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Yeah, I actually dont dee many new headstones around here. A lot of moseleums though.
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Some people might not want a headstone. I personally see it as much more important that there are living relatives and friends to remember you and keep pictures and so on than to have a rock in a field that's rarely visited. It's just my opinion, but it feels like a waste of space - after the first few months, they really are very rarely visited. If ever.
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I've tried to find my grandmothers grave in India. She died in '61, and for whatever reason the records for the graveyard, which is attached to the small hospital she died in, are long gone.
The headstones were all badly worn, but at least it gave us an idea as to where she was, as we found two identical stones next to eath other, and we knew she was buried next to her mother who died there the year before.
It helped to have something physical there, a solid link to someone I had never met.
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How do Hindu's inter thier deceased?
Funny. I finally bought a headstone for my Grandmother last year. Though she's been gone since 1989, i still wasn't visiting the correct spot (Lotta trees along the wall, i kept laying model kits & flowers on the wrong spot. Epic Fail, ladies...)
/me respectfully drives the topic off road a moment
My brother's ashes are in his room at home. Dad hasn't... well, done much with them, yet. I know my bro wanted at least some of his ashes put into the flowers that grow around our house. I wonder when i should do this. It's really hard to talk to Dad about this...
anyway. Death is part of the Tree of Life. Pink Floyd coined such dark thoughts well enough. Go Huggle your loved ones...
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Mostly Hindi cremate the dead. There are alot of rituals involed before and after, and the remains are collected and taken to a river, often the Ganges - considered very sacred (a living incarnation of a goddess), and scattered in the water.
As for my grandmother she was a Christian, which is surprisingly common in India, and is why she was buried.
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I want one of those crazy wind-sock-man things for my headstone.
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I am taking after the Hindi, less waste of space.
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Ritten, look into one of those places that will take your ashes and heat and compress them into a synthetic diamond. Takes up even less space, and is pretty, too.
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STIll plan on being eaten.
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Peregrinus, now that is an idea, then my wife can wear me all the time.
Shik, for pleasure?
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As body disposal.
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quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: Ritten, look into one of those places that will take your ashes and heat and compress them into a synthetic diamond. Takes up even less space, and is pretty, too.
Oooh, I like that.
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Well, after I am gone Shik I guess it wouldn't matter much.
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I find the idea of wearing a dead loved on on a ring disturbing in the extreme. I plan to be cremated (burned on a pyre floating on a lake would be the coolest but that just won't happen), but, if I happen to get rich before I die, I'm rather considering cryogenics. I mean, I'm dead anyway, what have I got to lose by trying?
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Well, if I am hated by my family, I will have myself taxadermied, so that they have to look at me forever. Then again, I could get sold at a garage sale. I can see the sign now. Used husband. $25 or best offer.
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