R.I.P. ... On My Car Window?
What is it with people turning their cars into rolling tombstones, with epitaphs scrawled or pasted on their car windows?
I'm sorry for your loss, but I DON'T KNOW THE PERSON! What do you want me to do, send a prayer to God, asking to let your friend through the Pearly Gates?
I don't get it. I thought a cemetery was a place where a family could go quietly to mourn and remember a loved one who passed away. I thought an urn filled with ashes sitting above the hearth was a way to keep a loved one close in your thoughts. I thought sprinkling ashes on the ocean, or in space, or WHERE EVER you're legally allowed to do so, was a way to commemorate that life with quiet dignity.
Whatever happened to quiet dignity? To reverence?
Putting an epitaph on your car DISRESPECTS THE PERSON WHO DIED. It's a MOCKERY.
People driving by, seeing that sign ... they could be cursing your friend ... or they might feel uncomfortable knowing someone died so young.
What if someone didn't like the deceased? They might video tape your epitaph as it rolls by, and mock you on Youtube.
Oh, wait -- I forgot. We live in an era where we all have to give a SHOUT OUT! We all have to PUBLICIZE OURSELVES. WE DON'T EXIST IF WE'RE NOT ON TV. We don't matter if we don't put our names out there.
Whatever happened to discretion ... to shame?
I guess discrete or shameful matters are posted on people's windows ... on your car and the Internet.
I'm sorry for your loss, but I DON'T KNOW THE PERSON! What do you want me to do, send a prayer to God, asking to let your friend through the Pearly Gates?
I don't get it. I thought a cemetery was a place where a family could go quietly to mourn and remember a loved one who passed away. I thought an urn filled with ashes sitting above the hearth was a way to keep a loved one close in your thoughts. I thought sprinkling ashes on the ocean, or in space, or WHERE EVER you're legally allowed to do so, was a way to commemorate that life with quiet dignity.
Whatever happened to quiet dignity? To reverence?
Putting an epitaph on your car DISRESPECTS THE PERSON WHO DIED. It's a MOCKERY.
People driving by, seeing that sign ... they could be cursing your friend ... or they might feel uncomfortable knowing someone died so young.
What if someone didn't like the deceased? They might video tape your epitaph as it rolls by, and mock you on Youtube.
Oh, wait -- I forgot. We live in an era where we all have to give a SHOUT OUT! We all have to PUBLICIZE OURSELVES. WE DON'T EXIST IF WE'RE NOT ON TV. We don't matter if we don't put our names out there.
Whatever happened to discretion ... to shame?
I guess discrete or shameful matters are posted on people's windows ... on your car and the Internet.
Labels: dignity, discretion, epitaphs, mockery, reverence, rolling tombstones, thank god almighty
posted by Skew | Friday, March 14, 2008
1 Comments:
It should be part of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck if..." routine.
I just don't get it. Where do they get that chalk-stuff? Do they get inspired immediately? I see spider-webs sometimes, too.
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