Funeral Pyres? What say you?

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Posted: 1/31/2011 2:22:16 PM EDT

I think a funeral pyre would be cool.

I confess, this is mostly about laughing at the colorado libs in the story.

By all accounts, Belinda Ellis was a free spirit. During the last years of her life, she lived with her husband and her boyfriend, Skip Benson, 59.

"We had a friendship between the three of us that very few people could share," said Randy Ellis, 51.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110131/ap_on_re_us/us_mountain_funeral_pyre

Talk about a rocky mountain high.

Amid the scent of juniper and burning wood was a smell of marijuana from a bag that someone dropped into the pyre. Someone joked that perhaps they also should have poured in some Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:23:37 PM EDT

[#1]

Way cooler than getting tossed into an industrial oven.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:24:59 PM EDT

[#2]

Sounds like an "air burial" would have served her well.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:27:39 PM EDT

[#3]

I've been present when bodies were burned. Do you really want the last memories of your loved one being that of the entire funeral procession puking their guts out?

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:28:31 PM EDT

[#4]

Makes more sense to me rather than dumping a butt load of money on a funeral home, embalming, casket, grave stone etc etc etc.

Wonder what it smells like...

Bill

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:31:39 PM EDT

[#5]

Stick me in my boat , light it up and point me out to sea

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:34:02 PM EDT

[#6]

I would bet that there is a law prohibiting it.

Big funeral lobbyists and all.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:35:03 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Makes more sense to me rather than dumping a butt load of money on a funeral home, embalming, casket, grave stone etc etc etc.

Wonder what it smells like...

Bill

Take a couple gallons of rancid bacon fat and throw it into the fireplace. The sounds are worse. Fat frying and popping, organs bursting, etc.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:35:45 PM EDT

[#8]

No time to wallow in the mire.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:35:59 PM EDT

[#9]

Is it wrong to feel that Libs should do this before they croak?

Danny

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:37:08 PM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:38:45 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
No time to wallow in the mire.

First thing that popped in my head when I saw the thread title.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:40:00 PM EDT

[#12]

Something about watching a dead loved one burn doesnt appeal to me.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:40:20 PM EDT

[#13]

Lo, there do I see smelly hippies.

Lo, there do I see femnazi wiccans.

And weirdos and wackos

Lo, there do I see the line of libtards

Back to the 1960s.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:44:13 PM EDT

[#14]

Sounds OK to me. Needs a bigger pyre, though.

Embalming is just littering.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:47:11 PM EDT

[#15]

It was good enough for Anakin Skywalker.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:49:03 PM EDT

[#16]

Flames are way to small. Needs more gasoline.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:50:03 PM EDT

[#17]

At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky.

It's medieval.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:52:09 PM EDT

[#18]

I want to be lit on fire and then launched from a catapult.

Posted: 1/31/2011 2:54:08 PM EDT

[#19]

I think 98% of people have no concept of how nauseating the experience is - not the least of it being the smell.

Posted: 1/31/2011 3:04:13 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I think 98% of people have no concept of how nauseating the experience is - not the least of it being the smell.

Probably best to leave it to the pros. Makes sense to save money though.

Posted: 1/31/2011 3:06:18 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

I think 98% of people have no concept of how nauseating the experience is - not the least of it being the smell.

If I am dead then I won't smell a thing.

Posted: 1/31/2011 3:40:55 PM EDT

[#22]

I want my pyre in a huge lake with a half a forrest worth of wood soaked in gasoline and old motor oil to be lit on fire with a flaming arrow

ETA: And can these fucking hipster hippie fuckfaces please find another beer to coddle around? I get self conscious at the register for carrying on a long standing family tradition of drinking some ol' pabst

Posted: 1/31/2011 3:53:35 PM EDT

[#23]

The pyre is supposed to be 10' in the air or better to keep onlookers from being overcome with the initial smoke.

Posted: 1/31/2011 4:09:09 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

The pyre is supposed to be 10' in the air or better to keep onlookers from being overcome with the initial smoke.

Burn me.

Pound any fragments left to dust.

Pour me on the White House so the whole world can see my ASH.

Posted: 1/31/2011 4:13:11 PM EDT

[#25]

Since when was drinking pabst a hipster/hippy thing? Eastwood drinks pabst.

Posted: 1/31/2011 4:15:14 PM EDT

[#26]

On the scene a priest appears,
Sinners falling at his knees

Satan sends out funeral pyres,
Caste the priest into the fire.

It's the place for all bad sinners,
Watch them eating dead rat cinders.

I guess it's the same,
Where ever you may go.

OH LORD YEAH!

O. Osbourne

Bilster

Posted: 1/31/2011 4:19:08 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
It was good enough for Anakin Skywalker.

http://earthfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/pyre.jpg

Just the armor.

