Disfellowshiping dead people (page 2)

AK - Jeff

I have not heard of it happening - but I know of Witlesses that think it could.

Once, while a fresh lad in the organization, a pioneer sister and I were talking out in service. The subject of suicide came up - she expressed her greatest fear in the matter was not dying at her own hand [don't worry folks she is still alive 35 years later], but rather that she would be disfellowshipped 'in abstensia'.

So whether it would ever happen or not - this kind of thinking makes one subject to the foolish teachings of the WTS - even taking the idea to the grave perhaps.

Jeff

Abandoned

They might, however - consider Disassociation in that case.

Yeah, I could picture this...

Elder Lifer: I think we should announce that Brother Hasabrain has dissasociated himself from the congregation.

Elder Showingdoubts: What are you talking about, he died last week.

Elder Lifer: That may be the case, but that's no reason to slack off on serving Jehovah.

Elder Readytoleave: OK, that's it. I'm getting dumber just listening to this...

Fangorn

I know that this question was once submitted to Bethel by some real idiots, they were told to forget it, the guy was dead, end of story.

candidlynuts

silly as it sounds... i HAVE known of people who have died who were all but reinstated.

one guy died disfellowshipped and an elder gave his eulogy and other than the 90 second stats on the body and 30 minute recruitment script they also mentioned that he had been working towards reinstatement and thats why they felt ok about an elder giving the eulogy. dunno what the worldy people in the audience thought about it.. we witnesses in the audience didnt know what to think about it!

SusanHere

Jim TX

P.S. This sorta reminds me of the Mormons who will get their long-dead relatives 'baptized' (with someone else standing in for them), so that they can be 'bonded' together for eternity (or somesuch). My question to that practice is... What if the dead relative/person doesn't WANT to be baptized as a Mormon?

Jim, the answer is: They are free to reject it. Some do. It's their choice. We only provide the opportunity for them to be able to make the choice.

Susan

oldflame

It would not surprise me one bit, after all the mormons baptise the dead !

SirNose586

So if I'm dead and df'd does that mean that my family can't talk to my grave unless it's a family emergency? Do witnesses passing through the graveyard have to run away and avoid eye contact with my headstone?

If I were cremated, would they just put my urn in a garage or something, so they don't have to look at my urn all the time?

zagor

Naa, asking something like that would suggest to me that she is nutcase so I'm not sure how much of the rest of her story I'm inclined to believe ... But I've seen similar nutcases before so I'm not surprised she said that lol

NeonMadman

It seems to me that I once heard about a person who was disfellowshipped and then died between the times of JC meeting and the actual announcement (which was made even though elders knew the person was dead). But I can't recall the details...

Jim_TX

Susan said - Jim, the answer is: They are free to reject it. Some do. It's their choice. We only provide the opportunity for them to be able to make the choice.

Huh? How can a dead person 'reject it' ? They're dead.

My understanding - when I toured the local Mormon tabernacle (or whatever they call it) was that a living relative - if they decided that they wanted their long-dead relly to be 'forever joined' to the other family members, in the afterlife - could get baptized - for that dead person. There wasn't any 'asking' the dead person if they wanted this.

Even if there was... well... I don't think that they would answer.

Regards,

Jim TX

Disfellowshiping dead people

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