Funerals · 5:39am Nov 21st, 2016
So, I went to my uncle's funeral this last Saturday. It was a nice funeral, or at least as nice as celebrating a dead person can be, but it was open casket. Now, I am desensitized to death, blood, gore, and dead bodies, but I always find myself uncomfortable with open coffins. It really disturbs me for some reason. I have to assume it's the setting that it's in. If I were to find a dead body somewhere I would be less disturbed than finding an open coffin somewhere. At least with a random dead body it's like 'what happened', while an open coffin is like 'WHAT HAPPENED!?'.
Another problem I have with funerals is that most of the ones I've been to has a very boring sermon, as most of funerals I've been to are of family who are the religious type. One thing irked me about this sermon though. While I have no problem with people believing in a god or celebrating their religion, they should, but I do have a problem when things switch to hating on those with no religion. Now, if the sermon is meant for the congregation and it's talk like that, then fine, whatever. But if it's at a funeral for a man we are celebrating and you decide to spout your religious views, then there's a problem. Spoiler, buddy, hell is probably cooler than heaven. What does heaven offer? Eternal glory under your god? Pftt, hell probably has strippers and cake and corgis.
When I die I'm not sure what I would like to happen to me. I do not want to be cremated. While I am technically an Atheist, I do hold certain religious superstitions. One being that reincarnation is a thing and that if you are cremated before you can be reincarnated, you will take your previous life's sins with you and you will pay them there. Those who aren't cremated simply pay their sins like those of the Christian religion, except it's not forever. This all stems from karma, as karma is something I heavily follow and keep steady.
That's a very non-detailed description of what I believe. I could go more into it but I'd care not to in the same post where I bash another religion. Though, technically I was bashing a specific denomination of Christianity called Baptists. I work for a Presbyterian church and they are quite the opposite of Baptists, to which Prebyterians don't actually mind non-religious folk, as long as they aren't disruptive.
But enough about religion, this was more about funerals. I'm not sure if I would like to be buried as that seems like a waste of resources to be put into a box and eaten by maggots. Of course, I say that even though I'm someone who would not donate any organs after I die. It's quite the opposite of reasoning. Perhaps if they could ship me into outer space and let my dead body into the cold nothingness then maybe they could study the effects the lack of oxygen and cold has on a body. That'd be pretty neat. I'd rather not let my body be studied by regular doctors, but SPACE doctors? That's cool.
I suppose in the end it really doesn't matter what happens to my body as I'll be dead. To be honest, being alive is the weirdest part. Dead is final, but living warps your reality and how you see and deal with things. That horrid pastor said that heaven would hold no hatred, sickness, or problems. But, without those things how would we know what's really good and happy? What would we have to compare the good to if not those bad things?
I'd like to live for however long I'm going to. With the good and the bad.
~TheTimeSword
Sorry for your loss