You want a ceremony, do it while my body is still a body. If you gotta put me in a box, and *have* to hold a ceremony, fine, but cover it with a pretty cloth, and put a picture of me in front of it.
Someone I worked with told me about one funeral he went to where the deceased was simply lying on a bier, covered with a sheet to his neck - and the deceased was a badly-wasted PWA, so this was SO not attractive. I think a shrink-wrapped Box O' BoneBitstm would've squicked me almost as badly. I don't think you're overreacting at all.
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Date: 2004-08-25 10:40 pm (UTC)Someone I worked with told me about one funeral he went to where the deceased was simply lying on a bier, covered with a sheet to his neck - and the deceased was a badly-wasted PWA, so this was SO not attractive. I think a shrink-wrapped Box O' BoneBitstm would've squicked me almost as badly. I don't think you're overreacting at all.