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Trappist Monks and the Culture of Death

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Apparently they make some of the best coffins in the world. According to the old saying, coffin manufacturers and the Internal Revenue Service have the surest business around 😉.

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Trappist monks are just okay with me.😏

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Aye...cool idea. They build coffins but bury their own departed on wooden boards.

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Cheap bastards!

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Zoroastrians, who by the way do not worship Zorro, leave their dead atop high 'towers of silence' to be picked at by birds. the thinking is that they then do not contaminate the fire - held to be sacred - as in cremation, nor the earth, as in burial...

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Originally posted by Bookworm
Cheap bastards!
Good for them! Ever tried paying for a funeral? The biggest two day waste of money there is. Except for maybe a wedding.

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Trappist Monks are brewers of the Belgian Trappist beer, that holds enough alcohol to kill those killer bacteria, you are so worried about ...... 🙄

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They also make some of the best jam I've seen.

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Originally posted by kirksey957
Good for them! Ever tried paying for a funeral? The biggest two day waste of money there is. Except for maybe a wedding.
I try to pay for funerals, but I keep on getting them for free!
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Originally posted by royalchicken
Apparently they make some of the best coffins in the world. According to the old saying, coffin manufacturers and the Internal Revenue Service have the surest business around 😉.
Speaking of cool coffins, I saw a newspaper photo last night of a coffin made in Ghana that looked just like a giant Coca Cola bottle. Reminded me of a TV documentary I saw about coffin making in Ghana one time - they custom make them to a theme connected with the life of the deceased. I guess this one was for a guy who worked for Coke, or drank a lot of the stuff. maybe that's what killed him. Wouldn't that be ironic?

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Hmmm, guess 'coke adds life' wouldn't be applicable there.

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Originally posted by royalchicken
They also make some of the best jam I've seen.

...... but not tasted ...... 😀

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You've got a point. I have tasted it, and it's excellent.

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Originally posted by royalchicken
You've got a point. I have tasted it, and it's excellent.

At least these members of the Roman Catholic Church are doing something right in your eyes. You should taste their beers .... uuuh .... when you're eighteen .... uuuh ..... or twenty one .... How are the laws in your state about alcohol consumption ?

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Originally posted by ivanhoe

At least these members of the Roman Catholic Church are doing something right in your eyes. You should taste their beers .... uuuh .... when you're eighteen .... uuuh ..... or twenty one .... How are the laws in your state about alcohol consumption ?
To my knowledge, all US states require one to be 21 to drink, although it is not enforced in 19 states. I'm actually not sure if there is a federal drinking law, but I'm almost sure there isn't; they tried that in the 1920s.

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