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As soon as I can get Mrs. Sirius, (Aryah_Sirius) to tie up loose ends. Okay, so I have a loose end or two of my own. So now it's looking like 2 or 3 YEARS from now, which could be an eternity. How do you like living down there? Stuff to do?

It's now that I'm beginning to see "age spots" and the effects of sun damage. That's only going to get worse, I'm sure. I used to be quite athletic and very graceful and spatially aware. Now, I bump into things and experience slips and falls that I never experienced when I was younger. I used to hear about older people falling and breaking their hips and wondering why they fall so often. I'm not old yet, but I can already detect this trend of losing spatial awareness and balance. It's interesting for me to observe, not just how I have changed, but how other people react to how I've changed

I appreciate the conversation about this topic! I didn't have any illusions about changing your mind, so it's not the "bottom line" that interests me, but instead,the discussion of a topic that most people evidently avoid. But that's part of my point here. I think that people avoid the subject, never get around to discussing the relative merits/detriments of the options. So they end up defaulting to the traditional/antiquated/obsolete model. I'm sure that the funeral business appreciates the failure of the general public to adopt or even consider a new paradigm. I never said that I woul

Thanks for the response. Do you see the eventual need for mankind to develop alternatives to the laid-out-longways burial sites? How do you reconcile the eventual environmental damage, as well as the waste of valuable land resources, given the exploding population, worldwide? Or do you choose to not consider these things? Visualize all of the other graves in the cemetery, most of them no longer visited by anyone. In a generation or two, this will be the situation at your gravesite and it will be the situation of everyone's gravesite. Yet, there you are for a couple of hundred years or possibl

What do you mean by "I ...... cannot imagine how much fun will be had tomorrow." What does enjoyment of holidays have to do with a forward-thinking view of funeral processions? Are you implying that unless someone shares your outlook, they can't possibly experience enjoyment? I also don't understand "you will be a good lobbyist". What do those previously discussed views have to do with lobbying? One more thing -- I'm so "positive"? What does endorsing cremation have to do with negativity? I'm proposing a BETTER way to do things so that people in the city/suburbs aren't inconvenienced by

To answer the original question, "who could it be?" - It could very well be a grandmother or a veteran -- or it could be a gang leader who had lived a life of crime,along with the members of the procession. If you're grateful to veterans or need to tell grandma that you love her -- make that expression to them while they are alive! About funeral processions - Consider that this is an antiquated custom that started when everyone in town knew you. The custom continued as towns grew larger and people, needing to yeild to a lengthy procession, would even get out of their vehicles by the s

I avoid the drama by ignoring the drama-types. So I have a lot of people on ignore!

Just a little snow - What's the big deal? However -- an ICE STORM? That's something different! No need to go to the grocery store if it's just a few snow flakes.

On a 4-lane highway, there's nothing that precludes a vehicle from passing a procession. They often drive slowly. On a two-lane road, of course not - it would not be safe. It's also not safe for people to pull over on a four lane highway because pulling back on the highway from the shoulder could be dangerous, not to mention that sometimes there is no shoulder. It's the 21st Century! There are seven billion people presently living and frankly there is not sufficient room for people to be laid out longways in suburban cemeteries. It's unreasonable, even inconsiderate to ask every driver t

Just go to your first four words, Mr. Dis. All of the other stuff is specious meme-speak. Continue engaging in anti-social drivelcourse with your groupthink clique while the doers actually work on the problems that you continue to create for us.

As a person makes more money, the scale goes up! One is able to contribute more to his own care, so his premiums go up. This seems responsible, to me. Sorry that you have big surgery coming up. I'm sure that the surgery alone is worrisome. But you have to have the surgery! It may be that people on a fixed income are able to work out repayment. It may be that you end up being one of the people who will never repay back into the system all that you've received from it. That's the way that insurance was designed to work, as a socialistic model where the healthy people pay for the sick people. In

You said "without subsidy" -- but Obamacare includes a subsidy. What is it for you WITH the subsidy? How much are people hurt by people who have NO insurance, who are overcome by disease or have a serious accident? What has BEEN happening is that WE'VE been paying their medical bills! They've just walked away from them because they could. This puts a little more responsibility on the individual to pay his own way, his own premiums, rather than pile up a bunch of bills and default on them -- or just die because they didn't get the healthcare they needed?Who is not in favor of people putting so

So you've applied for ObamaCare? Great! If you were to get really sick, it would cost so much more than $800 a month for your medical bills. Certainly you want to pay your fair share of your own medical bills, right? To want others, the well people, to pay YOUR medical bills -- that would be socialism, wouldn't it? You can clear something up, though -- Did Obama set the rates? Or did the individual insurance companies set them? If the ACA opened up the competitive process to the free market and the free market is NOT WORKING in healthcare - then maybe a free market solution is not the proper

