We wrote one for my husbands sister recently. That was hard to do at the time.
My mother had her own prepared, that was more a blessing than I knew at the time. We were comfortable that she was memorialized in the way she preferred.
2007-06-05 08:02:15 · 12 answers · asked by G's Random Thoughts 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes...
Mine would say this:
Don't cry.....I'm with Jesus
2007-06-05 08:04:56 · answer #1 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From my understanding, he didn't know what he was. He wasn't an atheist or a pantheist, because he said he wasn't. He honestly couldn't comprehend a beginning to a God (from Jewish beliefs, God has no beginning, so he couldn't believe in that God), but he couldn't also comprehend the order he saw in the universe without a God being present. But he definitely was not a Christian. I think, given the Holocaust, he would have been offended at the idea. I think the Snopes answer though probably has something to do with it. Just like people believe that blinking your headlights will get you killed, people tend to get emails saying Einstein did this or was that and take it as gospel. :P "In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views." "I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God." Add: Just to say it, if Einstein said "I'm not a pantheist" which is what he said, even if what he also said seems to lean in that direction, you can't say "he was a pantheist." He said he wasn't, and... that's just how it is.
2016-05-17 11:16:56 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably best that I don't!
Here's a rough draft:
Blah blah blah (the boring details). She was forced to attend ____ High School (where the most important thing she learned was "lefty loosey righty tighty) and was also coerced into attending ____ (college), which she actually rather enjoyed much to her surprise.
She ran away from home at the age of 20, ending up gainfully employed at ____ in Milwaukee. While working at the legendary _____, a strip joint, she met her future husband, ____. She was super-duper thrilled that he had a motorcycle, and was known to comment to family members "I thought ALL Mexicans were supposed to have accents!"
She "gave birth" to three wonderful cats - Martha (RIP), Poppy and Sophie. "Didn't hurt a bit - easiest labor ever!" she was known to say. She maintained to her dying day that not having kids was the best thing she never did.
The great inanimate love of her life was motorcycles. At the ripe old age of 39, she threw caution to the winds and purchased the sportbike (crotch rocket for those of you who don't know nothing) she always wanted. She and her husband enjoyed riding together - he was always trying to outrace her but never managed to get far.
Blah blah blah boring details.
2007-06-05 08:17:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish my mother would write her own. She never talks about the past, even when prompted to do so. It's going to be impossible to write a proper one for her.
I don't really wish to be memorialized in any way, so I don't want an obituary. I'd be happy if my death was not announced at all. I want no funeral, no burial. I wish to leave this world as quietly as I've lived my life.
2007-06-05 08:08:42 · answer #4 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure. I'd do it mainly because I'm involved in several organizations that I'd like to have mentioned in my obit, but some people might not remember or realize that I've been involved in these activities. I also want it plainly stated that in lieu of flowers, donations to charity are encouraged. I've always felt that flowers at funerals were useless.
2007-06-05 08:10:28 · answer #5 · answered by solarius 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't write it myself, but The New York Times wrote my obit several years ago and an obit writer there rings me about the time of my birthday every year to update it. I am an actor and disastrously old.
2007-06-05 08:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, well I have but I am going to have to re-write it now that I'm an atheist.
I have written obituaries before for loved ones who've died because I felt I was the only one who could do justice to the person. I could never just leave it up to the newspaper.
2007-06-05 08:14:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not really, but if I did, it would probably go something like, "I'm dead now, but will be resurrected. Hope to see you there." Some might consider it short and irreverent, but it reflects my belief that this life is merely a prelude to life everlasting.
2007-06-05 08:13:16 · answer #8 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have already written mine along with songs I want played at my funeral. Cant be too prepared...
I also have in there, "Please do not shed any tears, I am in Paradise and walking with my Lord Jesus, who I faithfully served"...
Also, I put in there, "I need no flowers, they will wilt and die, instead, always show kindness to others and witness about Jesus's love"....
2007-06-05 08:41:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes my husband and myself both have done this reason being it will be done our way not the way everyone else wont's it to be
2007-06-05 08:06:45 · answer #10 · answered by sclady62001p 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I won't have one. Don't need one. I am just one of billions. Most don't get to have one, why should I?
2007-06-05 08:06:55 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