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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSB who wrote (15241)	1/13/1998 2:16:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Oh, this is a miracle!! I finally have understood one of your mysterious, obscure (word of the day) jokes!!! Um, what can I say? You certainly don't need teeth to gum a banana, or something, but I think having teeth might make you more MARKETABLE. I mean, there is little more pathetic than a prostitute who can't get a "date". Incidentally, I'd like to throw in my two cents on the gravestone discussion, Mike. Unless you decide to be cremated, your gravestone is your final statement, your last chance to say something profound, loving, funny or whatever. I was considering cremation until I realized that visiting my grandmother's grave gave me great comfort after she died, and I want to do the same for the people I leave behind. So what it says, what it looks like, would ideally be the very essence of me, and has very little to do with having a belief in the hereafter, for pagans and atheists. Last year at Ask God, I was saying that I had read about a new graveyard in northern England, on a bluff overlooking the ocean as I recall, where when you die your body is wrapped in a shroud--no embalming, no coffin--and buried with a pine seedling on top of you, so that as your body returns to nature it fertilizes the tree, and eventually there is a beautiful new pine forest. There is much in that which appeals to me. Then Del wrote a post back, saying something like he wanted to be bured under an apple seed, which would grow into a tree, and his grandchildren would end up eating apple pie from the tree while they watched videos of their dear, departed grandfather. (Del, please excuse me if I've mixed up any of what you said.) Anyway, I thought that was a beautiful idea, celebrating the cycles of life.