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When I die - I want to be a DIAMOND and a PAINTING!
OK...
So before you guys go "HUH?" let me explain...
As we all have been faced with HCV we all have had to think about our own individual deaths.
OK - so death isn't all that glamorous --- especially now that we have an idea of how it's going to happen ---- or feeling like we are closer to death than most people.
It's kind of depressing - because you think of all the things you wish you could fit into an ordinary lifetime... And you realize that truly --- you probably will never get all of those things in --- and Godzilla is going to come stomping down your street before you actually get most of them done.
But --- Me --- well... I'm of the belief that everyone dies --- so there has to be something good about it.
Mind you --- I'm in no rush to get there --- but I'm not afraid of the journey...
LOL!
Anyhow... Having thought about dying a little more frequently in the last year... the fact becoming a little more of a reality --- than something far far off in the future... I started looking around at the options available.
You know... Some folks want to be buried in specific cemeteries... Some want to be cremated... Some don't care.... etc.
Well - at first, because I'm kind of artsy-fartsy, and I love to visit old crumbling cemeteries, and pencil etch old gravestones, and historical events make me feel nostaligic... I thought I'd want to be buried in a beautiful marble mausoleum.
Well - checking into the costs of one of those --- more expensive than most houses.... left me going --- ohhh... well I can't do that. Sigh...
Then I wanted to be a fountain... they make these awesome sundials and fountains... But the hubby said Birds will visit me --- and I thought... Do I really want to have bird poo for a century or two?
SO I went a looking and I found a couple of very interesting things --- and I've made up my mind on one of them.
Now --- hear me out --- before you go AGGGG!!!!
I WANNA BE A DIAMOND!
First off --- to be honest about it... I'm a woman... LMAO! And what's better than diamonds? Hmmmm?
Second --- I can be passed down from generation to generation... Ooohhh think "FAMILY JEWELS"... LOL!
http://www.lifegem.com
I was like --- WOWSER ---- way too freaking cool.
So today - reading Wyn's heartbreaking post --- I was looking for ways to possibly do that for pets, as well.
It's a bit expensive...
But WHILE I was doing that... (Looking around for pet alternatives) ... I found this guy who will paint pictures with ashes...
http://www.ashestoportraits.com/
OMG --- NOW I want BOTH!!!!!
Sigh --- I know... I'm really a woman...
But -- imagine a beautiful painting (and me - personally - I wouldn't have a picture of me painted unless he could make me look like that Marilyn Monroe picture on those red silk sheets with my face.... LOL!) that could be passed down from family members and on...
Being a part of their lives FOREVER.
And for you Sailing nuts out there --- there was one that makes your ashes into a reef... and they are kinda cool!
http://www.eternalreefs.com/
Anyhow --- I just thought I'd share with you guys...
It's maybe a little wacky --- but I think it's kind of cool at the same time.
And I really --- REALLY --- want to be a diamond... I've already told the family and they've all agreed... My daughter wants one from me (LOL - raised her right - I have... Girl likes pretty stones...) And the hubby agreed that if I died - and he remarried that he'd put me in the jewelry box when they got amorous. LOL!
What do you think?
Meki
So before you guys go "HUH?" let me explain...
As we all have been faced with HCV we all have had to think about our own individual deaths.
OK - so death isn't all that glamorous --- especially now that we have an idea of how it's going to happen ---- or feeling like we are closer to death than most people.
It's kind of depressing - because you think of all the things you wish you could fit into an ordinary lifetime... And you realize that truly --- you probably will never get all of those things in --- and Godzilla is going to come stomping down your street before you actually get most of them done.
But --- Me --- well... I'm of the belief that everyone dies --- so there has to be something good about it.
Mind you --- I'm in no rush to get there --- but I'm not afraid of the journey...
LOL!
Anyhow... Having thought about dying a little more frequently in the last year... the fact becoming a little more of a reality --- than something far far off in the future... I started looking around at the options available.
You know... Some folks want to be buried in specific cemeteries... Some want to be cremated... Some don't care.... etc.
Well - at first, because I'm kind of artsy-fartsy, and I love to visit old crumbling cemeteries, and pencil etch old gravestones, and historical events make me feel nostaligic... I thought I'd want to be buried in a beautiful marble mausoleum.
Well - checking into the costs of one of those --- more expensive than most houses.... left me going --- ohhh... well I can't do that. Sigh...
Then I wanted to be a fountain... they make these awesome sundials and fountains... But the hubby said Birds will visit me --- and I thought... Do I really want to have bird poo for a century or two?
SO I went a looking and I found a couple of very interesting things --- and I've made up my mind on one of them.
