Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:59 pm**

www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/01/13/mock.fune ... index.html

CNN:

Story Highlights
New trend in South Korea has healthy people read their wills, get nailed into coffins

Participants, "re-born" after 15 minutes, say experience changes their lives

Trend called "well-dying" aims to get people to think about past, future, life, death

Critics say the funerals are unrealistic and just a scheme to make money

While I am an Agnostic, I can certainly see how this would have a positive effect on a life by allowing you to reflect on dying and what legacy you would leave, and perhaps things left undone you need to do, a Bucket List as it were.

What do you think, would the ceremony of Well-Dying help you in your life, and give you new outlook on life, or is it merely a moneymaking scheme?

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:06 pm**

$$$

a temporary change. i've seen many people claim to be changed by many things. but the weight of life crushes them and they end up back at square one.

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:45 pm**

I agree it would, in most cases, be temporary.

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:57 pm**

yea, looks to me to be a feelgood temporary thing, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing either. Any change can be good, and if you can use that experience to inspire you to better things then it's certainly worth a try. but hey, you can do that at home for free. Make one in your garage, or go dig a hole in the yard. Some nature based belief systems advocate the healing and shielding power of the earth too in similar regards. I wouldn't pay for it, but I can't see any reason not to for anyone else, as long as they aren't absolutely dependent on spectacular results. Those who think they are in for a life altering experience are often let down, and the effects of that can be even worse than not doing it. You need to be realistic it about it IOWs.

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:43 pm**

Ceremonies and ritual don't do anything for me, so it wouldn't be my cup of tea.

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:10 am**

btw: julie and i are donating our bodies to science/medical. that way someone can hack us up in order to learn something or to practice cutting. no costs, no burdens for the survivor.

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:29 am**

Your contribution is much appreciated, although I am under the impression that after a fix period of time your body is returned to your family.

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:33 am**

Emotional Leper wrote:Your contribution is much appreciated, although I am under the impression that after a fix period of time your body is returned to your family.

damn, will check into that. i want them to keep me.

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:47 am**

sgt.null wrote:
Emotional Leper wrote:Your contribution is much appreciated, although I am under the impression that after a fix period of time your body is returned to your family.
damn, will check into that. i want them to keep me.

From what I remember when I was talking with a friend about it, he said that when he dies, his body is going to be used for a year by med students, and then cremated and his remains returned to his family.

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:42 am**

Emotional Leper wrote:
sgt.null wrote:
Emotional Leper wrote:Your contribution is much appreciated, although I am under the impression that after a fix period of time your body is returned to your family.
damn, will check into that. i want them to keep me.
From what I remember when I was talking with a friend about it, he said that when he dies, his body is going to be used for a year by med students, and then cremated and his remains returned to his family.

...

I wonder if I could arrange something for my family to rent my body out for $$ after my death to various universities, labs, etc.

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:45 am**

I'll give 'em 600 for your skeleton.

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:46 pm**

can I have your WGD's?

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:45 pm**

Emotional Leper wrote:
sgt.null wrote:
Emotional Leper wrote:Your contribution is much appreciated, although I am under the impression that after a fix period of time your body is returned to your family.
damn, will check into that. i want them to keep me.
From what I remember when I was talking with a friend about it, he said that when he dies, his body is going to be used for a year by med students, and then cremated and his remains returned to his family.

well dust isn't so bad.

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:55 am**

Well, that would just freak me out.

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:44 am**

Calais wrote:Well, that would just freak me out.

being ground to paste or receiving the vase?

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:33 pm**

Being closed up into a coffin when I was still alive.

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:37 pm**

The whole things seems silly, but far be it from me to judge another. Instread why don't these folks just write their own obit?

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:11 am**

A Gunslinger wrote:The whole things seems silly, but far be it from me to judge another. Instread why don't these folks just write their own obit?

I did that once.

Rumours of my death were greatly exaggerated.

As to getting locked in a coffin pre-burial.

I could never personally do it. Being buried alive is one of my personal freakouts. Rather, I could never do it unless I v. v. much trusted the person doing it.

The whole point of religion is to try to ease the pains caused by death. For the dying, and for the survivors. Heaven, Reincarnation, Ancestor Worship, and everything else, is simply a means, from an anthropological point of view, to ease the pain of that very traumatic event by saying either, "He/She/It's gone to a better place," or "Nothing has really changed," or "They are still here with us, watching us, guarding us."

The funeral, exists not for the dead, but for us, the living.