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originally posted in: How can people be so daft?
11/7/2014 3:27:53 AM
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Death is a part of life, get over it. If I were a teacher in this situation I wouldn't want students signing a card giving their condolences, while yes it is respectful, signing a card is pitiful, literally. You are signing it out pity, and half the time you may not even that well acquainted with the person the cards being given to, empathy is one thing, but sympathy in this situation is only happening because it's "right" and if you didn't give sympathy, a negative opinion would fall upon you. That's completely fake, undesirable, and pathetic. I feel like funerals are idiotic as well, waste of money, waste of everyone's time, when I die I want my family to respect me as the man I was, maybe celebrate my life with a formal dinner or something, and use the 5k usually spent on a funeral to go on a vacation to get over the grief of losing a loved one. Why the fûck should my family be paying 5k just so everyone out of my immediate family can go to an old dusty house to see me in my final resting place to watch my immediate family grieve over me. It's an entirely pitiful experience, by definition. It wastes everyone's time, and is just a 3 hour flashing light in everyone of my immediate family's eyes saying "hey guess what, mikes dead haha motherfûcker good luck next time"
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  • [quote]Death is a part of life, get over it.[/quote] Yep, Just lost my dad a few days ago. Although I respect your opinion, everyone is different. There's not a single card, flower, wish, thought, that made me feel like people were acting out of pity for me. It made me feel they cared, about me. And about your wishes for your funeral, I recommend you put it in writing. It will be a lot easier on your family.

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  • It was my friend's idea, so she must automatically be stupid for helping a professor who lost her mother get better. By signing, we all encourage her to stay. I don’t agree with your disgusting logic.

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  • [quote]It was my friend's idea, so she must automatically be stupid for helping a professor who lost her mother get better. By signing, we all encourage her to stay. I don’t agree with your disgusting logic.[/quote] Woah now, back up and reread. I never ever called anything about your situation stupid, I said specifically that it was respectful. I called the idea of funerals stupid. However, I did say the entire concept of everyone signing cards was pitiful. While it is a show of social benevolence, sympathy derived from social necessity is simply compassionless. The fact that they [i]need[/i] to sign the card to show condolences to someone they do not know or [i]genuinely[/i] care about is disgusting. The teacher does not need "help". Your teacher needs closure with the fact that one of the closest individuals in this world is forever gone, and she needs time to grief and mourn. The students who have an actual platonic relationship with the woman giving there condolences is a completely respectable thing, but demeaning others who did not have this platonic relationship with her, and therefor cannot show true compassion through sympathy for her is completely void of the very foundation of respect.

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  • Don't really agree. Many students in my level had her last year so I would say it is nice for them to sign.

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  • It's definitely a nice gesture, but do you think everyone who signed genuinely cared? I wouldn't make an assumption like that, and I usually leave the casino with a little extra.

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  • I would say so. I bet the 1st years would not care but then again they were not asked to sign the card. Only 2nd to 4th year were.

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