Now --- hear me out --- before you go AGGGG!!!!
I WANNA BE A DIAMOND!
First off --- to be honest about it... I'm a woman... LMAO! And what's better than diamonds? Hmmmm?
Second --- I can be passed down from generation to generation... Ooohhh think "FAMILY JEWELS"... LOL!
http://www.lifegem.com
I was like --- WOWSER ---- way too freaking cool.
So today - reading Wyn's heartbreaking post --- I was looking for ways to possibly do that for pets, as well.
It's a bit expensive...
But WHILE I was doing that... (Looking around for pet alternatives) ... I found this guy who will paint pictures with ashes...
http://www.ashestoportraits.com/
OMG --- NOW I want BOTH!!!!!
Sigh --- I know... I'm really a woman...
But -- imagine a beautiful painting (and me - personally - I wouldn't have a picture of me painted unless he could make me look like that Marilyn Monroe picture on those red silk sheets with my face.... LOL!) that could be passed down from family members and on...
Being a part of their lives FOREVER.
And for you Sailing nuts out there --- there was one that makes your ashes into a reef... and they are kinda cool!
http://www.eternalreefs.com/
Anyhow --- I just thought I'd share with you guys...
It's maybe a little wacky --- but I think it's kind of cool at the same time.
And I really --- REALLY --- want to be a diamond... I've already told the family and they've all agreed... My daughter wants one from me (LOL - raised her right - I have... Girl likes pretty stones...) And the hubby agreed that if I died - and he remarried that he'd put me in the jewelry box when they got amorous. LOL!
What do you think?
Meki
Ever hear, a Pink Floyd ditty, Shine On You Crazy Diamond? Always interesting posts from you!
you always make me smile....i think you are a beautiful diamond already...you shine girl!!!!
blessings, and beautiful days and nights to you!!!
Julie
blessings, and beautiful days and nights to you!!!
Julie
Ever have the situation in which someone close to you gives you a gift that the giver admires greatly, but you don't think is all that special? Further, this person is important to you and you don't want to hurt the person's feelings by not prominently displaying the grotesque artifact that he thinks is so wonderful. Now, think about the corpse painting you would leave behind to a loved one. Never-ever able to discard this 'work of art' they would forever have to account for it, even beyond their own demise. Why would you do that to anyone? Or, you run the risk of ending up in Goodwill with a fifty cent price tag. You're dead, what do you care? These long days in Alaska give you too much time to think about such things. Take up suduku
I thought this was supposed to be the 'social' side of forum where people are free to post whatever they want?
Why denigrate someone else's persepctive?
Too much time for what?????
Thinking? Or maybe thinking about stuff someone finds unconfortable, or, worse yet, is contrary to someone else's world view?
As for the comment, "You're dead, what do you care?"
That's close to what a certain president said in response to a 2004 question about how he thought history would perceive his decisions.
"What difference does it make?" he said. "We'll all be dead."
Meki,
I enjoyed your post.
Don't know if I wanna do the ash painting but it sure was interesting.
Wyntre
Why denigrate someone else's persepctive?
Too much time for what?????
Thinking? Or maybe thinking about stuff someone finds unconfortable, or, worse yet, is contrary to someone else's world view?
As for the comment, "You're dead, what do you care?"
That's close to what a certain president said in response to a 2004 question about how he thought history would perceive his decisions.
"What difference does it make?" he said. "We'll all be dead."
Meki,
I enjoyed your post.
Don't know if I wanna do the ash painting but it sure was interesting.
Wyntre
I am 100% female and totally agree with MIke and FL, but then again - I am a *dip* lol
this thread exemplifies some of the differences between men and women, to a degree anyway...(maybe going out on a limb here) and I'm speaking generally of course...
I remember riding all the way to another state..... the lone passenger in the back seat of a car driven by a newly married couple...(someone remind me not to that again! lol) They were "working out" some of their differences and viewpoints, blithely unaware or not caring of my presence for the most part ..
The guy mostly wanted her to get to the *point* of the matter (of whatever they were discussing) where the woman wanted to give a lot of the whys and wherefores....and spoke in a much more circular fashion....
Sometimes she merely just wanted to speculate on things, or give us some *musings* of hers, about whatever...which sometimes seemed to annoy the husband....
Of course, the wife would sometimes seem to be annoyed when the husband would answer questions with either a curt "yes", or "no", without feeling any need to elaborate on matters...or he would come up with solutions to things that weren't necessarily asked for, much to his confusion...
