'Selfies at Funerals'

[Dick Whitman]

This should have actually been the last chapter of Dave Eggers' anti-social networking screed, "The Circle." But it would have seemed too ridiculous:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/selfies-at-funerals/280972/

We are officially a species of total ****ing idiots.

 

[poindexter]

I posted this on my fb this morning.

 

[Versatile]

I mean, at least take the selfie with the corpse.

 

[Double J]

I saw a similar collection yesterday with many of these same pictures, and in one of them the corpse was indeed captured.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Beats "Selfies with Unflushed Toilets Inadvertently in the Background," a few of which I've seen on various "Fail" blogs.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Just the word "selfie" makes my skin crawl.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Beats "Selfies with Unflushed Toilets Inadvertently in the Background," a few of which I've seen on various "Fail" blogs.

False. NOTHING beats those, or "Selfies with Dogs ****ing/****ting in the Background."

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I've watched football games at funerals. Maybe it was a wake. Can't remember.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I've watched football games at funerals. Maybe it was a wake. Can't remember.

I'm not trying to be the funeral police here. It's the unrelenting narcissism that infuriates me, not the fact that the sanctity of the funeral has been breached, generally.

 

[playthrough]

Just the word "selfie" makes my skin crawl.

This. Who coins these bastards of the language?

 

[MisterCreosote]

I mean, at least take the selfie with the corpse.

 

[Huggy]

Beats "Selfies with Unflushed Toilets Inadvertently in the Background," a few of which I've seen on various "Fail" blogs.

People should at least have the decency to post those at ratemypoo.com.

 

[Sea Bass]

A guy I work with posted a video to Facebook of his mother being lowered into the ground this summer.

 

[Sea Bass]

I mean, at least take the selfie with the corpse.

Is that Donovan McNabb? Did his mother die from too much Chunky Soup?

 

[poindexter]

Salon is taking up the debate:

In defense of funeral selfies

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/30/in_defense_of_funeral_selfies/singleton/

 

[Dick Whitman]

Salon is taking up the debate:

In defense of funeral selfies

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/30/in_defense_of_funeral_selfies/singleton/

Working Slate's corners, I see.

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

Last fall, we lost my dad's uncle, who was the family sage. At the gravesite, my mother was taking photos, then recording with her phone. I wanted to kill her. Then, I found out she was sending it to my dad's sister and family, who are missionaries in the Philippines and couldn't get home for it.

So I'm not sure what to think.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

Notice that about all of these people are 13-15 (or so) kids, mostly girls. I don't get the whole "fish lips" thing. I have a niece who changes her twitter pic about once a week to a new selfie, and she's always doing the "fish lips" "I just ate a skunk turd" look. WTF?

 

[joe]

Just the word "selfie" makes my skin crawl.

Makes me want to beat the **** out of somebody, just on general principles.

 

[Bradley Guire]

I don't know about self portraits, but photos and recordings of funerals don't seem like anything new. I've seen them from grandparents on both sides of my family. Funerals for people I never knew, like great-grandparents, etc. Maybe one picture of the deceased or of the arrangements, mostly pictures of people together because sometimes families just don't seem to get together unless it's a wedding or funeral. I even found an audio cassette of a funeral service. This is not new. Or I have a weird family. Whatevs.