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14 May 2009, 11:01 pm

ive instucted everyone to laugh and play classic deathmetal at my funeral. also to showcase a slideshow of my fire agates



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14 May 2009, 11:09 pm

richardbenson wrote:
ive instucted everyone to laugh and play classic deathmetal at my funeral. also to showcase a slideshow of my fire agates


Your enthusiasm seems to indicate you can hardly wait.Have you plans as to how you prefer to be whacked?



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14 May 2009, 11:15 pm

no. if i die, i die. humans make death silly. animals die all the time, and you dont see them throwing these elaborate parties



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14 May 2009, 11:26 pm

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no. if i die, i die. humans make death silly. animals die all the time, and you dont see them throwing these elaborate parties


No, they eat each other. That's an interesting variation for a funeral.
Be assured that once we are dead it will be a very short time before everybody will have forgotten you and I ever existed.



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14 May 2009, 11:48 pm

exactly. so why cry?



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14 May 2009, 11:55 pm

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exactly. so why cry?


They cry because something withing their minds has created a replica of their loved one (which is how we know each other) and all the reasons they love him or her and now they have to kill that piece of themselves and it hurts.



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15 May 2009, 12:08 am

my apologies sand. i didnt know you had a son that was disabled in a wheelchair that died



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15 May 2009, 4:15 am

i dont know where that came from but oh well. haha is your son in a wheelchair? i hope he is. not that i hope he died in a wheelchair, but do you know what i mean? this is exactly why i dont go to funerals and am banned from them. sorry if any of this information is uncorrect or whatnot.



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15 May 2009, 5:12 am

richardbenson, do you have schizophrenia? Your emotional inappropriateness and flipflopping is indicative of that.


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15 May 2009, 5:24 am

It's an odd thing, that hole that appears in the lives of the living when someone dies.

Doesn't seem to matter who it is, someone gets hurt. For some of us, that's enough motivation to keep going.



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15 May 2009, 6:35 am

richardbenson wrote:
i dont know where that came from but oh well. haha is your son in a wheelchair? i hope he is. not that i hope he died in a wheelchair, but do you know what i mean? this is exactly why i dont go to funerals and am banned from them. sorry if any of this information is uncorrect or whatnot.


No need to apologize. What happened happened. Emotions about people dying are not a matter of reason. You feel what you feel, I feel what I feel. It comes from the way our minds are built.



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16 May 2009, 8:38 pm

Insensitivity to peoples emotions is inhuman what makes us human is our ability for compassion even for people who on the face of it dont deserve it.We are all in the same boat enjoying and suffering the human condition at the same time,We must consider we are lucky to have moments of joy without them we are nothing.As for anger there is only one person it hurts a waste of time depression is anger turned inwards.