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Serious Question: What does an Atheist Funeral look like?

amdhunter

amdhunter

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I've only been to one funeral in my life. I was forced to attend church, sit during Mass and so on.

I didn't know the steps of prayers, didn't know I had to kneel on the wood in front of me at some point, and probably pissed off a few people there because of this.

So it got me thinking? Are all Funerals religion based? What happens when an Atheist dies? What kind of funeral should be expected? I grew up as a Catholic, so I am sure my family will bury me in a religious ceremony, but I probably won't care by then.

Just wondering how an Atheist is buried?
 
well about the same time I realized religion was F*tarded, I realized being buried in the ground was just as ridiculous. being frozen would be pretty sick though 🙂
 
The only one I attended, we had a memorial at his house and went around a circle telling memories of him. Then we went to this park/sink hole he liked and took turns spreading his ashes over it.
 
slayer202 said:
well about the same time I realized religion was F*tarded, I realized being buried in the ground was just as ridiculous. being frozen would be pretty sick though 🙂
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Yeah, but I wouldn't mind some kind of ceremony.
Every funeral home I've ever passed has a cross on it too.
 
slayer202 said:
well about the same time I realized religion was F*tarded, I realized being buried in the ground was just as ridiculous. being frozen would be pretty sick though 🙂
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I want to be frozen, pulverized, stuffed in a rocket, sent into orbit, and have my body burn during reentry.
 
I've been to one. Was hired to play drums for her "atheist funeral" which was basically a big party. It was freaking awesome.
 
I didn't know the steps of prayers, didn't know I had to kneel on the wood in front of me at some point, and probably pissed off a few people there because of this.
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If you can't enter an unfamiliar church and at least fake your way through the simple things like knowing when to knee, then you're a bigger idiot than I gave you credit for. ("Hmmmm, 150 people just started kneeling. Maybe I'll stay seated.") But, methinks you're just trolling in this thread.

And, "I grew up as a Catholic" - you're full of shit if you don't even know the Lord's Prayer and "grew up Catholic."
 
DrPizza said:
If you can't enter an unfamiliar church and at least fake your way through the simple things like knowing when to knee, then you're a bigger idiot than I gave you credit for. ("Hmmmm, 150 people just started kneeling. Maybe I'll stay seated.") But, methinks you're just trolling in this thread.

And, "I grew up as a Catholic" - you're full of shit if you don't even know the Lord's Prayer and "grew up Catholic."
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Well the biggest problem was the service was in Spanish. So I couldn't follow the words at all. I tried my hardest to mimic everyone, but you could easily see I didn't belong.

It wasn't all bad, but it's not something I'd like to spend my Sundays doing.

As for growing up Catholic, I attended church until about 2nd grade (7 years old) and don't remember much. A few family members still attend services on special occasion, and all of us have been baptized.
 
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Burn me and flush me down a toilet. It's not the religious aspect at all that makes me against traditional funerals, just that I don't think something like that should be done out of someone else's expense and trouble.

I'll probably set aside a few thousand from my estate to go towards some kind of party where all my friends can get drunk and crash with no worries. Party in my memory, or something. I don't know, I just know people like to have some form of finality, some closure.
 
i'd like my remains to be put into a huge blender and my liquid remains dropped by plane on to an orphanage playground.
 
Went to one last year. Family and friends talking about the person. I made the slideshow, video, and photo collage. Amazing man.
 
preslove said:
The only one I attended, we had a memorial at his house and went around a circle telling memories of him. Then we went to this park/sink hole he liked and took turns spreading his ashes over it.
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Well that sounds absolutely damned horrible.
 
DrPizza said:
And, "I grew up as a Catholic" - you're full of shit if you don't even know the Lord's Prayer and "grew up Catholic."
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LOL!

I know the Lord's Prayer even to this day just from playing four seasons of high school football in the South.
 
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