Family�s shock at text message from dead gran

Seriously? The new generations answer to coping with death? Text the deceased? For three years...

Yeah. We're screwed.

So the afterlife finally has wireless.

It's heaben. They got everything.

"I text dead people..."

ANd previous generations ways of coping with death were so much better?

Seances, ouija boards, elaborate rituals, getting piss drunk at a wake...

ANd previous generations ways of coping with death were so much better?

Seances, ouija boards, elaborate rituals, getting piss drunk at a wake...
None of that shit is coping. The texting dead people can go on list.

I used to write letter to my grandmother for years after she died. Just to tell her about what was going on in my life. Made me feel better. I don't see this as being much different.

I used to write letter to my grandmother for years after she died. Just to tell her about what was going on in my life. Made me feel better. I don't see this as being much different.
I can understand that and relate... I was very close to mine too.

I used to write letter to my grandmother for years after she died. Just to tell her about what was going on in my life. Made me feel better. I don't see this as being much different.
Mmmmm.... Nope. Sorry. Paying for a phone for three years just so you can send texts to it, knowing full well the owner is not there, is just not the same thing in my wee mind. That's just messed up.

Oh, I'm not saying it's not messed up, cause it totally is, but death and grief do strange things to all of us. It might not be a standard way of coping, but it's not hurting anyone and it ,ight be helping them.

No stranger than keeping remains of your loved one's body around to visit with. If you're Christian, they're in one of two places, neither one where the body remains are, If you're atheist, well it's just matter that was animated but now isn't. Seems to me, you want to remember your loved one's body, have them stuffed, mount them in your living room. Gotta admit the Viking burial at sea seems pretty cool, but that was reserved for the head honchos. Basically I would hope they derive whatever benefit they can from my body, whether that's an anatomy class (I didn't know they got that big on white men!) to using me for fertilizer, to what have you. Actually the Tibetan way of throwing bodies off a cliff for the vultures also has an appeal. Anything but the bullshit that's the custom here, embalm them so the worms take longer to get at them, put em in a big fancy box that's allowed to rot. Embalming fluid can't be good for the environment, using trees to just stick in the ground to rot seems like a waste. Oh, the stupid ideas we inherited from those sheepherders.

I'm sure they think so. To me, the most important part of coping is moving forward. That does not look like moving forward in any way, shape or form.

Just my opinion though.

Actually no. In Christianity, all the dead remain in the ground until the 'Rapture', when the dead in Christ are resurrected along with the living believers and they are 'caught up in the clouds'. After that everyone has to wait in the ground again, for the final resurrection on Judgment Day.

Judaism says this is the only life promised SO ENJOY IT.

The jews sound very Buddhist, except with a lot more kvetching. Maybe they're enjoying life, but they sure often don't sound like it.

But a religion without an afterlife - makes no sense to me. So there you are on the way to the gas chamber, with no comforting thought of going to a better place, trying to draw comfort that you are God's chosen, but he seems to have chosen you for a horror show.