Posted: 1/31/2011 4:39:34 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Since when was drinking pabst a hipster/hippy thing? Eastwood drinks pabst.

Thats what I'm sayin - My grandpa was like Walt Kawalkski (sp?) except with a lever action .243 and a Farmall A

ETA: 0h, btw, Arfcom and my PBR drinkin', arab scarf neck-wrapping friend told me it was 2 hip 2 b square

Posted: 1/31/2011 4:40:09 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Since when was drinking pabst a hipster/hippy thing? Eastwood drinks pabst.

You know Clint is a veggie eatin' socialist that believes in common sense gun control right ?
Oh and BTW, John Wayne was gay.

Posted: 1/31/2011 4:42:02 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Stick me in my boat , light it up and point me out to sea

Valhalla, I am coming....

Posted: 1/31/2011 4:46:09 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Since when was drinking pabst a hipster/hippy thing? Eastwood drinks pabst.

You know Clint is a veggie eaten' socialist that believes in common sense gun control right ?
Oh and BTW, John Wayne was gay.

+1

The CHARACTERS that actors play in movies are often times quite different than their actual personalities

Posted: 1/31/2011 5:37:06 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
No time to wallow in the mire.

+1 , Jim Morrison would be proud.

Posted: 1/31/2011 5:40:11 PM EDT

[#33]

Cool.

Posted: 1/31/2011 5:41:56 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Since when was drinking pabst a hipster/hippy thing? Eastwood drinks pabst.

You know Clint is a veggie eatin' socialist that believes in common sense gun control right ?
Oh and BTW, John Wayne was gay.

The fuck?

Posted: 1/31/2011 5:49:29 PM EDT

[#35]

I feel a chill in my heart

Like lingering winter cold

I and my son are torn apart

He was just 6 winters old

My first-born was he

And the last of my kin

The last one to carry my name

Death smiled at him its deadly grin

There is no one for me to blame

The fate of Norns await us all

There is no way to escape

The day to answer Oden's call

Or walk through hel's gate

I carry him to my ship

He seems to be asleep

But the deep blue colour of his lips

Is enough to make me weep

No man should have to bury his child

Yet this has been my share

The tears i shed run bitter and wild

It's a heavy burden to bear

His body feels so light in my arms

His skin is pale as snow

Yet his weight feels heavy in my heart

As my sadness continues to grow

Allfather!

What fate has been given me?

Why must I suffer?

Why must I feel this pain?

Allfather!

LIfe has lost it's meaning to me

I think I'm going insane!

I lay him down on a pyre

A burial worthy a king

And as I lie down by his side

I hear the weaving norns sing

The fate of Norns await us all

There is no way to escape

The day to answer Oden's call

Or walk through hel's gate

The fate of Norns await us all

I know this to be true

It's time to answer Odens's call

My son, he calls for me and you

Posted: 1/31/2011 6:05:38 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Since when was drinking pabst a hipster/hippy thing? Eastwood drinks pabst.

You know Clint is a veggie eatin' socialist that believes in common sense gun control right ?

Oh and BTW, John Wayne was gay.

The fuck?

I installed 2-way mirrors at his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door wearing a dress.

Posted: 1/31/2011 6:06:13 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Since when was drinking pabst a hipster/hippy thing? Eastwood drinks pabst.

You know Clint is a veggie eatin' socialist that believes in common sense gun control right ?

Oh and BTW, John Wayne was gay.

The fuck?

I installed 2-way mirrors at his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door wearing a dress.

Did you tap that?

Posted: 1/31/2011 7:18:36 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Way cooler than getting tossed into an industrial oven.

I would be okay with this

Posted: 1/31/2011 7:22:32 PM EDT

[#39]

Sky burial for me.

Posted: 1/31/2011 7:25:10 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
I've been present when bodies were burned. Do you really want the last memories of your loved one being that of the entire funeral procession puking their guts out?

That's why I want a viking funeral.

And if everyone shows up on motorcycles it'll be a biking funeral!

Posted: 1/31/2011 7:27:16 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Sky burial for me.

They a new method of getting rid of the body, they use chemicals and there is no muss no fuss. And it is clean. BUT I forget the name of the process.

Posted: 1/31/2011 7:30:34 PM EDT

[#42]

Yeah, pyres at sea are cool as hel but standing over a corpse and smelling and watching it boil and burst is pretty disgusting.

Posted: 1/31/2011 7:35:43 PM EDT

[#43]

I would prefer a funeral pyre.

But I want to be completely obliterated, so my bones and teeth need to be burned with thermite.

Posted: 1/31/2011 7:37:45 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
I would prefer a funeral pyre.

But I want to be completely obliterated, so my bones and teeth need to be burned with thermite.

Technoviking funeral?

Posted: 1/31/2011 7:40:23 PM EDT

[#45]

If SHTF, there will be funeral pyres

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