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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
My dream is to die with absolutely nothing but massive bank debt. I have no living relatives, so there is no one to get the money from. I mean, "Hello Mr. Twat you have terminal cancer" next stop is the bank to take out the biggest loan my excellent credit will let me get. Tom Selleck the house go to Vegas bet it all on black until it's gone return home and burn the house down around me fuck the bank...a boy can dream lol
Graveyards are a waste of space & good land. Land is for the living. Cremation is the way; it is clean, responsible, & considerate.
. I'd rather be harvested for any useful organs if I have any left healthy enough to save someone, then the rest of me thrown in some kind of corpse compost or bio reactor or something.
Yes, but the whole thing isn't about you but about the people you leave behind. It helps me a lot that I can visit the place where I buried my father's ashes and tell him about what is going on and how live is currently. I miss him a lot.
For every person like you there may be a person like me that couldn’t care less to visit a grave. I can remember my fallen ones from anywhere.
Don’t want to sound callous but if you’re dead you’re dead to me too, like it’s a part of life. Just accept it and move on. I’m gonna die one day whoop whoop.
Maybe as a compromise, then, the people who care can do the thing and the people who don’t don’t have to?
Sure, but if the argument is that graveyards take to much valuable space that could be used to house living humans.
Perhaps people should keep ashes in their own gardens etc and you can alsways go and do the things you do.
To be transparent, this isn’t something I have given a lot of thought to until I saw this thread.
Suppose so, I feel like they’re pretty low on the list of land we could reclaim tho. Would rather go after golf courses first for example
Oh I agree that golf courses would be a priority. The same for office blocks where people can work from home.
I’m with mark twain on golf, it’s a good walk spoiled 😂
Something I think I've seen in movies (mostly ones implied to be ancient japan) is a family grave. A single pillar driven into the ground with the family name and then everyone is cremated or something. Notable individuals for the family get a pillar next to it, but this could be a solution as first world countries reach the point where space is a premium. This allows families to mourn recently, and not-so-recently deceased.
Cyberpunk has the Columbariums - huge columns of thousands of cremated individuals, with a digital display for your Epitaph and name
I'd like my ashes to go into a firework and be spread out all over my local area. Go out with a bang!
Clean? I would have said burial was more environmentally friendly.
If they didn’t pump the bodies full of toxic chemicals and store them indefinitely in a piece of furniture, maybe.
Those targeted ads aren't messing around
Edit: Personally I've already got an urn picked out for me. A probably too large coffee can of my favorite coffee brand.
I'd prefer it not get used for my ashes for at least a few more decades though.
Is there a Ralphs nearby?
Come on, man. Fuck it. Let’s go bowling.
You never see these meme quality ads with a € or £ price... its always $
I don't care what happens to my corpse, because I'll be dead then. Never understood, why people still care nowadays, religion I guess.
Ritual and ceremony are deeply important aspects of the human experience. What cultures do with their dead is way, way up there with foodways and adornment when it comes to cultural significance.
The increasingly common view in the West that elaborate death rites are unimportant is really new when compared to the rest of human history. It's probably a postmodern thing? If I'm right about that, that would mean the less reverential attitude towards traditional deatg ceremony is like 110ish years old.
Compared to the 200,000-300,000 years Homo Sapiens have been around (or 45,000 years ago if we only want to discuss the length of time that Northern European-style deathways have most likely been practiced), 100 years isn't a lot to change that cultural inertia.
Sorry, I know this is a Wendy's. Just a frosty, thanks.
You can have the ceremony without being ripped off for thousands of dollars on a box nobody will ever see again
Why the fuck have you been downvoted, that's just a reasonable comment.
May I also point out, your funeral isn't for you. You might not care what happens to your body but your close ones do. A funeral is a place for them to find closure, to grief and mourn your loss. The mere fact that people who cannot retrieve their lost one's body feel awfully about it and still tend to create empty graves should show how much this is a very old desire of importance. The way we perform these death rituals can change and maybe it is not about how a body is being get rid off per se, and surely we could change this. That we as a species are aware of what death means and have found ways to cope with it (i.e. rituals as a coping way to deal with the knowledge) is incredible.
Whenever people say something along these lines of "just throw me in the trash" it feels to me like they didn't get that point. It's not about you. It's about everyone else.
When I'm dead just throw me in the trash
Casket+ includes a lid! Only $59.99/hour (surge pricing if used between hours of 10pm and 8am)
Don't you love your dead relatives? Or are you cheap?
Cremation. Tubes for ashes. Instructions to friends and family where to toss me and maybe plant a tree.
I want my remains spread at the happiest place on Earth, Disneyland.
Also, I don’t want to be cremated.
Sky burial. Just chop me up and feed me to the vultures
Sky burial. Throw me out of an airplane.
Sky burial. Throw me in a wood chipper.
We probably gonna wait till you’re dead but fine
Reddit is desperate for ads.
Just take that $22 per month and invest it instead. You'd come out on top
My grandpa handmade his coffin with some really nice walnut. Quilted the inside I believe. He's still kicking, so it gets used as a prop at Halloween
Death will be a subscription
It is, Grave plots are temporary.
Costco sells caskets. Seriously. Order one online on the cheap.
Best part? They have multiple (positive) reviews.
who is leaving those reviews? satisfied customers? Is internet access available to Costco customers after death?
Better buy one now before they’re subscription only.
Caskets really need some design updates. They look so depressing.
Bury me in this:
Hmm why aren't RGB coffins a legit thing? These casket makers need to get with the times and understand their audience lol
Hit me up when you die and I'll set you up a wooden box for $22 straight up, just a once time payment.
It's actually something good to invest in. My wife's grandmother did it in like the 80s, and all the family had to do was pick out sandwiches for the wake.
My dad really wasnt much of a dad, when my grandmother died and he got left a little money we had a pretty frank conversation "I never expected you to leave me a cent, because I never expected you to have one. So do me a favor, prepay your funeral with some of this money then piss the rest up the wall for all I care. Just dont stick me with a bill when you go."