"Rest In Peace" is such a weird saying...

[DangerAardvark]

...because it implies the alternative is to haunt the Earth as a vengeful poltergeist. You might as well say "try not to come back as a zombie".

 

[Alone]

I think it's just a way of saying "You finally get to have some peace."

 

[Crono]

It's redundant. Non-peaceful rest isn't restful.
So I guess you could just say "rest" and put that on tombstones.

 

[zinfamous]

well, yeah. that's pretty much where it stems from, iirc.

Furthermore, it's like saying "don't be a jackass and return to bug us all for eternity."

 

[RaistlinZ]

I think the saying had more relevance in the times of grave robbers and tomb raiders.

 

[Alone]

""Requiescat in pace" is a prayer that the deceased may rest peacefully, not in torment, while awaiting Judgment Day."

 

[Rubycon]

Better than Rest in pieces.

 

[Jeff7]

Because "Rest in Pieces" might evoke horrifying memories of the lawnmower accident which caused his death.




...curse you, Rubycon!!!!!
I shall have my revenge one day. Perhaps with some sort of lawnmowing device.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Alone
""Requiescat in pace" is a prayer that the deceased may rest peacefully, not in torment, while awaiting Judgment Day."

"In Protestant Christianity, the belief that the dead wait in Hades until Judgment Day has largely been replaced with the belief that the dead go to their respective fates immediately after death (see particular judgment)."

I don't know how or when the original belief (which is the correct one) was replaced by the latter. Anyone?

 

[Born2bwire]

You could be resting in piec....

DAMN YOU Rubycon!

 

[Vic]

No, the alternative is that the survivors, unable to get over their loss and their grief, destroy their own lives. Which (I suppose in a very superstitious way) would be akin to haunting. So rest in peace is a reminder to the living to let the dead go.

 

[sdifox]

You don't want them to come back as zombies.

 

[Iron Woode]

Rest In Peace

 

[Perknose]

I think I have this epigrammatic conundrum all figured out. It goes like this:

The first law of thermodynamics states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and the hole (of the grave) is greater than any one piece (of the corpse), so that grave hole can fit all the peace, and still have room for the rest.

:laugh:

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Because "Rest in Pieces" might evoke horrifying memories of the lawnmower accident which caused his death.




...curse you, Rubycon!!!!!
I shall have my revenge one day. Perhaps with some sort of lawnmowing device.

Someone already tried and failed miserably.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: Perknose
I think I have this epigrammatic conundrum all figured out. It goes like this:

The first law of thermodynamics states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and the hole (of the grave) is greater than any one piece (of the corpse), so that grave hole can fit all the peace, and still have room for the rest.

:laugh:

I always thought of it like this:

"All of you can fit into the hole with space to spare. Therefore, you can rest. At the same time, there is enough room to put in plenty of peace. Thus you are resting in peace."

Personally, I find the idea of resting in some peace to be really soothing.

 

[jjzelinski]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
...because it implies the alternative is to haunt the Earth as a vengeful poltergeist. You might as well say "try not to come back as a zombie".

lol, I don't think I'll look at the expression quite the same way.