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Thread ID: 102708	2009-08-29 23:16:00	Cremation - ashes etc	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
805221	2009-08-30 10:49:00	Deepest sympathy on the loss of your Dad.	Marnie (4574)
805222	2009-08-30 12:11:00	wellyg: Let,s face it - not everyone is consciencious and thorough in their workplace, so I just wondered if there was a foolproof system in place.?	blanco (11336)
805223	2009-08-30 21:15:00	You can always practice the Viking Funeral arrangements if you need to know that your loved one is the only person in the pyre: 1) Place recently deceased person ("recently" is the preferred operative here) in long wooden rental boat, lashed to the foremast or rudder is the prescribed position but is immaterial to final effect 2) Load fire wood, gasoline, diesel fuel and other fire accelerators into boat around passenger 3) Place small candle with a 15-minute wick in the boat, inside a pan of fuel, 4) Light candle, protected from drafts and splashing water . 5) Push boat into prevailing wind to ensure it goes away from land . 6) Watch for smoke 7) Hoist multiple flagons of fermented mead (Mjöd) in final respect Or the Aleut-Eskimo practice: 1) Take one village old person who should be most likely to die next 2) Place said person on a small ice floe, about two times larger than the height of the old person when lying down . 3) Obtain 5lbs of comestible blubber, a knife, some firewood, three matches and place all on ice floe 4) Push ice floe with entire cargo including old person into current to insure that it goes away from shore . 5) Go whale or seal hunting in final respects . Various cultures had their own funerary processes: Muslim funeral biers, Roman "cena novendialis", Entombing in sepulchers, Mummification, The Japanese act of Matsugo-no-mizu and then the six coins on the deceased's chest to pay the fee to cross The River Of Three Hells, The Zoroastrian excarnation - like the American Indians - (who) left the dead exposed to be eaten by wild animals and insects since the Zoroastrian believes that fire is sacred and should not be defiled by cremating a human body . I think the Indians were just too lazy to dig a hole . My mom, (until she died first) was worried that my dad would precede her (but he didn't) and thought that there was only one way to keep his retirement and Social Security checks coming in - she'd have him stuffed in a standing position and animated with a beer glass in his hand . She would - on alternate days - then push him to the front window of the house and plug him in and he'd hoist the beer to his lips, simulating his favorite pastime . The neighbors would see that and think he was still alive - and so would the authorities and that way the checks would still come in the mail . |~~~| I remember going to my uncle Ed's funeral - Olde Italian-type who had the whole "Piatto di spaghetti": an open coffin, hired wailers, 24-hour wake, crying, screaming, shaking the body and placing mirrors under his nostrils to see if he might somehow still be breathing . When the casket was being lowered into the grave, the top was still opened and all the relatives threw coins, rosaries, prayer books and such into it . The brothers (he had four) were all trying to out-do each other with larger and larger dollars - it started off with $10s, then went to $20s and then $100s . Finally one brother "Charlie" wrote a check for twenty five million dollars and tossed that in . He won but Uncle Ed never cashed it for some reason .	SurferJoe46 (51)
805224	2009-08-31 06:21:00	Thanks Guys Thanks for the sympathy and kind thoughts. My Dad had a good innings 86 years, the last 10 or so as a PC user ! with my help and from here - eg Hi-Jack This etc. Thanks also for the comments and links on how the cremation process works. Regards Digby	Digby (677)
805225	2009-08-31 11:18:00	wellyg: Let,s face it - not everyone is consciencious and thorough in their workplace, so I just wondered if there was a foolproof system in place.? I would really damn hope so! D:	wellyg33k (11804)
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