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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to be a massive narcissist to do something like this. 
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You have to be an empathy-free zone of a person not to understand what OP is talking about.

Read the other posts about it here and learn something, and grow a little empathy for those who know they're dying soon, and for those who want to tell them--[i]before[/i] they die and can't hear it--that they're appreciated.

Living funerals tend to be organized (not always by that name) not by the person themselves, but by others, so, not the narcissitic thing you assume it is. How unpleasant and unsympathetic of you, to put the worst possible construction on the idea.[/quote]

Then I guess I'm an empathy-free person.

Sorry, it's weird and narcissistic in any case. Just like an adult throwing themselves a birthday party.

People are free and welcome to tell anyone, any time, how they feel about them. There's no need for a party or a "living funeral" to solicit comments. '

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What?! The ones I've been to are the exact opposite of narcissists. People were welcome to give speeches, read cards individually to the dying person (they couldn't read any longer) or to talk to them. It gave me more closure than any funeral ever could. They weren't organized by the dying person, but it did raise their spirits. The ones I've been to were pretty sad occasions with the person having a terminal diagnosis, some were young.

I wondered why people spend 10k+ on funerals when the money would be better having everyone over for a nice catered meal. The speeches at a wake are worthless to me when the person is laying dead in front of them. [/quote]

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