I think as much as we love and care for our husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, etc etc...there's probably a good reason why guys have pals to talk to now and then, and women have girlfriends, lol...just a few of my musings....
I remember riding all the way to another state..... the lone passenger in the back seat of a car driven by a newly married couple...(someone remind me not to that again! lol) They were "working out" some of their differences and viewpoints, blithely unaware or not caring of my presence for the most part ..
The guy mostly wanted her to get to the *point* of the matter (of whatever they were discussing) where the woman wanted to give a lot of the whys and wherefores....and spoke in a much more circular fashion....
Sometimes she merely just wanted to speculate on things, or give us some *musings* of hers, about whatever...which sometimes seemed to annoy the husband....
Of course, the wife would sometimes seem to be annoyed when the husband would answer questions with either a curt "yes", or "no", without feeling any need to elaborate on matters...or he would come up with solutions to things that weren't necessarily asked for, much to his confusion...
I think as much as we love and care for our husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, etc etc...there's probably a good reason why guys have pals to talk to now and then, and women have girlfriends, lol...just a few of my musings....
From your pic i would have thought you'd wanna be buried with your bike. *LOL*
wyntre
wyntre
remember a long time ago when I first started posting on forum and got inadvertently caught in a controversy that i didn't even know existed?
After 8 months, i now understand much more why the battle occurred and why you fought so hard.
wyntre
After 8 months, i now understand much more why the battle occurred and why you fought so hard.
wyntre
I find it interesting that the subject of death is taboo in our society. I've avoided bringing it up here because of how emotional the meds make people. I'm sorry everyone is so frightened of something that is part of the cycle of life. I'm not afraid of dying.Though I think its natural to strive to survive.
I had a dream once that there was a big noise, a flash, and I was flying towards the light, knowing I was dying. I told my husband, "I'll catch you around next time", and I woke up. I was going to paint the dream. I knew how and could envsion it in oils.
I'd be happy to have my body decompose and renew the earth.The body is the form which I will leave behind when it dies. I will simply fly back form where I came, to the light. OH
I had a dream once that there was a big noise, a flash, and I was flying towards the light, knowing I was dying. I told my husband, "I'll catch you around next time", and I woke up. I was going to paint the dream. I knew how and could envsion it in oils.
I'd be happy to have my body decompose and renew the earth.The body is the form which I will leave behind when it dies. I will simply fly back form where I came, to the light. OH
Yeah - but mike and FLguy --- You KNOW you'd wear me as a diamond -- -now wouldn't ya? Earring or Tie Tac... Or a really cool Manly ring.
LOL!
Nah --- it's cool - not everyone can deal with it the same way... And yeah ---- some folks have gone """""OOOOOOHHH YUCK"""""
But --- I think it's kind of a cherish able thing...
The painting tho --- I'd really want a GOOD artist to do it --- and I certainly wouldn't want to be a portrait... who'd wanna see my ugly mug out there on their wall - Hell I wouldn't even pay 50 cents at Goodwill for it. LOL!
Maybe a really good outdoors scene ---- or even a fantastic city scape...
Or post modern....
But the diamond --- that's just tooo cool... At least I think....
I mean - heck -- I am going to die some day --- right?
LOL!
Might as well go out with some glitter.
And it's totally cool youse guys have a differing opinion... Heck if we all thought alike we'd live in Stepford.
PSP - Hugs hun! It's ok... I understand...
Hugs,
Meki
LOL!
Nah --- it's cool - not everyone can deal with it the same way... And yeah ---- some folks have gone """""OOOOOOHHH YUCK"""""
But --- I think it's kind of a cherish able thing...
The painting tho --- I'd really want a GOOD artist to do it --- and I certainly wouldn't want to be a portrait... who'd wanna see my ugly mug out there on their wall - Hell I wouldn't even pay 50 cents at Goodwill for it. LOL!
Maybe a really good outdoors scene ---- or even a fantastic city scape...
Or post modern....
But the diamond --- that's just tooo cool... At least I think....
I mean - heck -- I am going to die some day --- right?
LOL!
Might as well go out with some glitter.
And it's totally cool youse guys have a differing opinion... Heck if we all thought alike we'd live in Stepford.
PSP - Hugs hun! It's ok... I understand...
Hugs,
Meki
You guys --- no worries.
People can have differing opinions - that's totally cool..
Although - I don't do Soduku.... Too freaking hard for my ADHD brain. OK - maybe not too hard...But certainly there's a chicken crossing the road while I'm doing it and my attention is distracted by the second column. LOL!
A lot of people view death and dying differently -- and that's awesome.
I honestly meant to give you guys some sort of insight into the way I was thinking --- and definitely did not mean to make others feel offensive or defensive.
