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[Dazed and Confused]

I had to put my dog to sleep earlier this year. I elected not to go to the crematoriam. A couple days later I got his ashes back with pictures of the funeral service. I was a bit much at the time but I appreciate them now.
Now I tell my neices, nephews and elementary school aged students that I've got a dead dog in a box next to my bed. They find it hilarious and horrifying alll at the same time.

Apparently at human funerals in Korea you get to watch them put your loved one in the cremator box and then you get the pleasure of pushing the button to start up the fires. This is done after you've already washed and dressed the dead. When the fires are done you get to take the bones and dump them in the grinder and then pour them into the urn.

[murmanjake]

[mollayo]

Holy jeebus.

[daemyann]

What I said stands.

It sucks to lose life, any life, but some much more than others.
To conflate the loss of an animal with that of a living breathing person may be poetic, but it's also a very deep disservice to the people in that persons life.

Anyway, I apologize for derailing. Sorry for you and your girlfriend's loss, and the bizarre turn of events that followed it.

[towl]

Very interesting story OP, I'm glad I read it. Also, very funny, not about the death and all that, but really, your funeral parlor experience is pretty trippy.

[dongjak]

[Died By Bear]

In addition to "bad things to eat" by poster number 3, I would stay far, far, far away from ever giving my doggy chocolate. Just a reminder, it's bad M'kay?

[GreenlightmeansGO]

This reminded me of the Newsradio episode where they catch all the rats and think they are incinerating them, when actually they are just dropping them down the mail chute.

[Illysook]

My mom's dog gets into everything. He's probably 75 lbs or so and a Chocolate Lab. He found my handbag and ate a package of Reese's cups that I had in there and mom called the vet who said that although we should try not to let it happen again, it would actually take about a pound of baking chocolate to do him real damage. So don't give your dog chocolate, but don't be paranoid either.

I'm more of a cat person though. Don't even think of giving Lilies to a woman who has a cat. They are deadly!

[DeMayonnaise]

Jeeez....could have at least made some 보신탕...

"Hey man, how about some lobster for us!"

"Pinchy would have wanted it this way...oh it's so good!...I wish Pinchy was here to have some...aaaauuggghhhh!!! Pinchy!!....pass the butter..."

[Jane]

Ah OP, sorry to hear about your dog. I guess your experience can attest to the way different cultures approach death. Nonetheless, I read your story and was terrified. Having had a dog as a pet my whole life, I can't even begin to imagine what the whole experience must have been like.

I hope gamja made it to heaven safely...

[Fishead soup]

Why didn't you eat it? Poshintang
I know I'm an asshole. Let the flames fly.

[redaxe]

[happninmojo]

I don't see anything weird with the situation, being in Asia the funeral is more ritualized. In the US we put animals to sleep and they get thrown in a dumpster. Granted the dead thing in question couldn't care less but one seems more dignified then the other.

Nice write up OP but you would have made a terrible viking...

[Skyblue]

Thanks for sharing that amazing story.

Sorry about your missus' dog.