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Re:The Lonely Funeral Project in Amsterdam by PreInternet01 on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @11:54AM (#39980767)
> using a dead person as as a prop to make you feel better about yourself

No, "feel better" is definitely not what myself (nor anyone else involved in this program, as far as I'm aware) is trying to achieve here.

I know that a deceased person doesn't care about pretty much anything. Yet, that doesn't preclude me from caring about them, does it?

Re:The Lonely Funeral Project in Amsterdam by nobody9999 on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @10:28PM (#39986393)
>I know that a deceased person doesn't care about pretty much anything. Yet, that doesn't preclude me from caring about them, does it?

As I said:

>Funerals, like life, are for the living. The dead don't care -- they're dead.

As such, what you're doing isn't to benefit the dead. Nothing can benefit them.

It's to benefit the living as I said. And there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's a lovely thing to do.

But it doesn't benefit the dead in any way and pretending it does seems disingenuous IMHO.

That said, knock yourself out. I have no issue with what you're doing.