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It's Wednesday..we need something cheery

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by maecuff

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Here's a heartwarming little story. I know it made ME feel good. I just want to pass a little bit of sunshine on to the rest of you..

http://www.discover.com/issues/sep-06/departments/20thingsdeath/

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by gadgetgirl

I have always taken the blame for my own ruin....

GG

well, and blamed the gin, too, of course :p

by Member 25348569

It was a Royal Navy tradition that, when the corpse was wrapped in its sailcloth shroud, the last stitch was through the nose just to make sure that the sailor was really dead.

Happy Wednesday, guys... :D

by tig2

Not any too certain how to take this.

I've always said that death is a facinating subject... best studied from a distance.

While all very interesting, I still am pretty certain that I am too young to go. I have mileage to walk, darn it!

by maecuff

Although, about 10 years ago, I worked in the IT department for a Funeral Home. I didn't last long. It was depressing writing code that had to do with crypts and urns, etc. I walked out of working every day thinking "One day, I'm going to die." Besides, the sales department in at a funeral home have the slimiest group of people you can possibly imagine.

I'm just depressed because the season finale of the one and only show I watch on TV was last night. Rescue Me. It's an awesome show.

by tig2

I have a somewhat different perspective on death. That said, I doubt very much that I would work out in a funeral home environment- I don't think my personality would be a good fit.

I have completely given up following any TV series. Now if I like a series we buy it on DVD. That way we can watch when convenient. Right now we are watching Season One of 24. This is both good and bad- it is very difficult to not want to watch them all in one sitting. I refer to it as "video crack". VERY addictive.

Check your local Best Buy or Barnes and Noble for the season on disc.

The good news is that the new seasons are starting soon!

by jellimonsta

I like the sound of number 8. As long as they put my remains in some Columbian freeze dried coffee can. :)

by jck

London usually is...gray...dreary...rain...

Oh wait...I've never been to London...how is it there? ;)

by jck

The intertropical convergence zone crosses Central American and a lot of the heating from the Mexican desert helps kick up the regular hurricanes out SW of the Baja Peninsula.

Great name on that first hurricane in the pacific they have listed, eh? :D

by maxwell edison

.....after seeing that catchy title.

I about died laughing when I saw the article.

I hope the link never expires.

I'll be sure to pass on the link to others.

I'll keep it handy, and not bury it anywhere.

by maecuff

I want to watch. I got hooked on Rescue Me when my husband bought the first season for me for my birthday. I watched the whole season in three nights, went out and bought the second season and finished just before the 3rd season started. Unfortunately, this show BEGINS in May, so I have months to go..

The funeral home job was horrid for many reasons. Not the least being my first and only problem with sexual harrasment (by the VP of IT)

by hydrus187

In 3rd world nations such as Haiti and the Dominican Republic, they bury above ground and seal the crypt with cement.

Rest assured with a month later, the remains in public burial grounds are dug up and rob of clothing, etc...

I like the European freezed dried environmental friendly idea myself.

by maecuff

Nope, that's not the place. However, in my office, there was a boarded up vent on the desk behind my wall. My office had once been the crematory and the boarded up spot was the coal shute. So..that means I spent my days in the spot where many people had been burned up. Yuck.

They also had this HUGE heavy rolling pin in the supply closet. Years ago, when they used coal to cremate the bodies, it didn't get hot enough to burn all the bones to ash, so they used that rolling pin to crush what was left over. Why did they have that in IT? I really don't know. Oh, and this was a family business, way back then, it was the KIDS job to use the rolling pin. Talk about nightmares...

by ontheropes

I?ve delivered one-size-fits-all corrugated paper caskets to a Tri-state crematorium, several times. Since the caskets were never easy to unload I spent hours, [b]too much time[/b], there talking to the people that work there while work was ?in progress? About all I?ll say about that besides, ?lock ?em all up and lose the key?, is that I?ve no plans to be cremated after I die anymore. I used to, not now. I?m not really the squeamish sort, you?ll have to take my word on that, but some people are just wrong.

I know that certain jobs require a different viewpoint. I?ve had a couple of those jobs. There is ?different=good? and ?different=bad?.
Collectively, that bunch is a really [b]strange[/b] bunch. They?re stranger than any mortician, EMT, ambulance driver, coroner, wrecker driver, shrink, cop or firefighter that I?ve ever met and that's saying something because I?ve met a few. I?ve also spent a small bit of time dealing with criminally insane and just plain insane or mentally ill people. In my unprofessional opinion, that crematorium group has more in common with the criminally insane than anyone else.

I feel a need to wash my brain.

by storch

Thanks Maecuff,

It's almost September, which is not too soon to start getting ready for the Halloween season. You just kicked it off early.

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