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If you post a corpse on Facebook, you might be a redneck...
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 629422" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>In old days it would have been common (of course no Facebook.) But it was common to take pictures of corpse and funeral guests with the corpse. Often times it may have been an only photo taken from the person. But yes, putting them to Facebook shows a bit poor taste to me too.</p><p></p><p>However one can look it from many directions. In my neck of woods there has been lot of talk about trying to hide the death and what it does to us. Our funerals are basically always closed casket. Closest mourners may be present when the casket is closed before the funerals, but there is never any work done with the corpse or anything as I have understood is quite common in US (in other words I was a fan of Six Feet Under, not sure if it gave any real representation of your funeral arrangements or not, though.) And often even the closest ones don't want to see a corpse. Better part of people around here have never seen a dead person. And there has been some discussion, what that does to us and if we have gone too far from principles of life, when hiding death from our society like that. </p><p></p><p>There are also lots of people, who seem to feel they have a right to 'be themselves' and come as they are, to both funerals and weddings and any other sort of gathering. The thought goes something like: if you have time to look what others are wearing and get offended, you are not giving enough attention to main thing there (e.g. mourning, or celebrating weddings or what ever was a reason for gathering.) Some people take pride about wearing jeans and sport sandals to funerals or weddings and think they are more true and authentic that way. I'm traditionalist/conservative too and find that rather tacky and entitled. They probably find me stuck up, prudish and pharisaic.</p><p></p><p>But yeah, it is tacky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 629422, member: 14557"] In old days it would have been common (of course no Facebook.) But it was common to take pictures of corpse and funeral guests with the corpse. Often times it may have been an only photo taken from the person. But yes, putting them to Facebook shows a bit poor taste to me too. However one can look it from many directions. In my neck of woods there has been lot of talk about trying to hide the death and what it does to us. Our funerals are basically always closed casket. Closest mourners may be present when the casket is closed before the funerals, but there is never any work done with the corpse or anything as I have understood is quite common in US (in other words I was a fan of Six Feet Under, not sure if it gave any real representation of your funeral arrangements or not, though.) And often even the closest ones don't want to see a corpse. Better part of people around here have never seen a dead person. And there has been some discussion, what that does to us and if we have gone too far from principles of life, when hiding death from our society like that. There are also lots of people, who seem to feel they have a right to 'be themselves' and come as they are, to both funerals and weddings and any other sort of gathering. The thought goes something like: if you have time to look what others are wearing and get offended, you are not giving enough attention to main thing there (e.g. mourning, or celebrating weddings or what ever was a reason for gathering.) Some people take pride about wearing jeans and sport sandals to funerals or weddings and think they are more true and authentic that way. I'm traditionalist/conservative too and find that rather tacky and entitled. They probably find me stuck up, prudish and pharisaic. But yeah, it is tacky. [/QUOTE]
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