Zerd85

Haveing worked for a funeral home for a year and a half, I had one a few months ago.

Someone called our funeral home to check how much we charged for cremation. Not unusual in our area as that's what many people seem to be choosing because the cost of a traditional service and burial is pretty expensive comparatively.

It got weird when he asked if we could cremate him that night and what he should be wearing. I was in the office while our office manager took the call and could hear him through the receiver as he was talking.

She tried to clarify what he was asking and he began getting irate saying he wanted to climb into our retort and die that night, and because Colorado had passed the right to die law he said we could not tell him he was unable to use our retort to burn himself alive.

To this day I still can't tell of this guy was serious or if he was trying to do some weird undercover sting because he was against the law.

And for the record, having read a lot about that law it's a lot more complicated than it's made out to be, and several hospices I know of won't continue to help patients once they've made that decision.

My sister-in-law wasa a 911 dispatcher for years.

Best one she told me was an older woman that called because she let her dog outside to do its business and a stray ran up and mounted her dog in her yard and started having sex.

She called to report another dog was raping her dog.

A local school district of mine recently applied for the BEST grant. Those funds definitely go to a good use.

And since everyone is complaining about their reps.

Doug Lamborn.

Because they were such a nice person. They always said "Hi!" In the morning with a smile on their face and brought doughnuts on Fridays.

I think we also need to look at what happened to all of your examples:

MLK - Assassinated

Mandela - Incarcerated

Ganghi - Assassinated

Many of the most thought provoking, culturally significant people in the world, unless supported by a military, have met untimely ends. I think this is why we've seen a shift to a collective community as far as enlightened ideas go.

Look at the way societies across the globe have evolved in the last few generations. There's been population explosions in every facet of the globe. Technology has changed the way people interact with one another and has allowed cultures from many different parts of the world, to spread.

Many of us were taught as children, that America was the cultural melting pot of the world. What has technology done to change that? I'd argue our computers and the internet have become that melting pot. Its become the melting pot of the world. I'll add that perfect examples of this, are countries that prohibit certain content to be viewed to their citizens. To protect their culture and their way of life from outside influences.

I think I'm rambling now... More coffee!

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