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I've been to Three Funerals
- Thread starter Pamela
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mountain muscle
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Sorry to hear that Pamela... I don't remember the last funeral I had to go to. I missed my last Grandparent's funeral because of work which was very upsetting to me since she was my closest grandparent. I still hope in the near future to visit her grave and get to say goodbye to her. Though the last memory I have is the day before she went into the hospital, I was getting ready to leave back to work and gave her a hug and kiss then we said goodbye. I left for work the next day and later that day she went in the hospital and passed away.
Robert Jan
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I'm 18 but I've already been to 4 funerals.
Robert Jan
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I can't imagine what it would be like to lose a sibling at 16.
I've never lost anyone that close to me. I lost an aunt of my father who took some part in raising me but I was a bit young to understand.
I lost my paternal stepgrandmother who I saw like once a year and who I hardly communicated with, she spoke a very unusual accent of German.
I lost my maternal grandfather to leukemia, he was a rare, honest, virtuous man.
I went to the funeral of the mother of my best friend in early high school. She had been very ill with cancer before.
I've never lost anyone that close to me. I lost an aunt of my father who took some part in raising me but I was a bit young to understand.
I lost my paternal stepgrandmother who I saw like once a year and who I hardly communicated with, she spoke a very unusual accent of German.
I lost my maternal grandfather to leukemia, he was a rare, honest, virtuous man.
I went to the funeral of the mother of my best friend in early high school. She had been very ill with cancer before.
mountain muscle
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I learned so many things about her after she died. She kept scrapbooks of all the major events in her life like WW2 and the Kennedy assasination. She had a whole trunk of things from my granfather who served in WW2, the man everyone in my family says I am the most like. Never got to meet him, he died before I was born. She worked in a munitions plant during the war while my Grandpa was away. I have more questions now for her than I ever thought of asking before. Maybe someday I will get to talk to her again.
When an old person dies... a library is lost.
I forget who said this, but it is so true.
When an old person dies... a library is lost.
I forget who said this, but it is so true.
Robert Jan
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My neighbours are pretty much closed minded fundamentalist Christians.
Very kind hardworking peopleloving people besides that but damn.
They lost a daughter who drowned in a ditch when she was only like 2-3 years old.
At the funeral their priest had a speech that did not only have the usual elements,
Complaint
Comfort
Hope
that most religious funerals have, but he threw in guilt, and taunted the married couple for obviously doing something to anger the Lord so that he had to take this child.
I can't believe the cruelty in these fuckers, or the stupidity.
Very kind hardworking peopleloving people besides that but damn.
They lost a daughter who drowned in a ditch when she was only like 2-3 years old.
At the funeral their priest had a speech that did not only have the usual elements,
Complaint
Comfort
Hope
that most religious funerals have, but he threw in guilt, and taunted the married couple for obviously doing something to anger the Lord so that he had to take this child.
I can't believe the cruelty in these fuckers, or the stupidity.
mountain muscle
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Robert Jan said:
I can't believe someone would do that at a funeral. If I was the father or a friend of the family in attendance I would have had to slap the crap out of that ignorant pastor.
To me a funeral should be a clebration of someone's life and a final goodbye to them, not a jury to convict someone else of the guilt of the death. Disgusting anyone would do such a thing.
Robert Jan
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Tell me about it. He's the highest priest in the church here and most locals attend. This is common, they are all god fearing people. You can't go in this church wearing anything but black, or without a hat. They're not supposed to have TV.
Hypocrisy is all around.
There are only a handful of these communities left in this country.
Hypocrisy is all around.
There are only a handful of these communities left in this country.
mountain muscle
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Frighteningly, I would say there are more than a handful left. This is one of the reasons I am against organized religion. A small one but makes an effective enough point. Spirituality is a good thing, faith is a good thing, but the extremes I see people take it too make me worry.
Robert Jan
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Mountain Muscle said:
When I say "in this country" I mean Holland and there are really only a few left.
I agree
mountain muscle
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My bad for not looking at the flag under your Av... there are many left in this country and around the world for that matter. I cannot see the war we are currently in ever ending for precisely this type of reasoning and beliefs. To each their own. But not at the expense of my countryman's lives. Sorry to take on another issue just seemed to fit the subject.
Robert Jan
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Everyone's got an uncle that killed himself these days. I'd like to see some suicide statistics. it seems to be an epidemic.
mountain muscle
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Sorry to hear that Soklueles, my condolences. Like you said girl chin up!
Glad people chose to disregard my last post or at least points in it, just feeling fiesty tonight but don't want to get off the subject at hand. Hope you all have a good night.
Glad people chose to disregard my last post or at least points in it, just feeling fiesty tonight but don't want to get off the subject at hand. Hope you all have a good night.
Robert Jan
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It was not meant to trivialise your loss I just hear about so much suicide nowadays and it worries me. Don't always assume the worst.SoKlueles said:
