Dude, the concept of eulogizing the dead isn’t anything new. It’s remained a tradition for millenia because it allows people to move on from grudges over issues that cannot be undone. Props to you for your painful commitment to honesty, but you’re acting like an cringy edgelord.
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I agree with this. Also, not everyone is an atheist and belief in the cold reality that we're just going to rot into the ground and consciousness is forever gone. There's people that still believe in the afterlife.
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Just read that it was “coined in 15th century England, when most people would have believed that the departing of the soul of a dead person was a literal physical event.” they’re technically going somewhere! an urn or box to decompose into soil & feed maggots!
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Maybe this term carrying on is symbolic of our implicit ban on death related materials, acceptance. A woman I talked to this summer who has worked her life in healthcare feels we need to have a conversation on death.
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Sure. Though, I'm much more irritated when people use the term "thank you for your service" when that's a euphamism for "you should have been tried for war crimes."
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Pass on responding here.
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the finality is unproven, nobody has found the witness. 'emerges from a bunch of neurons" is wish fulfillment.
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Passing simply means passing from this life. The connotations are individual and are frankly an area where people should exercise a tolerance they can’t muster elsewhere.
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It's less a "supernatural" connotation and more of a religious one. I know that for a lot of people that means the same thing, but for the religious community that believes in the afterlife, it genuinly is a passing. I don't think it waters down the significance of death for them
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Since nobody "knows" what happens when the physical body dies, it becomes a matter of "belief". That belief is what we all must decide upon.
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Says you, Tracey.
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For the first 500+ years the Christian church taught the doctrine of past & future lives as dogma. This was changed by the emperor Justinian against the protest of the pope.
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not merely dead, but really quite sincerely dead. Very seriously, when will there be some measure of accountability?
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Religious connotations, sure. But don’t see how passing “obscures the finality of ceased earthly existence”.
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