You're only as dead as you feel

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31 Comments

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 2y (5 replies)

But you wouldn't be sand, you would be ash. And that would make for a shitty hourglass.

xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com · 43 pts · 2y

So you can continue to be shitty in family game night! Don't you also want to continue to cause disagreements and conflicts between family members?

Promethiel@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Don't let my family know, I still want to keep ruining speed Monopoly...

But I wouldn't object if my ashes are like, 85% sand by volume. I'd be too dead.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

"Filtered Promethiel"

GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Maybe you could mix the ashes with clay, have it fired and then grind or crush the ceramic into sand.

FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

It would definitely need some processing. Bit of Fumed Silica might also help to make it free-flowing.

DahGangalang@infosec.pub · 27 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Just gonna leave this here:

Hour Glass Urns

Soolonkivi@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Had the same business idea when I saw this post.

kamenlady@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They are one drunk night idea away from making a key chain

importedreality@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

They make a charm-bracelet sized one that could easily fit on a keychain

SomeGuy69@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

A fucking neckless? Damn! You could gift it grandma before the time is up.

nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y

We’re all neckless after being cremated.

But if we end up on a necklace, does that make it ironic?

ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

"Lifetime warranty"

Hopefully for the living relatives

PapaStevesy@midwest.social · 23 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What if I get cremated before I die?

maniclucky@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y

Then you get to participate in game night and be a disturbing anecdote.

rjc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

I mean.. not MUCH before

KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

put my ashes in a snow globe.

Please, i think it would be funny.

Emerald@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Snow globe from hell

KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y

you say that like it would even be noticeable. You would probably just think it's a weird nuclear fallout snowglobe type thing, until you flipped it over and looked at the bottom. Or dropped it.

radiant_bloom@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y (5 replies)

That would be one MASSIVE hourglass that would last multiple hours 💀

Twelve20two@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The great Familial Hourglass that contains generations and generations of ashes

milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Different-length hourglasses for different people. Grandfather over there is a 3-hours, but if you don't eat your cornflakes, Timmy, you're only going to be a 3-minutes!

Twelve20two@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y

That's dreadful; I love it

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

And if you stuck a dagger in it it would cause everyone to turn into sand zombies.

olutukko@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

not that big with water cremation I think. still quite big. it doesnt have any box ash with you. or you could make plenty of lityle ones for the whole extended family

Gsus4@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 2y

Can't tell if gruesome or wholesome :S

Emerald@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Yoo new business idea for my parents. they can sell "luxury" hourglasses with my ashes.

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Or a stepping stone! I wanna be a stepping stone! You can mix ashes into concrete and it makes it stronger depending on the amount.

FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 2y

Reminds me of a comic where Chaos Spacemarines from different factions are holding a meeting and the Tzeentch marine never shows up so the Khorne marine screams "HES PLAYING US LIKE A GODDAMN FIDDLE" but the real meta joke is that the Tzeentch marine is there, he's the sand in the hourglass.

sagrotan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Dad's last pranks: the eggs are too hard

PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

Well, now I'm sad. Thanks.