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15803220 No.15803220 [Reply] [Original]

Would it be in bad taste to write an imagined elegy for someone who hasn't passed away?

>> No.15803230

>>15803220
Nah

>> No.15803287

>>15803220
yes

>> No.15803293

>>15803220
Maybe.

>> No.15803296

>>15803220
Everybody Loves Raymond addressed this theme very deftly

>> No.15803299

>>15803220
If you didn't like them, yes.

>> No.15803408

>>15803296
haha goddamn
source? just the name of the episode is fine

>> No.15803419

David Tibet of Current 93 wrote some elegies for some of his friends while they were alive. If you're a bunch of death-obsessed goth dweebs it might be appropriate and kind of romantic.

>> No.15803425

>>15803408
Pet the Bunny

>> No.15803446

A decent writing exercise but maybe in poor taste to show around unless the person is fine with it

>> No.15803465

>>15803220
I think about what I'm going to say at my parents funeral all the time.

>> No.15803560

>>15803465
For me it’s the lake isle of innis free by yeats

>> No.15803687

>>15803220
Thousands die every day, pick a name from necrology

>> No.15803710

>>15803425
thanks anon
you really came through for me

>> No.15803724

>>15803465
I do the same thing. I dwell more on my father's eulogy than that of my mother, though. I don't know whether that's because he'll almost certainly pass away first, or if it has more to do with the peculiarities of a male-male relationship. I've always heard that one's same gender parent kicking off is a big life event, and that it usually affects people more profoundly than the inverse

>> No.15803738

>>15803220
newspapers do this all the time, for people who are looking a bit under the weather, so they have something to publish quickly when that person dies

>> No.15804234

>>15803220
who cares about bad taste mate do whatever is fun for you

>> No.15804254

Nothing in art is forbidden, anon.

>> No.15804272

>>15803724
>I dwell more on my father's eulogy than that of my mother, though.
see https://youtu.be/17kdg9Q2kEI?t=182

>> No.15804653

>>15803220
What are you the ghost of Christmas future?

>> No.15805434

>>15803220
Post them OP; I want to see for myself.

>>15804653
Haha imagine OP showing the shit he wrote to his dad, the shock, the horror, the single tear.

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15805584

>>15803220
Ivan IV didn't kill his son

>> No.15806746

>>15805434
Nothing concrete just was thinking about a girl I used to see with whom I ended things with because I didn't like her enough to have sex. I got a gf eventually and although this girl remains a friend, I was thinking of how she's still a sweet girl that had zero bad intentions in her heart and everyone at worked liked her. I was thinking of how even though we weren't meant to be, she should know she's a good person and deserves nothing less than the world!