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TreasonousBastard

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5. Dealing with grief is the primary thing...

Reply to cbayer (Reply #4)

Wed Aug 20, 2014, 03:37 AM

Aug 2014

and the belief in an afterlife helps deal with it-- makes death not so final.

I'm not sure how many actually believe, but if and when we "officially" decide there is no heaven or hell, I wonder how that will affect our view of death.

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Burying Your Dead Without Religion [View all] cbayer Aug 2014 OP

I can't think of a good reason not to do that, but... TreasonousBastard Aug 2014 #1

It wouldn't appeal to me, but I know quite a few people who have remembrance tattoos cbayer Aug 2014 #2

That's a little wierd, but I do remember... TreasonousBastard Aug 2014 #3

I've been to a couple of those as well. cbayer Aug 2014 #4

Dealing with grief is the primary thing... TreasonousBastard Aug 2014 #5

It is comforting to think that someone is not completely gone, cbayer Aug 2014 #6

Sometimes the corpse became a dance partner at a wake. Not my style, though do have Mnemosyne Aug 2014 #7

Tim Finnegan's wake TexasProgresive Aug 2014 #8

A bit macabre perhaps, but as a Catholic TexasProgresive Aug 2014 #9

Seems very simple and straightforward. cbayer Aug 2014 #12

The difficult bit with my mother was arranging a Master of Ceremonies intaglio Aug 2014 #10

That's surprising. With such a large non-believing population, I would have expected cbayer Aug 2014 #11

A lot more tradition intaglio Aug 2014 #13

It wouldn't matter to me, but I know that some people feel very strongly about it. cbayer Aug 2014 #14

When someone I care about dies, my concern isn't about that person. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #15