(October 21, 2020 at 7:44 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: I keep seeing these ads on TV for Funeral expenses insurance.
WTF?
I have already told my progeny that when my time comes, put me in a cardboard box, pour on some petrol and light a match.
Why? Because as I told them, I will be dead. I will not be there. I will be gone forever. I will not see any of it. There will be no "me" at that point. So what's the point? Waste all those thousands on a fancy funeral? For what? Why would anyone waste that kind of money on gently cooling meat?
In fact, even the theists must admit that my so-called "soul" has gone someplace else by then. So they have no leg to stand on in this.
Why on earth do people do this?
It annoys the shit out of me.
I want a "viking" burial, except from some fancy-smancy boat, just put my corpse into a decrepit old dingy with some combustible material and put it ablaze a bit away from the shore of Sandagerð beach.
LOL, I can imagine it now, a bunch of teary onlookers, friends & family looking at a flaming dingy in shock as it quickly burns out and sinks to the bottom at the sands, while my half-charred corpse floats up to the surface and washes unto the beach. I'll be dead and none the wiser, but it will be something to remember me by.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
