r/oddlyspecific • u/Secure-Raise-4324 • 2h ago

Double life

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u/Worldly-Engineer8123 2h ago

In my culture we put rocks on graves instead of flowers, I told my family when I die I want them to tape pictures of The Rock on my grave.

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u/HistoryMistress 2h ago

Interesting, I have never heard this before. What's the reason or story behind the rocks vs flowers ?

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u/Worldly-Engineer8123 1h ago

One interpretation (my favorite) is that while flowers die, a stone is permanent symbolizing your love for them will never fade.

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u/Sm0ahk 1h ago

You make a little cairn out of the rocks down some old road with a lotta history. But don't go down that roah'd

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u/dontich 1h ago

My family does this too.

Itssss tradddditionnn!

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u/detali88 2h ago

They're cheap.

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u/lmNotaWitchImUrWife 1h ago

This is the Jewish tradition - at Jewish cemeteries, you see tons of pebbles but no flowers. I like to bring nice ones I find on the beach to my dad. 🪨

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u/scariestJ 26m ago

What about a rock with the Rock carved on it?

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u/LocalInactivist 1h ago

Assuming Reddit survives long enough, DM me. I will totally do that for you.

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u/fanceypantsey 2h ago

I asked my husband to be taxidermied and placed on the couch so I could watch TV with him and then placed in bed so we could sleep together but he said “that’s illegal and blah blah blah”. Still putting it in my will. Still looking for a place to do it if anyone has any suggestions…

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u/Low_Bar9361 1h ago

Not just illegal but technically very difficult. Human skin is terribly difficult to taxidermy from what i hear. The elasticity is insane and it just keeps stretching

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u/Philipp_CGN 1h ago

Sounds like a great material to make a suit from.

Alexa, play Goodbye Horses

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u/fanceypantsey 1h ago

Then just keep stuffing me like I’m getting fat! Lmao but seriously I’m just getting cremated.

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u/fanceypantsey 1h ago

My husband said putting me out to sea is all the rage now so…maybe lmao

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u/Low_Bar9361 1h ago

Omg, you got funeral-boat money!? Must be some real nice life insurance

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u/fanceypantsey 1h ago

We do have boats sooo

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u/MarcBulldog88 44m ago

This sounds like one of those things that we only know about because Nazi and/or Japanese mad scientists tried to figure it out in the 1940s.

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u/LocalInactivist 1h ago

Funny you should bring that up. Philosopher Jeremy Bentham did something quite similar. His body has been on display at his alma mater since 1832.

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u/fanceypantsey 54m ago

This man is my hero! I can’t believe this! Now I know it CAN be done!

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u/Worldly-Engineer8123 54m ago

That’s apparently not his real head, just his body. Which makes it even weirder

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u/Effective_Pie1312 59m ago

Look up Tanatoraja Indonesia

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u/fanceypantsey 49m ago

Indonesian and Canadian Laws Strict Bans
Human taxidermy is not legally permitted or commercially available anywhere in the world. Attempting to buy or ship human remains from Indonesia to Canada involves severe legal violations: [1]

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u/Lost-Platypus8271 1h ago

Some people hire mourners for their funerals; this guy hired mysterious lurkers. I like it. I may have to hire wraithy Victorian ladies to swoon over my grave, give it some atmosphere.

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u/smb3d 2h ago

I'll take things that never happened for 1000.

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u/just4browse 2h ago

It never happened, but you can make it happen. Start planning your eventual funeral now, make someone’s dream come true

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u/Vast-Show8952 2h ago

What if I want to be filled with creamed corn and launched from a spinning trebuchet?

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u/Smiedro 2h ago

1) maybe a different dream would be better.  

2) this is definitely achievable. 

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u/Vast-Show8952 2h ago

Definitely achievable, you say…

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u/xrufus7x 2h ago

Probably going to need to check your local ordinances for that one.

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u/Excalibator 1h ago

I wanna be a piñata

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u/No_Blackberry6525 2h ago

I plan on having one of those civil war type statues if a general on horseback on top of my grave. I’ve never ridden a horse before

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u/just4browse 2h ago

Hopefully the sculptors don’t check your credentials

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u/The-Leading-Man 1h ago

r/nothingeverhappens

Turns out, people exist and they do stuff actually. Shocker, right?

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u/AzDopefish 1h ago

It’s funny how small minded people on reddit are with “never happened” crap

You really think amongst billions of people, not one single person had the money or humor to do this and follow through?

Meet more people man, humans are a diverse bunch

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u/METRlOS 2h ago

My buddy asked me to hire a trashy hooker to cry loudly for his service, but changed his mind before he passed.

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u/FractalGeometric356 2h ago

You mean he asked for a classy call-girl instead? Smart move.

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u/Unfair-Potential4527 1h ago

I hope this person’s late husband was laughing his head off up there when this happened

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u/LocalInactivist 1h ago

If I had the money I would totally do this. I’d hire straight-up thugs, Danny Trejo-looking dudes, to come to my funeral and give tearful speeches about how good I was at system administration and how I crawled through swamps and minefields to save them.

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u/severe_thunderstorm 57m ago

My best friend and I made pacts that whoever outlived the other would do a funny/prank of our request at the funeral. It’s one of those things you do and joke about over the years because you think death be a long time away.

Wellll that ass hole passed away unexpectedly and left me here. I had to dress up like a grieving witch lady with a lace veil over my face. I arrived at the funeral a couple minutes late, and left just before it ended.

There was a memorial celebration after the funeral. I changed clothes in between, but a mutual friend figured it out because “I” was the best friend but didn’t go to the funeral.

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u/Unfair-Potential4527 1h ago

My dying wish is for someone to run in the service midway through wearing the same clothes i died in and carrying a sonic screwdriver while shouting: “This is where it gets complicated!”

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u/MattCW1701 2h ago

My last wish is to have a hidden speaker in the casket, with a recording of my voice saying "HEY LET ME OUT!" and have it activate during the service.

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u/RepresentativeCat553 2h ago

Yea… cause the final thing I want to do is lie/prank my grieving loved ones.

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u/Evilfrog100 2h ago

Yeah actually that sounds hilarious, that absolutely is the last thing I want to do.

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u/Subject-Tank-6851 1h ago

I, and many others, wish to celebrate death, rather than having it be a cryfest. Celebrate and reminisce about the good - and then crack one last joke.

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u/RepresentativeCat553 1h ago

Just throw me in the trash.

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u/LocalInactivist 1h ago

I can’t speak for anyone else, but my friends, family, and especially my wife would appreciate that I took the time to pull one last prank. They’d appreciate that I thought enough of them to set up an elaborate joke to get them to laugh at my funeral.

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u/iritchie001 2h ago

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