Where do you go to die?

by wasasister 82 Replies latest jw friends

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  Free2Bme

  mmmmm
  Sorry to digress but this thread is skidding all over anyway so here goes..
  Watched the box last night and some comment was made about a research project done about homosexuality where they found that homophobics exposed to gay pornographic scenes actually got bigger stiffies than gay participents.
  Don't ask me why but reading You Knows remarks made me think of this.
  Why does he associate in cyber-space with so-called apostates when the society that demands unquestioning obedience from it's members has made it clear he is breaking their rules by doing so?
  Maybe he should stop and think about his obvious arousal by apostate ideas.

  Free
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  teejay

  wasa,

  I may have missed it commented on already, but in
  From Beginning to End : The Rituals of Our Lives,
  Robert Fulghum speaks of how Martha Carter planned
  her own funeral.

  A minister she barely knew officiated. A couple of her family
  members spoke, a couple of her students said a few words (she
  had been a teacher), a jazz band that played at a dance hall
  were she was learning to dance played all the music (playing
  rousing tunes she'd picked in advance).

  At the end of the service, a brief note of advice that she'd written
  was read, and all in attendance were then invited to a pot luck
  dinner afterwards that she had planned with the band playing
  dance tunes.

  It was really a celebration of her life rather than a somber affair.
  It gave me plenty of ideas on how I'd like to go. It was very inspirational.

  I'll email you a copy of the chapter if you wish. Or maybe I'll just
  post it here. It is very good. Let me know.

  peace,
  todd
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  jezebel influence

  Todd,
  Thankyou so much for posting the Martha Carter thread!

  WOW-what a fabulouse lady.
  She is still a teacher in the afterlife because Im sure everyone reading her story will learn alot about making the most of life.
  Also to show the ultimate love for her friends and family by truly caring about how they healed in thier grief over losing her.

  I would be cremated,and I would like to be planted into soil of a brand new tree so my children could go there to sit under,and know it was left just for them.

  I would like my children to be allowed at my funeral only if they want to be there as it is usually expected and maybe their are other ways to say good bye.

  I just hope they remember me as happy and loving not my grumpy days.

  Maybe one day i will write a letter to tell them how much i love them as sometime kids hear the scolding more than the praise and idd hate for them to question my love.

  Also another wish is that my man find someone that will trully love my kids and him as much as i do.

  good thread got me thinking!

  jez