tool to get attention.

And if someone has died in a preventable, pointless or evil way, energy is far better spent getting justice or trying to stop it happeneing to anyone else, than wailing LOOK AT MEEE!! I'M SUFFERING!

I worked a funeral two years ago where one of the aunts had had the dead child's photo laser engraved onto a load of gold pendants, and gave them out to everyone at the funeral, to wear always.
I suppose she thought she was doing the right, kind thing, but it went down like a lead balloon with most family members.

[abcdefz]

(y)

Exactly.

-- and I hate it if someone tries to make me feel like a heartless bastard because I don't want to be manipulated.

When I worked at the church, I'd often have to manage funerals, and you would not believe the bullshit people try to get away with because it's their "day of grief." Sadly, I did take pleasure sometimes in putting my foot down and seeing the look in someone's eyes. They would try to break provisions of the contract they had signed, get extra rooms at no cost because of "last minute" changes, get access to the building at any and all hours (again, breaking the contract), getting all kinds of services for free which they had declined to ask for in the proper timeframe... it was just nuts. Weddings were nearly as bad.

They weren't all that way, but for almost every single funeral or wedding there was always a moment when I was at least asked for something like that, almost testing me to see if I'd stick to the letter of the contract or not. Crazy.

[avignon]

I'm planning on making very specific guidelines in my will just in case I happen to die before my mother. She is one of the above described people.

[paul jones]

would you find it touching if your friend put:

In Loving Memory of
Your Name Here
1903-2007

on the back window of their 1993 Jimmy GMC?

I don't get it.
they could be buried in the trunk maybe(y)

[Dorothy Wood]

my will specifies that my image shall be emblazoned on all articles of clothing and any and all vehicles belonging to everyone I ever knew upon my death.