Strange Behaviors - Relics

[Streetwise]

I'm still stuck on where is the rest of him? And how did they conclude this was Santa?
Was he found in a crashed sleigh in the Alps? Did the the elves hire a hit on the guy?
Rouge Reindeer event?
Was he caught with his secretary, and Mrs. Claus lost it?
Why is he in broken pieces... Not such a merry event it looks like...

Who says that doesn't belong to Sasquatch? : )

What the Catholic Church did was based on greed,I have no idea where Nicholas was buried ,his skeleton is supposed to be in a church in Bari Italy but who knows.
I think Part of the reason for displaying skeletons is people were generally illiterate so needed visual pictures.

 

[SusanLR]

Most of it is cultural and the culture you were raised in is why you feel it either gross, venerable or it will mean nothing.
Really is a piece of bone or a skull anymore than someone keeping a lock of hair?

Something like the mother in the rocking chair that Norman kept in the movie Psycho would be a whole different thing. The skeleton isn't different, but, the reason for keeping it around is. That would be from a mental illness. He even pretended to play both parts- him and her.

I always got the heebies around morticians.
I mean, really, why would someone pick that for a career? Seems something is off with that.
I personally knew a mortician once and I told him to tell me everything about it as I was trying to decide between embalming or cremation.
I chose cremation.

 

[Chance]

Most of it is cultural and the culture you were raised in is why you feel it either gross, venerable or it will mean nothing.
Really is a piece of bone or a skull anymore than someone keeping a lock of hair?

Something like the mother in the rocking chair that Norman kept in the movie Psycho would be a whole different thing. The skeleton isn't different, but, the reason for keeping it around is. That would be from a mental illness. He even pretended to play both parts- him and her.

I always got the heebies around morticians.
I mean, really, why would someone pick that for a career? Seems something is off with that.
I personally knew a mortician once and I told him to tell me everything about it as I was trying to decide between embalming or cremation.
I chose cremation.

I'm not real good on accepting "death" but after thinking about this type of stuff many times in my life... I don't want to be a rotting corpse in a pretty box. Cremation is the most logical thing I can think of. I'm not taking up space as a dead man, and its still ashes to ashes, dust to dust - just a lot quicker I suppose. Toss whats left of me up into the wind and set me free... It seems like a much better choice than a dark box with bugs, mold, and a very slow gross decomposing process...

 

[Streetwise]

I'm not real good on accepting "death" but after thinking about this type of stuff many times in my life... I don't want to be a rotting corpse in a pretty box. Cremation is the most logical thing I can think of. I'm not taking up space as a dead man, and its still ashes to ashes, dust to dust - just a lot quicker I suppose. Toss whats left of me up into the wind and set me free... It seems like a much better choice than a dark box with bugs, mold, and a very slow gross decomposing process...

What about the native American way I like the idea of that a platform made of branches lay the body on the top and set on fire if that is truly Native American .
Didn't like cremation I wanted to see what was happening to my mother till the end
I scattered her ashes so I managed to get the bit I wanted .People have no respect for graveyards now they destroy the tombstones.

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

What about the native American way I like the idea of that a platform made of branches lay the body on the top and set on fire if that is truly Native American .
Didn't like cremation I wanted to see what was happening to my mother till the end
I scattered her ashes so I managed to get the bit I wanted .People have no respect for graveyards now they destroy the tombstones.

Yep,sign me up, giving back to the earth, let the vultures get you...

When the bones are picked clean
And the clean bones gone,
Death shall have no dominion

 

[Gracey]

Other than research or scientific value I don't understand much value beyond that.

I've gone through the ceremony of saying goodbye to two relatives "laid out" they're just casings, packaging, empty shells.
It's our memories of that person that keeps them alive or animate.

The natural process is decomposition of the 'packaging' to serve other cycles of life.

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Other than research or scientific value I don't understand much value beyond that.

I've gone through the ceremony of saying goodbye to two relatives "laid out" they're just casings, packaging, empty shells.
It's our memories of that person that keeps them alive or animate.

The natural process is decomposition of the 'packaging' to serve other cycles of life.

Some funeral speeches you're giving

Hope that wasnt too insensitive! I only did it cos i guessed you would take it okay. A lot of my lot are dead too. A stressful time,certainly.

 

[Streetwise]

Yep,sign me up, giving back to the earth, let the vultures get you...

When the bones are picked clean
And the clean bones gone,
Death shall have no dominion

I wouldn't want vultures eating me the amount of infections that I have I would probably kill them

 

[watersprite]

I had no interest in seeing the catacombs or other places that held relics. It is fascinating to read history though.

I admit I've always wondered whether there is any life after death. Even though I'm usually fairly logical, the idea intrigues.

Spoiler

I touched a very tiny bit of my mom's ahes to my tongue before scattering them.

When my partner died in a plane crash, (long ago) parts of his eyes were salvaged to help someone else. That was a nice thought during what otherwise was not nice at all.

 

[watersprite]

I wouldn't want vultures eating me the amount of infections that I have I would probably kill them

That gave me a funny cartoon of you as a zombie flailing around trying to kill the vultures who were trying to eat you.

 

[Mia]

What about the native American way I like the idea of that a platform made of branches lay the body on the top and set on fire if that is truly Native American

It wasn't common for Indigenous people to cremate their dead, although a few southern bands did. Most covered their dead with many layers of animal skins and or buffalo robes and placed them on platforms to keep them from being eaten by wolves and bears.

Burial customs varied widely from tribe to tribe. Indians disposed of their dead in a variety of ways. Some Arctic tribes, for example, simply left their dead on the frozen ground for wild animals to devour, others built stone cairns in summer. The ancient mound-building Hopewell societies of the Upper Midwest, by contrast, placed the dead in lavishly furnished tombs. Southeastern tribes practiced secondary bone burial. They dug up their corpses, cleansed the bones, and then reburied them. The Northeast Iroquois, before they formed the Five Nations Confederation in the seventeenth century, saved skeletons of the deceased for a final mass burial that included furs and ornaments for the dead spirits' use in the afterlife. Northwest coastal tribes put their dead in mortuary cabins or canoes fastened to poles. Further south, California tribes practiced cremation. In western mountain areas tribes often deposited their dead in caves or fissures in the rocks. Nomadic tribes in the Great Plains region either buried their dead, if the ground was soft, or left them on tree platforms or on scaffolds. Central and South Atlantic tribes embalmed and mummified their dead. But during outbreaks of smallpox or other diseases leading to the sudden deaths of many tribe members, survivors hurriedly cast the corpses into a mass grave or threw them into a river.

Some Southwestern tribes, especially the Apache and Navajo, feared the ghosts of the deceased who were believed to represent the living. The nomadic Apache buried corpses swiftly and burned the deceased's house and possessions.

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