I try to handle everything I do with a smile and sometimes I'm a little off the wall ---- so if I hurt anyone's feelings --- or made them uncomfortable... I am truly sorry.... That was never my intention.
I am a happy-go-lucky person ---- so please know that my intention was not to make people sad or upset.
More to give them a personal glimpse --- maybe an idea... and to uplift a dreary, sad topic that is probably on everyone's mind at some point in time.
Hugs to everyone,
Meki (contritely)
People can have differing opinions - that's totally cool..
Although - I don't do Soduku.... Too freaking hard for my ADHD brain. OK - maybe not too hard...But certainly there's a chicken crossing the road while I'm doing it and my attention is distracted by the second column. LOL!
A lot of people view death and dying differently -- and that's awesome.
I honestly meant to give you guys some sort of insight into the way I was thinking --- and definitely did not mean to make others feel offensive or defensive.
I try to handle everything I do with a smile and sometimes I'm a little off the wall ---- so if I hurt anyone's feelings --- or made them uncomfortable... I am truly sorry.... That was never my intention.
I am a happy-go-lucky person ---- so please know that my intention was not to make people sad or upset.
More to give them a personal glimpse --- maybe an idea... and to uplift a dreary, sad topic that is probably on everyone's mind at some point in time.
Hugs to everyone,
Meki (contritely)
hey, no worries! I'll go out on a limb and say that prob no one is mad, once again, I'll mention that we don't have the benefit of body language and voice inflection, so sometimes things might come off sounding more intense then was meant by the poster.....and no one on this thread is unreasonable, I think we all just view things differently at times, and of course that's bound to happen with a bunch of different personalities...but I personally think this board is infinitely more civilized then it was long ago now, where some people were actually wishing each other dead (no kidding) more then a few times......don't want to speak for anybody, but my take is it's all alright, we hashed it out, next subject, ha ha! or the same subject, whatever! lol
Phew... and I thought I was going to get speared... *sniffle* (long wipe of nose on sleeve =LOL!)
People really wished others dead?
Wow - I figure I have had enough problems just staying alive to worry about wishing others dead. That's kind of sad.
Well - I'm certainly glad the board is more civilized... I am so glad I never saw that type of online brutality.
To me - each person brings something unique to the forums --- to enlighten, laugh, learn or teach... Or just to share... and to listen and be heard.
By the way --- I'm usually laughing --- here and at home in front of the computer... Life is too short to worry about everything...
Meki
People really wished others dead?
Wow - I figure I have had enough problems just staying alive to worry about wishing others dead. That's kind of sad.
Well - I'm certainly glad the board is more civilized... I am so glad I never saw that type of online brutality.
To me - each person brings something unique to the forums --- to enlighten, laugh, learn or teach... Or just to share... and to listen and be heard.
By the way --- I'm usually laughing --- here and at home in front of the computer... Life is too short to worry about everything...
Meki
Sorry, I guess I meant Salvation Army. But, like Bob Barker says.....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292458,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292458,00.html
I got a give credit to Pigeon for sending me this, you've got to see this to believe it, it'll put a smile on your face for sure!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NueKXS6dk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NueKXS6dk
Forsee --- That hippo just walked into the house...
A friend of mine had a pygmy pig (that turned out to be NOT a pygmy pig) and it was as smart as you or I.... (I'm not kidding... it could turn on the television - it could change channels - I have no idea if it really watched tv -- but every once in awhile it seemed to be paying attention to the thing.... LOL!)
It would walk with her to the bar --- it would do all sorts of things.
Wonder if Jessica can too?
Meki
A friend of mine had a pygmy pig (that turned out to be NOT a pygmy pig) and it was as smart as you or I.... (I'm not kidding... it could turn on the television - it could change channels - I have no idea if it really watched tv -- but every once in awhile it seemed to be paying attention to the thing.... LOL!)
It would walk with her to the bar --- it would do all sorts of things.
Wonder if Jessica can too?
Meki
OMG --- FL --- how freaking funny!
Oh - what a story!
But you're safe --- I don't collect turtles -- I collect Dragons.(very nice sculptures, Chinese, Oriental, American, European and Medieval.)
So don't be buyin' Dragon Cookie Jars that have glued on lids....LOL!
Oh - what a story!
But you're safe --- I don't collect turtles -- I collect Dragons.(very nice sculptures, Chinese, Oriental, American, European and Medieval.)
So don't be buyin' Dragon Cookie Jars that have glued on lids....LOL!
By the way, my first post in this thread does not convey the jest with which it was written.
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