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Alternatives to Mass

  • 15-01-2012 6:58pm
    #1
    juliet38
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭


    Hey there,

    First time posting here! I'm wondering if any of you guys have ever taken part in or organised an alternative to an anniversary mass such as a humanist remembrance ceremony or something along those lines? Have an important anniversary coming up and of course it is being marked with a catholic mass by the rest of the family. The person who died was pretty apathetic towards religion so it seems hypocritical to me to mark their passing with a mass just because it's the done thing. I was thinking that if i could come up with a viable alternative, I could convince them to do something different. Any suggestions?


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  • #2
    Michael Nugent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Michael Nugent


    I would suggest contacting the Humanist Association of Ireland.

    They have members who conduct secular ceremonies and I am sure they would be able to arrange something suitable.


  • #3
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    If people wanted to do that after I'm gone, then dinner and cocktails. That's want I'd want them to do.
    It's what I'd do if I were still alive. :)


  • #4
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    +1 for a knees-up. Anniversary mass is always a dreadfully boring affair. Completely the wrong way to go about celebrating anything except dull dreariness. You want drinkies, cocktail sausages, humorously photoshopped images of the deceased. Possibly music. But definitely cocktail sausages. Can't go wrong with cocktail sausages.


  • #5
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    i've seen a couple of american movies where a dead guy gets laid out in his coffin on a pool table in a bar and everyone has a good old knees up to send him off. i'd fancy something like that myself, although it would be logistically quite awkward on subsequent anniversaries of my death, but feck it that's someone else's problem to sort out! :D


  • #6
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    juliet38 wrote: »
    First time posting here! I'm wondering if any of you guys have ever taken part in or organised an alternative to an anniversary mass such as a humanist remembrance ceremony or something along those lines?
    On what would have been my granddad's 100th birthday -- he'd died six months shy -- a bunch of us met in a pub in the city center and spent the evening drinking more than was good for us.

    Simple but effective and no priests were involved.


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  • #7
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    robindch wrote: »
    Simple but effective and no priests were involved.
    as far as you can remember. ;)


  • #8
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,989 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    vibe666 wrote: »
    as far as you can remember. ;)
    If he can't remember, then it was definitely effective :)


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