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non religious funerals

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  • #62
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,461 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    As an athiest, I'm not too pushed on a relgious ceremony. That said, I'll be dead, and I don't care what is done to my body.

    As such, I've often toyed of donating my body to medical science. Rumour is that if you pledge your body to medical science, they give you something like 7,000 euro upfront - and you can buy your body back at any time should you so wish.

    However, these plans were scotched after my friend told me his funeral plans. He wants to be pushed out into a lake on a Viking longboat and for a friend to shoot a flaming arrow from ashore onto the boat, so it burns and sinks in the lake. That's so good it hurts my face just thinking about it.


  • #63
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,043 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    NekkidBibleMan wrote: »
    As an athiest, I'm not too pushed on a relgious ceremony. That said, I'll be dead, and I don't care what is done to my body.

    As such, I've often toyed of donating my body to medical science. Rumour is that if you pledge your body to medical science, they give you something like 7,000 euro upfront - and you can buy your body back at any time should you so wish.

    However, these plans were scotched after my friend told me his funeral plans. He wants to be pushed out into a lake on a Viking longboat and for a friend to shoot a flaming arrow from ashore onto the boat, so it burns and sinks in the lake. That's so good it hurts my face just thinking about it.

    Won't happen, due to the contamination of the water table.
    The laws are pretty strict about what is and is not allowed.


  • #64
    Jazzy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    id wear gray and bring along as many ethnic minorities as possible to give the appearance of complete neutrality


  • #65
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    By any chance did they bury him in his back garden?

    Not sure but I could ask, I don't think so as it may be illegal. Why do you ask?
    NekkidBibleMan wrote: »
    As such, I've often toyed of donating my body to medical science. Rumour is that if you pledge your body to medical science, they give you something like 7,000 euro upfront - and you can buy your body back at any time should you so wish.

    Do you have any sources for this? If I sell my body to science, does that make me a prostitute? ;)


  • #66
    finlma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭finlma


    Flukey wrote: »
    Well why not do that on January 19th or May 30th or July 16th or November 23rd or whenever, instead of December 25th, if it makes no difference to you?

    I don't have 2 weeks off work on those dates.

    I bloody love Christmas and I also love not having that guilty feeling that comes with being a Christian. Enjoy mass on Christmas morning, I'll be tucking into a mince pie.


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  • #67
    eirebhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    My dad died last year and he was an atheist. There was no mass the night before the funeral but there was a short mass at his cremation. He went to the Christian Brothers school on Westland row and would have been battered by the priests back then so I can understand his views. :)


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