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Comment by booklover on July 4, 2012 at 4:28pm

https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/480469_453986787952974_18...

Sorry, I cannot understand how to make the picture just show-up!  Steph, can you do it for me? LOL

This is SO appropriate Obviously!~ Melinda

Comment by Steph S. on July 3, 2012 at 5:51pm

Awww - such a cute cat picture Ian! I love it!

Comment by Steph S. on July 3, 2012 at 5:50pm

Comment by booklover on July 3, 2012 at 3:38pm

p.s. Ian, I really love the ending that says you're still around, just less-orderly! ha ha! :)

Comment by booklover on July 3, 2012 at 3:36pm

Ian, I sent what you want read @ your funeral to a bunch of people, Atheist and not (the not Atheist people know I am one and are more open-minded).  I saved it.  I want it read at my funeral too.  It made me smile to read that.  Thanks for making my day!~ Melinda

Comment by Ian Mason on July 3, 2012 at 3:25pm

Spread the Good Word, Sister Melinda. If I ever officiate at a funeral (being on Ordained Minister of the First Church of Atheism, I can) I'll use that text.

Comment by booklover on July 3, 2012 at 2:32pm

@ Ian.  First of all that cat pic is great!  We should ALL have a snow cone in this heat (and a LOT of the US has awful heat right now).  Second of all, the thing you have saved for your funeral is AWESOME.  I am going to send it to some of my Atheist friends if you don't mind.~ Melinda

Comment by Patricia on July 3, 2012 at 1:46pm

Comment by Ian Mason on July 3, 2012 at 1:42pm

Just remembered that I've got this on my computer for when my time comes.

"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy..., every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him/her that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let him/her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her/his eyes, that those photons created within her/him constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly."

Comment by James M. Martin on July 3, 2012 at 1:00pm

sk8eycat, really now, Fanny Mail?!

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