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Metope:
Yeah that's how I feel too. Also open caskets aren't a thing over here, which I am very thankful for. I don't think she took any photos during the actual funeral inside the chapel, but she definitely took photos of all the flower arrangements on the site of the grave, plus all the guests standing there. Of course, Jens wasn't able to attend the funeral, so I think she took the photos partially so that he could see what it was like too.

Regarding different types of funerals, I came across a website that advertised biodegradable boxes for cremated ashes, and the box also contains the seed of a tree (don't remember which type), so when the tree starts growing you'll have that instead of a grave stone. I think that's what I want to happen to me, seems much nicer than rotting in an expensive, wooden box.

Jimmy the Squid:
I had a client who had attempted suicide and her two teenage daughters had taken photos of her in her hospital bed while she was in an induced coma and put them up on facebook. I think with the availability of having a camera wherever you go and the simplicity of sharing everything about your life (and a lack of awareness of the consequences of that) a lot of children just don't think about it any more, if they ever did. But because they just had this technology made available to them, without having to figure out how to use it or even understand it they're just not responsible with it.

Metope:
Wow. Yeah my mom and aunts would never have put those photos online, so that's different. Technology really is developing too fast for society to keep up, it's probably not easy for kids to see where the line is crossed when uploading stuff to fb. In theory you should always ask for permission before uploading a photo of someone, but in real life that's pretty hard to follow and sometimes not really necessary, and sometimes it's hard to judge the situation. Maybe they should teach online privacy ethics in school or something?

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--- Quote from: Metope on 31 Oct 2013, 14:24 ---Regarding different types of funerals, I came across a website that advertised biodegradable boxes for cremated ashes, and the box also contains the seed of a tree (don't remember which type), so when the tree starts growing you'll have that instead of a grave stone. I think that's what I want to happen to me, seems much nicer than rotting in an expensive, wooden box.

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Considering I always wanted to be cremated and then have my ashes buried under a tree*, I think this sounds fantastic.

*I decided this as a child...don't remember when exactly, but sometime around the time I understood what happened to dead people.

pwhodges:
I don't care what happens to my body; burn it and let the ashes blow away for all I care - but if doing something else makes someone happy, well I won't be around to object.

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