"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

"At night I bite my pillow out of guilt, wondering if there was something I could've done for my casual online acquaintance who lives two states above mine."

xp

It's the idea of possibly finding all that garishness and handwringing in the least bit comforting.

People express grief in many different ways. I used to think it was all funny until I've saw people close to me go through some of the same feelings.

My dog died on the Friday of Memorial Day last year ( I know, dogs < children,) so I had to take her body to the 24-hour vet to avoid letting it sit on our backporch under a tarp for three days.

After signing the slip for $180, the vet on-call gave me this paper with, among other things, the Rainbow Bridge poem. I just wanted to go "Really?"

Normally I would make fun of these people and this entire site.

Except that I know all too much the suffering that comes with grief and loss. And this kind of a website would be very healing to some people.

yeah until I saw my coworker obsessively sharing this stuff I would have rmde but she was so upset, and is clearly still grieving and idk, it's not my bag at all but i guess some people just grieve in really, really corny/creepy ways

I guess all it takes to silence my snark is a grieving mother from Melling. Who knew.

Funny how real world experience can color our empathy.

my real life instructions to friends have been to throw my corpse in a dumpster in a neighboring community to create a csi-type mystery for someone to solve

mr veg has been entrusted with arranging my viking funeral; we're already clear that none of our friends can be trusted with flaming-arrow-duties. it'll be down to him, my brother in law and my niece to do the heavylifting, archery wise.

$180 to dispose of your dog's body? Why not bury it in the back yard (or other area)?

She was a big dog.

It might not have been that much. I could be mixing that price up with one of the cats that got euthanized.

When my parents lived out of town on an acreage one of their neighbors started a pet cemetery and had a facility for cremations. I believe he had a large enough furnace to cremate a horse. Yup, lucrative business, that.

Pillows are cheaper xp

Pillows or pillowcases.

She was a big dog.

― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:07 (31 minutes ago)

Veruca?!?

Sadly.

my cousin posts this kind of stuff on a daily basis, lots of heaven/angel/dead-loved-ones corny sayings/quotations/flowery pics. she lost both her brothers to a hereditary disease, one about 23 years ago, the other about 18 years ago.

Sorry to hear that, PP. My dad's Dane survived him, but was already 7, so I think they're both gone now (I did NOT stay in touch with The Widow).

I've got a handful of FB friends who post mawkish loss-related items on their walls. While I don't have a problem with people wanting to express their bereavement, I will never stop having a problem with bad writing, horrible fonts, lame images and the Hallmark-ization of magical thinking.

suzy otm

this is only tangentially related, but when someone's facebook page post-death is co-opted by family with messages thanking people for their support, it's sort of ghoulishly like they're saying 'okay show's over thanks everyone'

in my mind it's like that video of the dead cat that was turned into a radio controlled helicopter

the whole post-death legacy on the internets thing will always be disturbing to me

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/05/zombie-uncle-scott.jpg

i love the two hour gap between 'rawrr' and 'lol not really'

that one is worth so many guilty laughs

In the event of one of my cats dying, I would like to bury him or her. It's probably illegal to bury a pet in a nature preserve or park, but that's what I think I'd like to do. I'm not very comfortable with cremation, and I'd like him or her to have a nice spot to rest and feed the plants.

My Dad figured out a way to manipulate cremated remains so they take on a pearl-like appearance, it's very pretty. He makes jewelry out of it.

wait...pet cremains? i came here to complain about other people's friends spamming me on facebook, but while we're at it, my animal hospital was so kind as to give us a little plaster paw print when my dog died. i cherish it! would wear earrings, too.

Yeah, he uses pets, to be honest he discovered it accidentally and picked up some cremains from the humane society (the pound) to practice with. I think it's lovely because in addition to jewelry you can scatter with some permanence.

I buried the cat, and it took me a whole afternoon to dig a big enough hole. After that, I sat down with the Great Dane and we both came to the conclusion that cremation would be best when it came her time.

I've buried four or five cats since I was 8 and you must have gone way deeper than I ever did

Lot of rocks + big cat + I'm pushing 40.

Maybe I'll just bury them at sea (Lake Michigan).

Recently, Facebook wanted some answers to questions, such as "Which University did you go to" and "Where do you work?"

So, if anyone else out there went to "No I did not" university, or currently works at "Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band" then that's where you will find me also..

Mine kept asking me if I worked at Gawker.

don't all ilxors work unpaid by proxy for gawker

their wit and wisdom ripe for reappropriation by our resident gawker writer

i thought facebook was just taunting me for being unemployed. glad to see everyone's getting similar messages

Trrrrreeeeeershiiiiiiip my duuuuuude

I just noticed that in the messages Inbox there's an 'Other' link which has messages from non-friends, some groups, etc. I have messages from a year and a half ago that I've never seen!

Recently, Facebook wanted some answers to questions, such as "Which University did you go to" and "Where do you work?"

...you know you dont gotta answer these, right?

just write 'springfield elementary' and 'nuclear paner plant'

nuclear paneer plant

I answered "No, I did not" and often get asked "Who else went to No I did not University? "

(I also put my workplace as Captain Beefheart & his magic band)

http://qz.com/94574/fellas-facebook-is-allowing-your-profiles-to-be-used-for-this-new-hot-or-not-app/

wt serious f

i remember getting reviewed on ex-so.com

facebook started out as a hot or not site and so it would be poetic if one day it eventually just returned to its roots and became a hot or not site w/ 7 billion people