should a dead dude be unearthed once a year?

[NAD]

the reason i ask is because everyone is making tribute threads to cliff burton on bass forums today, and i sorta feel like telling them to get over it. he's dead. it sucks. let him rest. i've never gone to a funeral and i hope not to, to me it's an excuse to gather around people you don't like and cry about someone you didn't even know. lame.

but then again, should tribute be paid on such anniversaries of tragedy? it's a bit morbid to me, but then again i owe him a lot so maybe i should at least raise a pint to him this evening.

either way, death is stupid but it's gonna happen to everyone eventually.

 

[Chromatose]

try telling that to the easter bunny!

 

[NAD]

hahahahahahhahahahahahahaha

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Well, it's not like they say goodbye to him in person each year... I'll raise a pint to him when the weekend comes, that's for sure!

 

[dorian gray]

uncle junior realized a good way to get out while under house arrest was to go to funerals of "relatives". he went to like one a day for a month but he got real depressed and finally he just started bawling. it was pretty funny.

didnt cliff burton die back in 1732 or something? whats the big deal?

 

[lizard]

I lost my patience one day on a thread where someone was boo hoo-ing about that guy Chuck Schuldiner from Death being dead.

I understand the guy was influential.

I understand he deserves some level of respect, if not for his music, but at least for being a pioneer and having integrity.

I understand that he died too young, but lots of people have died alot younger.

but unless you were having an affair with him or something, move on. I'm way more of an irish-wake kind of guy ~ celebrate the life with food and booze, it's gotta be way more healthy than this constant hand-wringing and knashing of teeth.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

yeah i'm set just cranking up master of puppets and hoisting a pint, no point in dwelling on it

 

[lurch70]

can't wait until Dimebag's anniversary rolls around ... will be like a true redneck celebration ,,, ugh

 

[NAD]

i remember for like 2 weeks after dimebag died we used the excuse "dimebag would've wanted it this way" for everything.

"hey man grab another beer."
"no thanks, i'm pretty drunk."
"dude, dimebag would've wanted it this way."
"...you're right."

 

[J.]

never been to a funeral? sheesh, man.

I've been the pall-bearer for two already. the gathering afterwards is OK, with drinks and food and stuff. and the ride to the funeral site is cool because cops give you the right of way to be a dick on the road.

 

[NAD]

well in all fairness i've never been asked to go to one. any close relatives that have died have been cremated.

but if/when i'm ever expected to go to a funeral, i will have to think about it. i truly find them sick and would only go to avoid showing disrespect.

 

[J.]

I haven't been to many, mostly just old relatives I barely knew. But I did attend the funeral for a dude that was my best bud when I was but a wee little lad. He died of heart complications a few years ago. I don't think they're sick. It's just a way for people who knew the deceased to gather and reminisce about the dead guy/girl and how you know him/her and crazy shit you did and stuff.

 

[Hell Mike]

I've been to three, one was nice (Great-grandma who died two weeks before turning 103), one was sad and good (Aunt, cancer, three kids) and one was fucking crap and pissed me off (uncle, hung himself, very christian funeral which he WOULD NOT have wanted but his fag parents did)

 

[cthulufhtagn]

only 2 funerals i've ever been to were catholic, and yeah, yeeesh

@ nad, "dimebag would've wanted it this way"

 

[Chromatose]

"I can't believe I ate a whole pan of funeral fudge!!!"

 

[General Zod]

i've never gone to a funeral...

You're fortunate. I've been to a few too many for folks under 30. It really gives you a different perspective, when you lose someone whose 70+.

but then again, should tribute be paid on such anniversaries of tragedy?

For fallen friends, I like to raise a glass and have a good cigar on their birthday or the anniversary of their death. I think it's important to remember the people who touched your life. While I appreciate grieving for someone who you;ve never met, I have to wonder how many of the people have experienced the pain of losing someone they were close to, who was in the prime of life.

Zod

 

[dorian gray]

funerals remind me of both "phantasm" and "the big lebowski". both of which fucking rule.

 

[lizard]

I've been to one funeral (the dad of a friend) but never seen a dead body.

I couldn't deal with the cultures where people kiss the dead person. I'm a good WASP and like to keep my emotions tightly wrapped into my pressure cooker of a personna.

 

[Hell Mike]

Aunt, cancer, three kids

did another of these today, sucks

 

[Krilons Resa]

Sorry man. My condolences.