My mother's family was in the funeral business. She chose to be cremated and set adrift in the flow of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. We kept a bit of her in a small handmade clay vessel. I bought a fetish made by an Alaskan Native Artist to house her spirit and watch over the ashes. Dust to dust.

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"Tell me what you see; and I'll know where you are"
~~cc

I gave love; you gave me a thistle;
We shared tenderness; then you ran away;
I planted a rose; and you blossomed;
I had fresh hopes; tho' winter froze them solid

My whole family is made up of funeral directors.
And they are so expensive
funerals i mean.

even just a cremation costs over a grand.

I need to run this walmart shit by my dad

lol
my mom just said he got a casket for a client from Costco to other day.
I wonder if they bought some in bulk?
She's going on to tell me that they usually come in damaged and take FOREVERRRRR to get fixed
like 48 whole hours
which is a long time when you're decomposing.

Nature intended for the body to be in the ground so it can be recycled and the soul can be free. Bodies kept in a sealed containers are not given the natural opportunity to be recycled into the earth properly thus affecting the soul.

just leave me in the ditch and let whatever comes to mangle and decompose my corpse come.

do not put me in "Wal-mart" anything when i die.

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"i feel like if we met we would never separate."
"Jonny boy is the male stripper of KR." - skeleton_key
"but if jewell comes on, especially the song about how she cooks eggs and feels love, then i want to stab everyone. alot of times. and i change it to black people music. for safety." -Sparklelulu

i have my mom, dad and grandma's ashes all still sitting in the boxes they came in from the funeral home.
i have considered scattering them or getting an urn but havent decided on anything
my uncle wants my grandma's ashes BAD so he can bury them
but she didn't want them to be buried. she always joked to use them for traction under the tires in the winter but obviously i'm not going to do that

so you know. i dont really know. but not a walmart urn.

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The greatest asset they all have is themselves. And yet does anybody promote that to them? Does anybody tell them that they are the greatest asset they have? Or are they steered to idol worship? Are they moved, are they motivated, are they inspired to look at the president or any politician as their only salvation? If they are, it's just a shame.