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He's been dead for a year, but they're burying his ashes today. It's pretty depressing, and I know his wife/widow is gonna do something to make me feel totally awkward.
So SE++, bury anyone lately?
Share some awkward as hell/sad as balls family stories
I cannot watch the movie Ratatouille because it was the last movie my mother saw and talked about with me the night she died.
Why are you getting the ashes a year after he died?
They've been with his wife all this time, I've never seen seen the urn.
Her friends, and my family, and I all felt that it was totally unhealthy for her to be keeping it in the house, and people wanted a place they could go to see his grave and stuff.
After much deliberation she decided to bury the ashes in a local cemetery.
They might just be being interred. A friend of mine's dad's ashes were interred at their family plot a couple years ago, just kinda put up on a fancy shelf in the cemetery protected from the elements.
Oh and apparently you can get a fine if you "spread the ashes" in certain places.
She was really gung-ho about spreading them, but nobody else wanted that.
The burial thing just came up a few weeks ago, before this they were gonna plant a tree, never heard what came of that plan.
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al gore came from that plan
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Just_Bri_ThanksSeething with ragefrom a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPAregular
edited April 2010
A lot of cemeteries have a building where one would store urns. Unlike Smart Hero's example, these are pretty much like lockers that are bolted closed with the name of the person engraved on the cover, and a ring next to it for bouquets of flowers.
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...and when you are done with that; take a folding
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Incidentally I hear there are a lot of irritating rules dealing with how and when you can bury people/spread ashes/etc.
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Vargas PrimeKing of NothingJust a ShowRegistered Userregular
edited April 2010
My grandfather and my fiancee's grandmother both passed away on the same day last week. That was pretty rough.
My grandfather has had Alzheimer's for the better part of the last 10 years, and for the last couple, he's been almost completely checked out, so in a way it was pretty relieving to see him finally peaceful.
I was completely fine until his old navy friends came to give the VFW service at the evening wake. I broke down like a little girl.
Sorry about your dad, Stale, and I hope your (stepmom?) doesn't make you feel odd.
3 of my grandparents died when I was real young, so didn't really have many memories of their deaths. My favorite uncle however died a year and a half ago after dealing with a brain tumor for 7 months. I manged to see him before he died; he was bed ridden and crapping in a diaper, unable to talk.
I told him my favorite memory was when he taught me how to make tits using a towel. He laughed and I started crying. It really sucks seeing an awesome 6'4 giant reduced to nothing like that. He looked/acted exactly like George Carlin, just bigger.
Muse Among MenSuburban Bunny Princess?Its time for a new shtick Registered Userregular
edited April 2010
The only funeral I can remember was the burial of our neighbor Don Gangster. That night we had searchlights circling above our house and cops at the end of street keeping an eye on our neighbors house, because the entirety of his gang had come to pay their respects.
The only funeral I can remember was the burial of our neighbor Don Gangster. That night we had searchlights circling above our house and cops at the end of street keeping an eye on our neighbors house, because the entirety of his gang had come to pay their respects.
what are the odds that a guy named Don Gangster was actually a Don Gangster
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The only funeral I can remember was the burial of our neighbor Don Gangster. That night we had searchlights circling above our house and cops at the end of street keeping an eye on our neighbors house, because the entirety of his gang had come to pay their respects.
what are the odds that a guy named Don Gangster was actually a Don Gangster
he's actually a Pokémon
he can only say Don Gangster
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Muse Among MenSuburban Bunny Princess?Its time for a new shtick Registered Userregular
The only funeral I can remember was the burial of our neighbor Don Gangster. That night we had searchlights circling above our house and cops at the end of street keeping an eye on our neighbors house, because the entirety of his gang had come to pay their respects.
what are the odds that a guy named Don Gangster was actually a Don Gangster
Nah, he was Don [name]. But he was a gangster, a really old one. 80ish I think, or older. All tatted up and white-mustached and an amputee to boot. I never thought of him as a particularly colorful character when he was alive, he generally liked to sit and sun himself and his cats, but it wasn't as if I was really allowed over there anyway, though we had good relations with the family. But being a gangster from the 1940s (zoot suits and everything I suspect), he must have had some great stories.
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Raneadospolice apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered Userregular
edited April 2010
you should have been friends with him and "gotten taken care of"
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i'm sorry for your loss
More of a "crappy family situations that are soul-burningly awkward" thread
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
sorry for your dad, staleghoti
Why are you getting the ashes a year after he died?
doesn't that defeat the whole purpose pf cremation?
no, that's the whole point of being a skit show
They've been with his wife all this time, I've never seen seen the urn.
Her friends, and my family, and I all felt that it was totally unhealthy for her to be keeping it in the house, and people wanted a place they could go to see his grave and stuff.
After much deliberation she decided to bury the ashes in a local cemetery.
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of a raneados post?
She was really gung-ho about spreading them, but nobody else wanted that.
The burial thing just came up a few weeks ago, before this they were gonna plant a tree, never heard what came of that plan.
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
make a thread about it
I appreciate this post
al gore
al gore came from that plan
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Incidentally I hear there are a lot of irritating rules dealing with how and when you can bury people/spread ashes/etc.
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he says he doesn't care what we do with the ashes, he'll be dead and he won't care
He was cremated cause his wife was too cheap to get a coffin and bury him.
And she was uber-against burying him last year for some reason. She one of these people who makes a decision, won't budge, but also won't explain why.
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
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I used to
then my dad died and now she's pretty loopy, and greedy.
No time to get into that tho, gotta go do this thang.
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
My grandfather has had Alzheimer's for the better part of the last 10 years, and for the last couple, he's been almost completely checked out, so in a way it was pretty relieving to see him finally peaceful.
I was completely fine until his old navy friends came to give the VFW service at the evening wake. I broke down like a little girl.
Sorry about your dad, Stale, and I hope your (stepmom?) doesn't make you feel odd.
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that is also the very first thing I thought
my grandpa remarried a few years ago. the lady he married resembles in demeanor a small, frightened bird.
she's afraid of everything, and hates spending money
Is she tight?
like a tiger
he didn't even have the good sense to find a trophy wife!
I told him my favorite memory was when he taught me how to make tits using a towel. He laughed and I started crying. It really sucks seeing an awesome 6'4 giant reduced to nothing like that. He looked/acted exactly like George Carlin, just bigger.
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phoooooaaarrrrrwwww
what are the odds that a guy named Don Gangster was actually a Don Gangster
he's actually a Pokémon
he can only say Don Gangster
Nah, he was Don [name]. But he was a gangster, a really old one. 80ish I think, or older. All tatted up and white-mustached and an amputee to boot. I never thought of him as a particularly colorful character when he was alive, he generally liked to sit and sun himself and his cats, but it wasn't as if I was really allowed over there anyway, though we had good relations with the family. But being a gangster from the 1940s (zoot suits and everything I suspect), he must have had some great stories.
meaning $$$ not death