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How should Earth funerals be held?

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There's...a lot that goes into tit...why?

I want to have one.

For...yourself?

...no, not myself. I'm not... dead.

Well, no, but sometimes people plan these things out way in advance.

I won't.

... How should I?

Well. You need somewhere to bury them...a plot, y'gotta buy that...a casket...get someone to say somethin'...y'can either have an actually funeral with the casket, or a memorial service, with a picture or somethin', so the body isn't right there....

Yes... 'say something'? What should be said?

There is no body.

Just...memories about...whoever.

Oh. Memorial service, then. My parents...when they died there wasn't much left so...it was cremated and the ashes were scattered in the river behind our house...that's another way to go.

That sounds nice.

There's nothing to burn.

Then that's good. And...well, usually people like t'have somethin'...tangible to hold onto...

Everyone? What kind of things?

Lots of them. I-I don't know...flowers, sometimes...sand, dirt...a rock..somethin' to scatter or bury just so they have somewhere to visit...

I think... I have an idea. If it's only something to bury...

It's...well, it's good for closure. *hesitates* Who...?

It's to honor people.

*...* Nicholas.

That too.

*softer* Oh.

I... will.

If...y'have anymore questions, or...

I...

No. It's fine. Thank you.

Whoa. Alien wants a funeral huh?

What?

I thought you aliens had your own way of doing stuff. Why use our method?

*slowly* It's not for me.

But one of your people right?

No.

Oh. Then who?

That's none of your business.

Oi. I was just trying to be friendly!

Don't know many people around here...

From what I have seen, there is a service where remaining family or a minister speak about the loss, a procession, then a burial.

What do they say?

Procession of who?

It is usually memories about the... person, and the procession is friends and relatives following the hearse to a grave site where the burial happens.

Edited 2009-02-16 22:44 (UTC)

...alright.

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