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Thread ID: 142771	2016-09-07 00:31:00	Why don't they tell it like it is?	Roscoe (6288)	PC World Chat

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1425726	2016-09-07 10:45:00	And when my husband died - well, he was dead - and then we threw him into the lake.... :eek: Please say you cremated him first! I think 'passed away' is used more for end of life deaths, while 'died' is for untimely deaths.	Jen (38)
1425727	2016-09-07 11:01:00	Well, yes we did! Cremated him first, that is. The lake was a favourite place that we sailed and fished on often - so it was very appropriate. A fairly traumatic day, the scattering of the ashes. Which is probably why I make the most of the 'story'. But I still feel very uncomfortable with people 'passing'.	R.M. (561)
1425728	2016-09-07 22:11:00	I hear so many people, when talking about someone who died, that he "passed away." Why can't they tell it like it is and just say that he died? Is that just another case of being PC? What a load of rubbish. Which ever way you look at it, he's dead! There's no getting away from that fact. So why do these people try to make it into something that it isn't? They also talk about "his passing." Let's get real. If he died, if he's dead, why not face reality and say so. Depends - How personal a person's death is to you, and the nature of the death, and whom you are relating to (think child - and murder or suicide or drug overdose or killed in car crash) when saying it. I have known some - including close family members that fit all four. If a young niece asks me today - What happened to Uncle" "- she will get oh he passed away or was taken. Maybe I''ll use died...but then they question more, and because I could have somehow helped in those circumstances...it ends there. Bedridden people much easier to use anything rather than euphemisms...and detail things if asked.	kahawai chaser (3545)
1425729	2016-09-07 23:30:00	I prefer " kicked the bucket" to "passed on" :banana I also get uncomfortable with "scattering ashes", seems pointless to me, and they can blow back in your face! Though I did 'scatter' my Dad's ashes under a tree on a hill in Shropshire to satisfy my mother. Otherwise I've just put them in the council rubbish sack to go down the tip. :devil	Terry Porritt (14)
1425730	2016-09-07 23:40:00	We are what we think, on top of that we have no free will.	Cicero (40)
1425731	2016-09-08 00:41:00	I also get uncomfortable with "scattering ashes", seems pointless to me, and they can blow back in your face! I threatened my two sons and said that I didn't want to spend the next year scrubbing the yacht . . . There were the odd funny moments, and there was the odd hitch . I've never heard of any 'Scattering of ashes' that didn't have some sort of hiccup . All you can do is laugh .	R.M. (561)
1425732	2016-09-08 05:37:00	I'm leaving my mortal remains to Auckland Uni Med School, and they can do what they want - marvel at a liver that against all odds still functioned, a brain that didn't etc. Just as I'm not around to hear the wisecracks of the med students, I don't really care. I would long since have kicked the bucket, croaked my last, skidded off this mortal coil ... :devil	WalOne (4202)
1425733	2016-09-08 06:55:00	I'm leaving my mortal remains to Auckland Uni Med School, and they can do what they want - marvel at a liver that against all odds still functioned, a brain that didn't etc. Just as I'm not around to hear the wisecracks of the med students, I don't really care. I would long since have kicked the bucket, croaked my last, skidded off this mortal coil ... :devil Can you be sure that won't hear.?	Cicero (40)
1425734	2016-09-08 07:21:00	Can you be sure that won't hear.? :eek:	WalOne (4202)
1425735	2016-09-08 08:42:00	My Dad was a keen fisherman, he asked that his ashes be scattered on a dam where he caught a lot of fish. He said that as he had eaten a lot of them, it was only fair that they had the chance to eat him :)	mzee (3324)
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