Re:The people hosting their own 'living funerals'
by acuozzo on Thursday February 01, 2024 @03:57PM
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Perhaps combined with the approach they take in Soylent Green in the Thanatorium!
Re:The people hosting their own 'living funerals'
by thelastparadise on Thursday February 01, 2024 @04:28PM
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You're catching a lot of flak here, but this seems to be the most beautiful and dignified way to go.
What better way to say goodbye to friends and family?
Re:The people hosting their own 'living funerals'
by emilfihlman on Thursday February 01, 2024 @03:50PM
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That's absolutely dystopian.
Re:The people hosting their own 'living funerals'
by bongodongobob on Thursday February 01, 2024 @03:57PM
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Dystopian, literally by definition, is not allowing people to die.
Re:The people hosting their own 'living funerals'
by Lornedon on Thursday February 01, 2024 @04:43PM
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I think people who are using "literally" as emphasis instead of really meaning "in a literal sense" are criticized too much. It's just how language evolves.
But saying "literally by definition" for something that has nothing to do with the definition doesn't feel like emphasis, it feels like lying.
Re:The people hosting their own 'living funerals'
by bongodongobob on Thursday February 01, 2024 @06:33PM
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"relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice."
Sounds pretty literal to me. Not letting a suffering person die.
You have the living funeral. You can even have the coffin and all of that.
Once it is over. The person has an induced complete metabolic failure. The person is quickly placed into the coffin. The procession for the burial can commence.
Give or take an hour it's pretty much the same as a real funeral.