First of all, there's no such thing as a "one world government". It's a spooky thing that rabble-rousers bring up to make nervous-nellies shaking in the corner. Logistically the concept is unworkable and if you need a good example, just look at Great Britain's attempt to colonize the world and at the USA's current attempt to control political events on the other side of the world. A one-world government is also unmanageable. How ironic (or at least inconsistent) that the people who believe that a one world government is possible also believe that it's impossible for a Federal system to properl

You signed up for ObamaCare in Georgia and you have to pay $400 a month with a deductible of $2000? When you signed up, was it a truly competitive situation, where ALL health insurance providers competed for your business? Or were there just a few, selected by the State of Georgia? I have only gone through the registration process because when I was filling out the registration I didn't have my tax information in front of me. So I wasn't able to view the choices. It seems like the more open the process is to competition, the less people will have to pay. The marketplace should decide

Grizzard is talking about Bubba and Earl at a University of Georgia football game. Georgia is facing Alabama for the Southeastern Conference championship and a trip to the Sugar Bowl. The game is on national TV and 80,000 people are in the stands. That’s when Bubba notices Georgia’s mascot, an English Bulldog, licking himself. Bubba turns to Earl and says, “I wish I could do that!” Earl looks at Bubba and says, “That dog would BITE Yeewwww!”

You all do know that the Constitution requires that the full faith and credit of the United States has to be upheld without question, right? This is what Ted Cruz was attempting to leverage - the full faith and credit. He was willing to have our country default on bills already rung up by Congress, even though doing so would violate a Constitutional mandate. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Phil Gingrey and a host of other Tea Party types all voted to default on our obligations. Consider that a default would have cost our nation trillions in interest rate hikes that would have resulted from a

You know that Lewis lost some of his speech function when he was beaten nearly to death by white men, right?

Pearl (Jethro's mother) is Jed's cousin, not his sister-in-law. He calls her, "Cousin Pearl", as does Ellie May. Ellie May would be Jethro's first cousin if Pearl were Jed's sister, but she's not.

For one thing, at least you're honest enough to own the shutdown! Most of the GOP and all of the meme-producing pundits are trying to blame (guess who) the President. Clearly, the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party is holding the country hostage, including their own partners-in-crime, the mainstream (such as it is) Republicans. But what you're arguing is ludicrous! You're saying that government officials, elected to do the will of the people, are shutting down the very institution that they were elected to administrate? When they shut down all of the programs designed to help the p

Why did Jethro call Jed Clampett, "Uncle Jed"? Jethro's mother was "Cousin Pearl Bodine", Jed's cousin. I get that Jethro called Granny, "Granny" out of respect, not because he was related to her (Granny was a Moses, Jed's mother-in-law). But why did he call his second cousin, Jed, "Uncle Jed"? (a couple of days ago, I woke up with that random question - Apparently my subconscious had difficulty sorting out that discrepancy)

"We all want to see him fail" ???- Nevermind if his failure hurts your fellow countrymen - It's all about making sure the President fails. And again - this isn't about policies, because the GOP declared against him BEFORE any policies were in place! This is about Barack Obama being President of the United States and the "Solid South" having a superficial problem with his election. Obama has been President for five years. There are three to go. How is the "we all want to see him fail" working out for you and the GOP? The GOP is predicted to lose more seats in the House in the 2014 election

You have it exactly backward. Remember the Mitch McConnell pledge after Obama's inauguration? It was that his number one job was to make him a one-term President. At every turn, the GOP has opposed him, right from the start! There was birtherism, then he was a muslim, and every initiative Obama undertook, the GOP attacked him, even on bills that they authored! This undermining of our government and disrespect of the Presidency FROM THE START is unprecedented. I say "from the start" because it's not in response to what the President DID, it's who he was, the first black President. The solid sou

What do you think GROUPS are made of, except for individuals? You're saying that things are supposed to be made better for everybody WITHOUT making it better for individuals? Promoting the General Welfare means making things better for everybody. Not just some people - that would be specific! EVERYBODY, everybody! The "Tea Party" isn't conservative. They're radical reactionaries. There's nothing conservative about wanting to use up all of our natural resources in one lifetime. Where's the conservation in that? There's nothing conservative about holding the government hostage over ideologic

Mission statements are written for general purposes. Sign-up has just begun. It doesn't even take effect until 2014! The competitive pressure for insurance companies to lower their prices to get business, therefore, hasn't kicked in. If you believe in a free market, you have to let the market work. In the context of explaining the purpose of this government, the founding fathers used the term, "general welfare" to describe a situation where the goal is to make things better for the citizenry. Who is challenging that, except for the Congressional hostage takers and their head-nodding, meme