Wednesday, June 08, 2005
When Your Ego Does Not Die
Having just been through a funeral, I found this less than wonderful.
The real problem is this sort of thing denies one of the most essential realities of creation -- "the wages of sin is death."
From funeral rockets to mountaintop memorials, Americans are moving toward more colorful, personalized ways to say goodbye to loved ones. Such services often include ?comfort? music, favorite foods, photographs and other mementos that celebrate the individuality of the dead. Grieving families also are holding theme receptions and having cremated remains embedded in reefs or compressed into gemstones.I don't see much good in this. Either the families are in denial about the horrific realities of their loved ones death, or the loved one had way too much ego and made arrangements for garbage like this prior to death.
The real problem is this sort of thing denies one of the most essential realities of creation -- "the wages of sin is death."
