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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Feb 25

      My uncle is having a humanist funeral tomorrow. My mother, his sister, is not well enough to attend so we're going to read through the programme together and think of him, cantankerous old git that he was. ;-)

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Feb 25

      Isn't that a weird sentence? "My uncle is having a funeral...' He's not having anything. He is gone. We are having it. It's like 'He is dead.' He is not anything. There is no verb of being for him now. This is counterintuitive.

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        1. Stephen Henstock‏ @HenstockStephen Feb 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I'm reading @GodDoesnt 's book "Life in Light of Death" as a sort of secular devotional to keep focused on what actually matters, and it's amazing how we don't even have the grammatical structures to talk about death properly. We keep making the "now-non-subjects" into subjects.

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        1. JPSearle‏ @TmQuin Mar 4
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          Funerals are for the living. I'm sorry for your loss Pluckrose.

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        1. Tina Russell  🏛 Ἱερόδουλη Ἀφροδίτης‏ @Tina_Russell Feb 25
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          I'm actually keeping his soul in a jar in my room just to annoy you 😉pic.twitter.com/hNPcXMck9u

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        1. Hari Seldon‏ @glenn807 Feb 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          That is an odd sentence construct that I don't hear in the area where I live - Midwest US. The take in my circles has generally always been that funerals are for the living. Deep condolences on your family's loss.

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        1. John Sargeant‏ @JPSargeant78 Feb 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Agree where you are coming from. You are honouring his memory and marking his death. In that sense it is about you while reflecting on him. Sorry for your loss.

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        1. Biosock‏ @No_Appli Feb 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          He is literally a meme. A thought, kept alive by those who knew him.

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        1. Rabbi Josh Yuter‏Verified account @JYuter Feb 25
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          1. My condolences 2. The Talmud (B. Sanhedrin 47a) actually discusses if the funeral is for the deceased or the living, concludes it's for the honor of the deceased https://www.sefaria.org.il/Sanhedrin.47a?lang=bi …pic.twitter.com/yUXTMxmoHI

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        2. Chrisanthrope the Nullifidian‏ @2ManyOfUs Feb 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          This is why I have promised never to attend another funeral. I will not have a funeral of my own (it's already a condition of my will that no one gets anything if a funeral happens). Nor will I attend any other silly ancient ceremony Weddings Christenings That kind of nonsense

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        3. Chrisanthrope the Nullifidian‏ @2ManyOfUs Feb 25
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          I have also stipulated the most environmentally friendly method of getting rid of a body at the time of my death. I'm hoping one of these will turn me into fertilizer. It's only fair, I've eaten a lot of mushrooms over the decades.https://www.sciencealert.com/this-mushroom-suit-digests-your-body-after-you-die …

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