I got a laugh out of it! But again, to me it is just obscene as the fancy caskets that people really can't afford get talked into. I recognise that I've got a different sense of humor.
Bad Cynic. Don't you remember? You need to put a WARNING in the title for the easily offended. LOL It's the new age you know. We are all responsible for each other. Autonomy is dead.
love it! we have a family funeral home (side business) and while i will not have a casket i did want my mom to have whatever she wanted and i'd like the same for my dad, no matter what the cost. it's just not for me or my DH :-) ~ liz
I think he would have laughed too.I think I heard he is going to be cremated so that might work. DH and I have ours all planned and paid for and got the cheapest we could.We have about decided that we want to be cremated though.I can't see spending a fortune for something that will never be seen or used again!
I read the title, Gary Coleman's Casket and thought it would be something about the ex-wife and parents arguing about which casket to get... then I saw the smiley and, since Cynic is the OP, I figured it would be some kind of a joke... But I had to chuckle when I saw the photo. It hadn't even entered into my mind that this would be about a Coleman cooler!!
Thing is, I often read a joke here that I find lame, distasteful or just plain not funny. I would never say so though because it really doesn't matter. Humor is different things to different people.
My DS semt shared this with me a few days ago and I have to admit I had to laugh. Is it inappropriate??? Maybe. In my opinion, no more inappropriate than some of the other posts that I don't comment on.
Just for the fun of it - don't forget that you're going to get boxed in, yourself, one of these days, cynic!
Probably in one that can't be opened from the inside, too ... just in case you should survive. Though I imagine that you'd laugh, yourself, at some of the funny stories that some of your friends told about you, during the visitation at the funeral home.
Some people say that they can't stand the visitation at a funeral home ... but they're usually substantially misinformed, for in many cases there's a good bit of laughter, as people tell interesting and often funny incidents that they remember about their relationship with the deceased.
Someone should take a tape recorder in and preserve some of the stories for posterior ... posterity.
I usually love plays on words (or pictures,) but thought this one was not good. The guy had such a tough life, much of it coming from his physical difficulties. If a family member saw this I'm sure he/she would be terribly hurt.
I'll admit - it made me laugh. But I'll also admit that after I laughed, the thought did cross my mind that it was in bad taste.
Not to make this too heavy, but it got me to thinking a bit. Do you really think that just because someone has a disability (and Gary had a few) we should think twice before making fun of them, but that it is okay to rip healthy people to shreds when they err (i.e., Tiger Woods, John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Pamela Anderson, ad infinitum)? We can't pretend to know all of the intimate details of other's lives, yet we are so quick to judge them if some sordid details of their lives are made public.
Or is it just that we should not speak ill of the dead?
Good question, Donna, but I think it is "that we should not speak ill of the dead." In his case, this has even more meaning because he did not have an easy life so we mustn't poke fun at him when he is gone. But, like you, I blurted out laughing when I saw it.
I tell ya what's gettin' to me - Todd Bridges on tv every few minutes saying, "Somethin's not smellin' good here!" (He's talking about the strange facts surrounding Gary Coleman's death and the fact that he still hasn't been cremated, as he had supposedly asked for.) Not a verrrry good choice of words, if you ask me.
I always wonder if they were even very close all these years? I get the impression that Todd Bridges is wanting all the air time that he can get, no matter what the subject. Cher, when Sonny died? Priscilla, when Elvis died?
That being said, why did Gary's wife not go to the hospital with him? Crud! I've listened to a few too many Todd Bridges' comments! LOL
Did anyone see the interview on the today show with his mom and dad? I didn't watch all of it but seems like there are a lot of contradictions going around.Guess that's par for the course though.
At the risk of not sounding "uncaring" enough (and risk tarnish on my horns and tail) I'll repeat what I said before, how it seemed pretty strange to me how quickly she ordered the plug pulled on him. Being comatose for a couple hours is not unusual and coming out of it is far from being unheard of. Save money? Make sure he didn't recover? And that could be for a number of reasons but it was definitely a quick yank on the plug.
People with disabilities behave badly too. Do they get a free pass because of these disabilities? Gary had his share of brushes with the law, if I remember correctly.
My point was not that I thought we should have fun at the expense of those with disabilities, but that we should treat ALL people with respect.
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