BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but

Subject: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 01:56 PM

...you'd better put all your ashes in one casket. Thus spake il Papa!   😂

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 02:03 PM

Some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes were in the Pluto probe. If the Pope thinks that's a problem, the Vatican had better fund a deep space mission to get them back.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 02:06 PM

Health & Safety in Santander dictates you should not "put all your Basques in one exit"

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 05:25 PM

Dear Pope, Fire destroys DNA. If you imagine partial transubstantiations going to heaven like an incomplete Star Trek transporter victim, rest your weary mind. That possibility ended with ashes.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 05:45 PM

The Basques are mostly a bit further east than Santander, Mr Red!

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 07:07 PM

Was this about an honest-to-gawd serious statement by his daddyness, or something he is loose enough to joke about? To believe that God can reconstitute someone who has made an ash of himself, but not if the guy's ash is in more than one place, is...is...

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 07:11 PM

If I were God I'd rather have a nice pile of dry ash to work on, resurrection-wise, than a stinking heap of half-rotted cadaver.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 07:31 PM

Frogprince and Mr. Red are never seen Together. Hmmm?

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Janie
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 08:37 PM

Glad Katlaughing ain't worrying about all this foolishness. Her ashes are scattered all over the world, and a little bit of them are still on my dresser, waiting for me to find one last, perfect spot.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Oct 16 - 09:02 PM

I once read that if you tip an average size glass of water into the sea, wait a year or two, then scoop water out of the sea with the same glass anywhere in the world, there will be about a hundred molecules of your original water in that glass. Just think of all that carbon dioxide that you turn into when you snuff it, quickly if you're cremated and slowly if you just moulder. You'll get everywhere. Get real, Pope Franny!

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Oct 16 - 03:37 AM

The Basques are mostly a bit further east than Santander, Mr Red!
They're leaving to go home!

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Oct 16 - 03:45 AM

Frogprince and Mr. Red are never seen Together. Hmmm?

I never kissed him - that's fer sure!

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Oct 16 - 05:48 AM

Aha - a Bill Clintonesque denial...

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Oct 16 - 08:32 PM

There's a spot by a big dolerite rock on the Rumps headland in Cornwall where my ashes are going. I wouldn't mind just a whiff of breeze to get some of them airborne. It's my very favourite spot in the whole world with one of the best views of cliffs and sea I know.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 28 Oct 16 - 04:28 AM

From my reading of it, the Pope is not so much worried about the ashes themselves, but rather the motivation of those doing the scattering.

If your loved one's ashes are sitting are sitting on the mantelpiece, there is no need to visit the churchyard. If you hold a little ceremony to scatter your loved one in the woods, could the next step be holding the wood sacred leading to worship of woodland spirits? If people get solace and comfort from sending ashes all over the world, will they still feel the need to turn to the Mother Church? If sending ashes into the solar system becomes popular then Rome becomes less the centre of the universe.

The Pope is worried about pantheism. He would prefer to have the ashes kept in cemeteries or churches where he has influence and control.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 28 Oct 16 - 04:41 AM

that last line should read:

........... where he can have influence and control on those left behind.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Oct 16 - 04:31 AM

FWIW if I may introduce a serious observation (just this once)

When my sister died I got my Bro-in-law to send some of her ashes to me and when he & the kids came over we sprinkled some on my father's grave.

Something I regret I didn't think of when mother died.

Just saying - a nice concept to put in place when considering what to do with peoples' ashes.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: banjoman
Date: 29 Oct 16 - 07:08 AM

As a catholic for more than 70 years, I have long since taken the view that the old men in the Vatican have so little experience of life that much of what they say has to be personal opinion and little to do with faith in Jesus Christ who would be laughing in his grave (if he had one)
As for me - I have always wanted to be buried at sea so certain people who have threatened to dance on my grave could finally fulfil their wish. Otherwise, if cremated then scatter my ashes around Anfield Football Stadium which has already been used for such purposes on numerous occasions. (Hillsborough)

Subject: RE: BS: Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket, but
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Oct 16 - 07:17 AM

Yeah, Anfield. Damn. I may have to have my ashes split....