My grandmother-in-law [assuming that, technically speaking, there is such a thing], on my mother-in-law's side, passed away in her sleep a week ago at home at the age of 98 having picked up COVID when she was in hospital a few days before. She was buried immediately in the interest public cemetery by labourers organized by local government officials without any family in attendance. This has been the standard practice here since February 2020.
08 Dec 22
@fmf said[1] Has this "buried immediately" without a funeral thing been standard practice elsewhere in the world? [2] Is there such a thing as a "grandmother-in-law"?
My grandmother-in-law [assuming that, technically speaking, there is such a thing], on my mother-in-law's side, passed away in her sleep a week ago at home at the age of 98 having picked up COVID when she was in hospital a few days before. She was buried immediately in the interest public cemetery by labourers organized by local government officials without any family in attendance. This has been the standard practice here since February 2020.
08 Dec 22
@kewpie saidAs the founder of the thread I would deine "notable" as: noted and meaningful to someone.
Who defines " notable"?
Personally, I'd say my list would be very much shorter than most people's here. I would not include a single media person or sports person or entertainment person. I absolutely wouldn't include anyone who was famous for being famous.
I would include Stephen Hawking, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Dag Hammarskjold. But the thread would have very few posts in it, so I guess we have to count the celebrities in.
So if people want to share personal relations that is fine with me.
08 Dec 22
@ponderable saidPeople who will be remembered for notable or even extraordinary contributions.
As the founder of the thread I would deine "notable" as: noted and meaningful to someone.
So if people want to share personal relations that is fine with me.
08 Dec 22
@ponderable saidMy Brother-In-law older than me passed on Christmas day last year at 75. He was well all his life, and when he got sick he went fast. Him and I knew each other since I was in my late teens 17. We never had a bad word all these years and helped each other out at different times during all those decades. He and my sister who also passed back in 2013 just before Christmas. They both loved Christmas and went all out. This time of the year gets me thinking of both of them. I still pick up the phone to call him after almost a year.
As the founder of the thread I would deine "notable" as: noted and meaningful to someone.
So if people want to share personal relations that is fine with me.
-VR
