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OP - July 27, 2015, 03:30 PM

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ceremonies to cry our hearts out and ruined our lives!

Friends brother died about a month back but I think spent most of yesterday in one of these. What are they about? It sounds emotionally harmful, not grieving properly at own pace.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

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Reply #1 - July 27, 2015, 05:08 PM

Ive never been to one but I hate how people talk good about the dead person, although when said person was alive, no one gave a shit or even cared to meet once.

People are so dishonest.
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Reply #2 - July 28, 2015, 02:26 AM

Was it the fortieth day meal that has become traditional amongst some Muslims? I think the idea is to pray for the deceased and to mark the end of the official mourning period.

There is also a fourth day meal and prayers, plus an annual one after that.

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Reply #3 - July 28, 2015, 05:23 AM

Quote from: musivore on July 28, 2015, 02:26 AM
Was it the fortieth day meal that has become traditional amongst some Muslims? I think the idea is to pray for the deceased and to mark the end of the official mourning period.

There is also a fourth day meal and prayers, plus an annual one after that.

Really? That's quite interesting. I wonder if these have their origins in the Jewish mourning rituals (one week of sitting in the house of the dead person mourning, one year of saying a special prayer for them, and on the one year anniversary every year after, repeat the special prayer). The one year thing is because that's the longest amount of time a person can be in hell in Jewish tradition, so they stop needing your special prayers then but you need to remember them? or something to that effect.

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Reply #4 - July 28, 2015, 11:25 AM

Yup

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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