The funeral made me happy!

thats a pity!

 

for somebody who doesn't want an arguement you sure went about it in a strange way.
Even still, Peace.

 

Well, I have to disagree with you here. What i posted was my opinion and I still don't understand how people can be sad for the person who died, especially if they are ancient.
I understand a few tears being shed if the deceased was young and/or murdered or something.

Anyway, thai funerals are strange. When I went back for the evening ceremony, there was a presentation of cheques to all of the schools/institutons that were left money, in the temple. Weird!!!

 

Well, we are all different. That IS what makes this an interesting place to live. I'm not sure about your personal situation and I seem to have touched a raw nerve or two already.
However, I have lost people close to me and have only ever cried because of how much I missed tham, not because of what they were missing.

 

First off, I don't think of myself as a hippie, but thanks for the compliment(much better than a right wing fascist or christian fundamentalist).

Well, I haven't yet lost a parent or a sibling but I don't think that my childhood friend should be pitied because I didn't cry when he died. I just chose to believe that it was his time, and that where he went couldn't be much worse than here.

 

It's cool man. He doesn't mind, he's dead. And as you already know, my heart is made of stone.

 

Your screen-name suggests you know very little.

 

I'm still waiting to hear from the master...

 

I understand what Redyelruc was saying completely... that was a beautiful funeral you were talking about... but when people shed tears at a funeral they're not crying for what the deceased is missing... they're crying because they're missing the deceased. Which is a completely normal reaction. It's not that they would have them back. Most realize that it was their time. And they get over it in a reasonable amount of time.
If the person was suffering... most certainly it was there time to go and no one would wish them to linger on in that kind of way.

 

are people actually cutting on others for crying when people die and calling it selfish

how fucking retarded

 

celebrating can still be sad

there is everything to be sad about, loss, love

if you actually care about someone you are going to be sad when they die

like when your blow up doll with your own face on it that you fuck nightly pops you'll be sobbing

 

Death threads piss people off.

 

people who don't care enough of about people they are close to be feel sad when they die piss me off. When they over philosophize and call a natural human emotion absurd it pisses me off

there is a war in Iraq, would be a good place for them

 

I envy the naivety.

And sure Elbows irratating. But he's just a hapless pothead.

But death is something to be philosophical about. Art, death, and sex are the only three things worth thinking about.

I wish I had experienced so little loss as to think it so lightly.

 

I agree its something to be philosophical about, and it is inevitable, and it has its own beauty.

I would be sad leaving say, my girlfriend for a month, am I not going to be sad if she died?

god, riduculous

 

Yes, the funeral ceremony should recognize the death, but not of the flesh, but of the evil within

Hotwater

 

Of course you would. And it is pretty ridiculous.

But some people have to experience that pain first hand to really understand it.