shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Aug 7, 2014 18:49:52 GMT -5
I'm in far worse health than my wife. It's practically a given that I'll go first and, unless I do a better job at changing my lifestyle, well before my time. However, I've spent a long time emotionally preparing myself to be a widower, only because it's pretty much the scariest thing I could imagine ever happening to me and, as with a zombie infestation, it helps to be prepared.
In terms of burial wishes, I'd love to opt out of getting pumped full of chemicals and having someone do post-death cosmetic surgery on me, but I think you have to do the chemicals in most states. I should look this up. It's weird...I know it's just an empty shell after you die, but having it treated right still matters to me. I was the same way when my mother sold the home I grew up in.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 7, 2014 19:19:26 GMT -5
My wife is on her way to the Avenged Sevenfold/Korn concert here. Thank goodness she's found a friend to go with. Neither band is my kind of music much at all. I like Avenged's song Dear God, but that's only one song. The last concert of theirs I went with her to back in 2011 was outside at the OKC Zoo amphitheater, so the blaring loud music wasn't so bad. And thank the gods they served beer. $10 beers, but beers none the less.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 7, 2014 19:52:25 GMT -5
I'm in far worse health than my wife. It's practically a given that I'll go first and, unless I do a better job at changing my lifestyle, well before my time. However, I've spent a long time emotionally preparing myself to be a widower, only because it's pretty much the scariest thing I could imagine ever happening to me and, as with a zombie infestation, it helps to be prepared. In terms of burial wishes, I'd love to opt out of getting pumped full of chemicals and having someone do post-death cosmetic surgery on me, but I think you have to do the chemicals in most states. I should look this up. It's weird...I know it's just an empty shell after you die, but having it treated right still matters to me. I was the same way when my mother sold the home I grew up in. I have always said to my family that I want to be cremated when I pass on. But I want to be cremated on a funeral pyre like Valeria in Conan the Barbarian . I also want all my comics to be burned with me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 20:54:53 GMT -5
I might want to be cremated when I go. Just not sure I would like my remains buried in the ground for X amount of years. Plus, it would probably be cheaper for whoever is handling the aftermath of it all. Often I've wondered how long I would want to live. Some people want to live forever, which I think would be a curse. I'd say I'd be happy if I reached 80-85. I would still want to see mankind improve as much as it could. But at the same time I wouldn't want to live so long that it would be painful to keep myself alive. Kind of the reason why I've gotten back into fitness lately since I'll be 30 in a few years. I know my wife has expressed the notion that when we both get old, she would like to be the one that dies first so she won't have to bear the burden of my absence. Factoing in family history, general health & finances (or the lack thereof) ... early to mid-60s is probably optimal for me.
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 7, 2014 21:19:37 GMT -5
I'm fine with being put in a gunny-sack and tossed in a drainage ditch. Are we still talking funerals, or was that just a random statement?
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 7, 2014 21:23:10 GMT -5
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 7, 2014 21:40:22 GMT -5
I also want all my comics to be burned with me. That makes me sad...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 22:27:56 GMT -5
I have always said to my family that I want to be cremated when I pass on. But I want to be cremated on a funeral pyre like Valeria in Conan the Barbarian . I also want all my comics to be burned with me. I have to check into the legality of this. Just because nobody seems to be doing it doesn't mean it can't be done, right?
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 7, 2014 23:10:18 GMT -5
My wife is on her way to the Avenged Sevenfold/Korn concert here. Thank goodness she's found a friend to go with. Neither band is my kind of music much at all. I like Avenged's song Dear God, but that's only one song. The last concert of theirs I went with her to back in 2011 was outside at the OKC Zoo amphitheater, so the blaring loud music wasn't so bad. And thank the gods they served beer. $10 beers, but beers none the less. I'm having flashbacks to my middle school concert days. I actually saw Korn in concert in the 8th grade. I was the only sober person there.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 8, 2014 7:56:07 GMT -5
I have always said to my family that I want to be cremated when I pass on. But I want to be cremated on a funeral pyre like Valeria in Conan the Barbarian . I also want all my comics to be burned with me. I have to check into the legality of this. Just because nobody seems to be doing it doesn't mean it can't be done, right? I'm thinking it's illegal for health reasons.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 9:23:45 GMT -5
Yeah. Burning comics is surely against the law.
Oh ... burning Icctrombone's corpse on a pyre? Big deal. Pretend he climbed onto a big pile of combustible material & then succumbed to spontaneous human combustion.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 9:27:21 GMT -5
That could pretty much pass for my brood. The ginger cat looks like Sandy, one of the four tuxies (with 10 lbs. added) could be Bucky, the tortie on the left front of the bed really resembles Sophie, the yawning cat resembles Allie & another of the tuxies could be Sweet Jane (though she has tortie coloring as well).
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 8, 2014 9:37:28 GMT -5
You might at least want to make arrangements for your cats. I'm hoping they'll find a home with fellow fans. To sweeten the offer, each cat will come with approximately 3,000 comics. I'm not sure they could make it here to New England with long boxes in tow, but if they can, Sign me up On the subject matter at hand, even though it's silly, deep down inside I hope to live longer enough so that we as a society figure out either a) Immortality or b) downloading people into robots.
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Post by puma on Aug 8, 2014 10:56:56 GMT -5
I just don't want to go before pets I may have at the time.
and Hi all, it's been a while.
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 8, 2014 11:39:14 GMT -5
I just don't want to go before pets I may have at the time. and Hi all, it's been a while. Hey puma. Nice to see you here too.
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