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I was just, watching the sun set from my windows, it’s really, bright, shining, but as my gaze followed it sank, I was carrying on in conversation, as I’d watched it sank, lower, and lower! One evening, I was having a phone conversation with an old friend, she said, that after old age came, it’s like how fast the sun had sunk toward the west at sunset, and so, she’d need to get all of her affairs into order. I’d told her, that there was just, this final, dying ray of light in me, so, I’d already, settled my final affairs already.
After we pass on, the first thing that came would be the funeral, and there’s, a whole lot to consider in this matter. With the differences in economical wellbeing, there is this, huge differences between the rich and the poor anywhere from the funeral, to the graves. People’s views toward funerals nowadays had transcended beyond the traditional, especially on the matter of burial sites, a lot of people had chosen to have their ashes spilled onto the plants. Saving up the spaces, very environmental, plus, very equal too. People are getting involved in tree burials, flower burials, as well as sea burials too, it’d been told, that the clients are booked very full, and we’d needed to be on a waiting list for it. And the views of feng shui of the ancestors’ graves had become, outdated, and those burial sites which were said, to make their offspring live better off, had become a huge joke, to the younger generations’ life processes.
But, you cannot do away with the rituals of the funeral…
this is what it would be physically, and, virtually, it’d taken up a whol lot less space…
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If you can cope with your death with a sense of humor, then, you can do away with the funeral processions, as well as the cemeteries, so, I don’t want a combo.
Before the Memorial Day, my daughter and I sat in jammed up traffic, I’d laughed, and joked with them, that they wouldn’t have to come in with the crowd later on, she’d hit me. But that, is the truth!
After the Memorial Days, I’d read an article in the commentary column of the UND papers by Madam Yu-Fang Liang “Let’s All Live Together on the Walls………Go on Facebook, and You Shall Become Immortal”, seeing how the younger generations are commemorating their lost friends on FB, it’s not what the older generations would have come up with. On their posts, they’d sent their friends’ favorite foods, poetic verses, asked if their deceased loved ones are okay in another world, along with giving kudos too………
The American writer, Brandon Ambrosino discussed the trend of “immortality” made possible by Facebook; there are over eight thousand FB users who are dying every single day……and, Facebook is becoming a growing cemetery.
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Can we call it “burial sites on the Clouds” then? Wow, that would be, even more open and wide. Earth: we’d said it disregard that order of the single for me now.
So, this, is the trend here, because as we become more and more aware, we’d realized, that there’s only little land, and, if we get buried, inside a casket when we’re dead, that would not only take up the spaces in the cemeteries, but it’d also cost the prices of having our coffins made, and so, nowadays, we’re all looking for a more convenient, simpler way to dealing, as life is already, getting more and more complicated by the days, we’d started, simplifying the plans we have made for our own deaths now too.
Life, the Obstacle Course 