We actually buried him in July, just had a service in December. winter deaths when it’s -40 are a pain.

I hate religious idiots with no verbal filter.

My family is rife with secrets. My relatives had a get together last month, and my uncle let slip that my (long dead) great uncle had maintained an entire second family in the US during his custom farming years. Apparently my mom’s cousins didn’t know this. There was drama.

That’s taking practicality too far.

I’m so sorry for your loss. That’s a beautiful story though. Children make sad days beautiful sometimes. I will never forget my nephews (two and three) playing in the grass and sitting quietly on stones at my grandmother’s service. My mom told me later that the people under the stones they chose to sit on would have…

Here its definitely more common to create (far less expensive too). The only person I know who doesn’t want cremation is my bf, and it seems to be a holdover from his catholic upbringing.

I don’t think this is too terrible. Laughter is a release. My brother and I absolutely horrified the funeral director when we picked out dad’s urn. My father collected junk and never got around to fixing it. So when we found an urn with an old plow and and a broken fence carved into it, we howled with laughter. It was…

Dear god, I’d have lost my shit on him. Warn a person!

Damaged people radar. It’s real and very powerful.

That is incredibly sad for her. My grandmother lost her virginity to a guy who promptly got killed in WWII. 60 years, a dedicated husband and 4 kids later, she still Mooney over him. I thought this was incredibly romantic until I found out he stopped answering her letters when she told him she was pregnant. (And…

I second this. My dad died 3 days before college midterms. I insisted I was coping and wrote the first exam. My prof ended up carrying me out of the room when I broke down 20 minutes in. I swore I was fine. Grief is a bitch.

How about random pill bottles full of ashes? My dad did that with his father. Just took two scoops out of the earn. Jewelry would have been an improvement.

My grandpa had long, delicate fingers. The embalming made them look like sausages. His was the first and last body I saw. 3 more grandparents and my dad later, I have no need to see that.

My grandpa died while visiting us at Christmas. Heart attack after his nap on Dec 19th. Begin shitshow. Grandma refuses to have funeral before Christmas. Christmas sucks. Huge fight over what city to have funeral in (most attending were over 80, travelling in the winter, etc). Anyway it was stressful. The bizarre part…

I started by threatening to use that 20k to buy clothes. He’s lazy, but he’s cheap. Honestly, he’s a success story- his siblings are incapable of functioning without a mommy.

We need to do that too. Everything still goes to his mother, including the house because we never amended the paperwork. If my bf keels over tomorrow, my shady BIL will find a way to convince my in laws to evict me so he can use my place as a base to cheat on his wife.

Absolutely. When When I met Mr. G, his mother was still packing his lunch for work and cutting his meat. He was 26. At 30, our power was shut off. There was 20 thousand dollars in his checking account, he jusr never bothered to pay his bills. I have spent 5 years breaking these habits. It’s not a woman’s job to baby…

I spent a week at Yellowstone in 2013. You would think the bears were the civilized, potty trained, reasonable creatures and the humans were feral, judging by the behavior of most tourists.

Beats the hell out of Doby Royal Heights.

The entitlement is just oozing out of this guy.