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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
12/16/08

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I know my whole family talks about dying.

My grandma wants to have a postmortem facelift, lip injections, the works. One of her dead ex-boyfriends pre-paid for her coffin and funeral when he ran out of things to buy her.

My parents make sure to tell me at least once a week were the funeral papers are and "beautiful" the cemetery is and how they are going to be buried above ground in white marble since it would be so dark and humid underground. No this is not a joke. So um....yea, this is no shock to me.

This is one of the most normal things about my family. Oh and when I was a little kid I would want to go to a cemetery to have fun. Like from 3+ years old on. Creepy, yes. But I guess it is heredity.

Now i just had a recollection of Cartman think Kenny's ashes were chocolate milk powder and drinking them....
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zenpoet
12/16/08

@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: I love having a good sense of the morbid. I honestly want to be cremated, and then have my ashes snuck into a landscaping supply place, and be mixed in with the potting soil of a bunch of slow growing trees.

No real reason, really, it just sounds cool.
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verythrax
12/16/08

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I just can't wait for the next generation of japanese horror movies: "high school girls that gets murdered mysteriously is buried with her cellphone and send cryptic messages to her alive friends...

... that will die 7 days after receiving the message, of course" ;)
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
12/16/08

@verythrax: Wasn't that a plot already?
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Curves
12/16/08

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I lost someone I loved nearly 2 years ago and I still leave him messages online. It makes me feel better, not so disconnected. I hope that heaven has Wifi, but even if not, somehow I know that he knows and reads them.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
12/16/08

@Curves: Not to be morbid, or anything, but... You don't send read-receipts with them, do you?
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The Lab
12/16/08

@Curves: That sounds like the service where you call an answering machine and anonymously confess a secret. Makes it easier having told someone, even if no one is necessarily listening.
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Curves
12/16/08

@DeusExMach: No, I use messenger and leave off lines, not e mail. If I ever got an answer I would probably have a heart attack anyway.
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Curves
12/16/08

@The Lab: I know he gets them, somehow. I also know its just this side of "nuts" to leave messages for a dead guy, but, truly, it makes me feel better.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/16/08

@Curves: It's not nuts. It's just your way of remembering this person and keeping connected even though he's no longer here.

Now if you said that you had his body preserved and kept it in your home or something like that then I'd have to call the loony bin straight jacket squad down on you...
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ripfire
12/16/08

@Curves: Don't want to sound like a jerk or anything but it reminds me of a joke about a husband from Minneapolis who wrote an email from Florida and mistyped the email address meant for his wife and went to a widow somewhere in Houston instead.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
12/16/08

@Curves: Heaven has better than WiFi. From what I understand, they use 802.11God. I mean, think of all the techies sitting up there with lots of free time. Like they wouldn't get bored and convince God/St. Peter they need to upgrade the system and get everyone wired(less). The only bad side is that since both Steve's are still around, He's forced to use HP's.
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Curves
12/16/08

@LMAO-SteveDave loves this guy->★: In a strange co-incidence, he was an engineer at HP.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/16/08

@LMAO-SteveDave loves this guy->★: I understand their halos are equipped with bluetooth..
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/16/08

@Curves: Ok, now this is starting to get all Twilight Zoney...
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
12/16/08

@Curves: I only said HP b/c I knew their founders had passed on.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
12/16/08

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Hate to be a dick, but what is the impact on the environment of all these old batteries and tech? I was told by a cemetery worker that if flowers were left on the coffin before they closed it in the cement vault, they would eat away at the exterior of the coffin, so they had to be removed. I wonder what leaking batteries do.

My only request is that I am late to both the church and the cemetery, as I'm always late.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
12/16/08

@LMAO-SteveDave loves this guy->★: I'm just waiting for one of those batteries to be defective, and the coffin catches fire mid eulogy.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/16/08

@Lite: Crematory workers will be out of a job if that happens....
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
12/16/08

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude: Everyone knows the Internment Excavators Local 146 won't do a job that falls under International Incendiary Mass Reducers 1685's job scope.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/16/08

@LMAO-SteveDave loves this guy->★: True, but in the case of Lite's example the Interment Excavators would not have actually been working during the eulogy. They would have been paying their respects with the rest of the mourners or very likely tapping their shovels, willing the priest to talk faster so they can bury the stiff.

Interesting. I just realized how much Interment Excavators and Pr0n stars have in common....
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LordGriffin
12/16/08

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Would you need an extended death battery to go with that. (Yeah, horrible pun. I'm sorry)
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newgalactic
12/16/08

@LordGriffin: Since I would only consider this as a means to prevent being buried alive, the battery would only have to outlast the oxygen in the coffin. So no, an extended battery would not be necessary for me.

If however, you are taking the phone because you may want to make a call while traveling with the "boatman" across the river Styx, then an extended battery may be necessary.
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qbrad
12/16/08

@newgalactic: Ah, Charon Right on time... I think I'll have the crab bisque for my business venture to Hades.
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nosebleed
12/16/08

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"can you hear me now?"
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/16/08

@nosebleed: "Can you hear me now? I need your brAINZZZZZZ!!!!"
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