Tragedy on our roads

[Big Dog]

EOD there is no good way to die. No matter what sort of c@@t you are someone will be hurting because you are gone.
I don't hope to die on my bike, but I can think of worse fates. Such as being at a mates funeral and mumbling those words because you don't know what else to say to convey how you feel to his/her family and feeling like they don't agree.

Be it final or just the doorway to the next life, no one has proof. Life ain't a fucking dress rehearsal get up and dance.

If you happen to be at my funeral one day and I died on my bike and you don't know what else to say don't feel bad about mumbling those words because I know the risks I take, I also know not taking them would be the end of my life.


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[mashman]

Still missing the point. It's a platitude. It makes the person saying or writing it feel like they are being deep and meaningful and providing support, but it makes the people they are saying it to feel patronised and confused.

What? All of them? Bit patronising.

[James Deuce]

What? All of them? Bit patronising.

Yes. When you're really in the shit, platitudes sting.

[Ocean1]

Yeah, well it's ridiculous. It's the WORST thing that can happen to a person, not the best.

"While I had always said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love." - Roger Zelazny.

[haydes55]

If it wasn't dangerous, it wouldn't be fun.

Maybe the wording should be "(deceased person) died whilst enjoying their life, they enjoyed life for the same reason they died, they took a risk, a small chance at death for a life time of enjoyment. Unfortunately that risk wasn't in (the deceased)'s favor that day"

Fuck that's about as PC as the Rocks "win a wife" name change to "win a trip to Europe to participate in match making"

[mashman]

Yes. When you're really in the shit, platitudes sting.

No doubt they do for some, maybe the majority, but for some it's comforting for whatever reason. Fucked if I know why, but hey, vauxhall viva la difference.

[ellipsis]

...probably shouldn't say fuck all, in case it upsets some clowns sense of propriety, and just get straight to the sausage rolls and club sandwiches...

[Big Dog]

Could always do what at least one kber does and walk around asking inappropriate questions in an effort to cloak their discomfort in humour. Quotes from previous kb funerals:
Are we having a barbecue or a hangi?
Do you reckon he packed feathers or a fan?
Do you reckon he'd prefer a roast or an umu?
Do you reckon anyone would care if I took the rest of the sausage rolls? Pretty sure he won't want them.


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[Brian d marge]

Dead bikers are usually lauded for dying "doing what they loved", and other trite twaddle. One wonders if that was true in this case.

I think he was already convicted for that

Stephen

[Dangsta]

I know we've gone off topic a bit given we started off taking the piss out of a dead rapist (which I think are the best kind). But then it got interesting when we were talking about a quiet painless death versus a gory painful one.

Considering death is the absolute last thing you'll ever do and experience. Would you honestly rather go quietly in your sleep or in sensory overload, screaming in agony? This isn't a die young or old question as that's an easy answer.

[BoristheBiter]

Still missing the point. It's a platitude. It makes the person saying or writing it feel like they are being deep and meaningful and providing support, but it makes the people they are saying it to feel patronised and confused.

No I got your point, it's still a statement of fact at a time when people just don't know what to say.

[Genestho]

Still missing the point. It's a platitude. It makes the person saying or writing it feel like they are being deep and meaningful and providing support, but it makes the people they are saying it to feel patronised and confused.

I don't know, Jim.. I've said it and it were true.

It was the bit after the enjoyment abruptly ended that you know was the most frightening thing a person that survives through a crash could suffer through.
Sometimes people really don't know what to say to support and that should be forgiven - at some point.

I've heard worse - It's probably better than saying "These things happen for a reason, or, god has a plan" Never say that - Those ones require a punch in the mouth.

Really? To leave children to grow up through every milestone minus a loving parent, to completely sever the expected future and alter all's involved lives forever, their views on life and people, to cause someone so much prolonged mental and physical pain? *Twack*

[Mushu]

That's not what we're talking about mushu, but nice attempt at a strawman argument.

Platitudes is the subject. "Died doing what they loved", is imbecilic. Q.E.D.

Not really a strawman argument, whilst I did ignore the original post (who really gives a fuck if a rapist crashed a bike into a bridge, good result really) to call it a strawman argument would require me to have made knowingly incorrect assertions on the original subject. I, instead, chose to ignore all that and reply to a post that had already gone off on a tangent.

Platitudes is all you hear when you are family to someone deceased there are no magic words of comfort. I would be happier if I died as a result of my own stupidity than any other reason I can think of. Plenty of fun things I do are dangerous, I could stop doing them and be far safer or I could carry on and know that one day one of those things may kill me.

And I hope that at my funeral someone can say "atleast he died doing something he loved" seems to me the best ways to go are things like riding, driving, fucking etc (all three of those things are responsible for countless deaths) they all sound better to me than illness, industrial accident, murder, suicide etc...

[MVnut]

I hope the bridge is okay

[Drew]

Could always do what at least one kber does and walk around asking inappropriate questions in an effort to cloak their discomfort in humour. Quotes from previous kb funerals:
Are we having a barbecue or a hangi?
Do you reckon he packed feathers or a fan?
Do you reckon he'd prefer a roast or an umu?
Do you reckon anyone would care if I took the rest of the sausage rolls? Pretty sure he won't want them.

I really wanna meet that person!