Posted on 12/29/2018 1:39:46 PM PST by bgill
A white elephant gift exchange has led a Houston woman to play a real-life version to reunite a family with the gift she received... The words "Neptune Society" are on its foot. A quick online search revealed it wasn't any ordinary bear. "I read that and then I started to feel, and it's almost like little pebbles or rocks," Desai said. After discovering what was hidden inside, the bear's tag made sense. "I hope I can bring you comfort in whatever life brings your way," Desai read. It then clicked. Desai realized the bear was filled with someone's remains.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc13.com ...
Note to self for next year’s white elephant - don’t go for the teddy bear on the steals.
I hope she finds the family.
Someone’s remains minus the water and most of the carbon and nitrogen, leaving the residual calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, etc. Most of the actual remains are floating in the atmosphere, causing global warming according to the left. I can foresee no better use for my body once I’m dead.
So does this qualify as the worst regifting ever?
How sick. Cremation is a dubious and unchristian practice in the first place. Then to stuff a teddy bear with human remains? Sick.
I don’t judge. Often there is a good reason.
I found some cremains once. Luckily there was a name on them and the name of the funeral home but it was many states away. They called a relative and then he contacted us and we sent them to him.
They make jewelry out of cremains, umbilical cords and mother’s breast milk. You can even import the items if you don’t have any just laying around the house.
Don’t buy second hand jewelry.
I don’t recall any specific Biblical commandments about what to do with corpses. Traditionally they’re buried, but that varies depending on circumstance. Keeping remains in a teddy bear in your house, however... Odd, for sure, but nothing in the Bible condemns it.
The Bible does speak about cremation. Check this link out.
http://executableoutlines.com/top/cremate.htm
Woah.....worst white elephant give ever
OK, I stand corrected. The link says “Bodies were burned as a form of condemnation”. It should say “as an expression of condemnation”. But that does not mean burning of bodies is condemned. When I got my new drivers license, I burned the old one as an expression of condemnation of the terrible picture they took of me. I practiced my smile in advance for the new one. It’s much better.
Very few people were buried. The practice during Christ’s time was to collect the bone after decomposition and interred them in an ossuary.
Comes pretty close, doesn’t it.
Be that as it may, they were not burned. Which is, according to the Bible, disrespectful to the human body.
Burial is a money making scheme for both the church and the funeral home. Who the hell wants their body thrown into a hole only to be consumed by worms...........?
Go ahead, have your pedophile riddled Catholic church condemn me. Have your mega millionaire pastor condemn me. Have your Televangelist begging for his $1,000 seed in return for "God's" enrichment ten fold..condemn me.
My body is done, my spirit will hopefully go to your heaven, so cremate me since there will be nobody willing to waste their time visiting a plot of ground that simply hosts a head stone.........
And that includes you.
Keeping ANY remains in the house is weird. So far, we have collected one dog and one brother-in-law. I doubt if my wife will add her husband to the collection, though.
She’s more apt to have you freeze-dried, either sitting in the La-Z-Boy clutching the remote, or hunkered over the keyboard staring at an FR thread...
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