Respect, disrespect or just gross?
By Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (13480)
Ireland
April 23, 2025 6:13am CST
I find it in very bad taste that the lifeless body of a recently deceased elderly gentleman should be on public display in Rome for the next few days. That’s creepy and terribly disrespectful. At least Queen Elizabeth kept the lid on her coffin while people filed by to pay their nosey respects when she died.
Of course most families here in Ireland bring the bodies of their dead home for 3 days before burial, and the coffin is open, and the body available for touching and kissing (I refrain) but that’s within family, not on public display.
What do you think?
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@DaddyEvil (146354)
• United States
23 Apr
I don't like open caskets and, honestly, don't like burials at all. I've told Pretty and some other family I want to be cremated and scattered down by the lake we swim at. (It's legal here as long as they scatter the ashes in the grass at the edge of the lake out of public pathways and not in the water itself.)
I don't want a burial service, either. What they choose to do after I'm gone isn't something I can control, but I did make my preferences known.
I feel sorry for the pope. He might not be there anymore, but I can't believe he'd want strangers gawking at him as if he's a new monkey in a zoo.
