Lana may be strange but she's not the only one....

[ladyvyola]

Jeesh! Just when you think you've seen everything -- LifeGem. Read all about how to have the ashy remains of your loved ones crushed into an enduring memorial of your morbid preocupation with the past.

And to add to the whole hideous affair, check out the captions on those tastefully faded photos: "Take me along...", "I'll be there."

::blergh:: Don't forget to check out the perky "Cremation Education" page, which of course neglects to mention that in Georgia, you pays your money and you takes your chances.

Comments

ooooooookay

[sidewinder.livejournal.com]

it takes a lot to do this to me, but can we say

SQUICK!!!

[iennae.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it would be quite cool. Especially since it's cheaper than burying someone almost. Rather than having to haunt the old graveyard, I could be forever journeying around the world as my children, and children's children pass the ring down the line. :)

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

Part of me thinks it's cool too. I have few hangups about this sort of thing. (I get that from my mom -- we've been talking for years about how I'm going to freeze her ashes in icecubes with little toothpick and construction paper sails and set her bobbing out into the ocean. She seems to like the idea. *g*) Do what you want with our bodies; we both know that the person is long gone.

However, not everyone feels that way and the tone of the page just puts my teeth on edge for some reason. I think it's the whole idea of it being done to someone who would be really bothered by the idea or of the stone being given to someone uncomfortable with it. I've seen too many people's buttons get pushed -- "what do you mean, you don't want to be buried next to Mom?", "I am NOT having an urn of ashes in this house!", "I always thought you'd tend my plot just like I tended your sainted father's for the last twenty years", et cetera, to not see the downside to this sort of thing.

[jcalanthe]

I have to ask: How on earth do you find these things??

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

The friendsfriends page is a strange and wonderous thing....