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Originally Posted by MeganS  re: the dead body coversation. I, thank God, have never seen a newly dead body. But even seeing a dead body in a funeral home makes me SO upset. I am trying to manage it because whenever one of my friends loses someone, I really want to be there for them. So I always go to wakes when someone dies, but I can rarely stay in the room with the body. Usually I'll sit in the other room and keep my friend company.
Most recently I went to my 2nd Grade teacher's wake. That was absolutely devestating. She was one of my favorite teachers and we always stayed close with her (my brother had her too). She came to all of our big parties, etc. The last time I saw her was at my brother's Eagle Scout Award ceramony. I am so grateful that I got to sit and talk with her for a while. Her death was VERY sudden and extremely unexpected (the night she died, she had just gotten back from dinner with friends, and suffered a massive stroke and died). The funeral home that took care of her did a HORRIBLE job and the body looked nothing like her - that made my fear of death even worse. 
I have stuff to add about myself  :
I'm OCD. A lot. When I get "in the mood" to organize something, I am ridiculous. If the cat kicks litter out of her litter box in the middle of the night, I litterally can't sleep until I vaccuum it up. My closet is organized by type of clothes (long sleeved, short sleeved, jeans, sweaters, etc) and all of the hangers have to be on the same way. and dust irks me like crazy. People must think I'm rude because I'll walk around wiping dust off of stuff in their house! It's horrible! I don't think peoples' homes are dirty, but if I see dust I just can't help it! It's very sucky!!
I'm also a horrible pack rat. I can't throw away old papers. I don't know why. I have a backpack from almost every year of school, filled to the brim with every paper I saved from that year. Sometimes it's fun cause I can look back at my old work, but usually it's just annoying cause it's all in the way. When I got into my last major organizing mood (this past weekend) I organized my ENTIRE room and finished unpacking (I moved in in April LOL) and I forced myself to throw away about a years' worth of papers. It litterally made me feel sick. It's terrible. |
LOL, Megan, I just got an image of Danny Tanner from Full House in my head!
As for the dead body thing... I HATE funerals too. Since my 5 year old brother died in 2006, it's been extremely hard for me. The image of him laying in there... it haunts me every day. I almost didn't even want to go, but I knew I just had to. He looked like himself, he looked freakin' adorable, but there was NO way that was
my LITTLE brother in a casket. It's a mind blowing thing that will never leave you. I've been to many viewings, as had many of the ppl there at my brother's, but 99% of people had never seen a child at a wake. It was a chilling experience. I remember just grabbing onto his hand and never wanting to let go. I still miss him so much.