Jehovah’s Witnesses?

[boingy]

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[mickd1961]

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[Calgarybaggy]

I got an email the other day. It said: Knock Knock. When i responded: Who's there? the answer was: A Jehovah's witness working from home.

[Calgarybaggy]

The thing about funerals is that there are two purposes: 1) to honour the deceased; and 2) to give the survivors some closure/catharsis etc. When you think about it, the deceased is gone and either in a better place, a worse place or no place at all, depending on your beliefs. The deceased may or may not care, or be able to care, about being honoured. So the real purpose for the funeral is to help those left behind to cope with their loss and sorrow. So even if the deceased was a die hard atheist and hated religion in all forms, if the deceased's spouse is religious, the surviving spouse might need to hear some religious words of comfort. After all, the funeral is mostly for the surviving spouse and children anyway. However, I agree that whatever is said at a funeral and by whom can be fraught with risks. Its definitely not a moment for "stand up everyone here with a husband - not so fast Mrs Johnson".

[On Balance]

Wouldn't worry about it too much Mick, it all seems pretty straight forward.......

https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/funeral/

....... read a link which suggested services usually take between 15 to 30 minutes but I suppose it depends on who's actually doing it.

Been to a few funerals of differing faiths over the years. Some we've been out of fairly quickly and at others I've felt like I could have died of old age myself.

Not particularly religious myself to be honest,
but given 68’s memory, I went to a C of E funeral a couple of years ago, only a half hour drive from our home and it went on so long that a I rode back I saw my wife driving towards the church a couple of hours later thinking I’d had an accident on my MC going home.

Lovely bloke and a lovely family but hell it went on too long.

Simple for me. I don’t want a funeral. Just a cremation, and if anyone wants a party then they can have a sort of wake thingy for family and friends after.

I just want to go quietly. End of.

[mickd1961]

I made up my own Jehovah’s Witness joke the other day.

Jehovah’s Witness goes to the doctors for a check up, doc looks him over and gives him the full MOT check.

“Do you want the good news or the bad news first” says the doc?

“I’ll take the good news” says the Jehovah.

Doc replies……”well you don’t celebrate Xmas anyway do you!?”




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[Dubbag]

Ah so very true boingy, very true.
I see that in action most days, when it's too late. But that's the beauty of death. It hurts the living more.
Has the ability to cause the living to change but most don'y after a few days.
People wont talk to you when your alive and cant when your dead...

[Dubbag]

This also true and to the point.
I would scratch out the words Jehovah's Witness and replace it with the one word "People."