When I Die...Will They LIGHT UP the SKY?

[GammaGlobulin]

Here is a question for some of you:

 

I have noticed that, in Thailand, when a person dies, then the family home of the deceased is LIT UP with VERY BRIGHT WHITE LIGHTS....as if it were High Noon!

And, the lights remain on, from dusk to dawn.

 

Why is this?

 

Everything is WHITE, WHITE, White....WHITE!....at NIGHT, NIGHT, NIGHT!

 

Even at 3AM, you still gotta wear dark sunglasses just to go outside in the night.

 

How many CANDLE POWER are they using, anyway?

Must be...like....about 100 THOUSAND Watts, or something!!!!

 

But why, I wonder.

 

Anybody know?

 

Because, is this a good thing now that we have known for decades about LIGHT POLLUTION?

 

With all these bright lights around their houses of the deceased....then....

WHAT are they LOOKING FOR.....Anyway?

 

I have no idea.

 

I do not understand it.

 

Anyone know?

 

Regards,

Gamma

 

Note:  Of course, we all know about Light Pollution....right?

 

 

 

Note2:  And, it can't be too healthy for the living...can it?

 

I mean...we all evolved to live in a world with a dark night....and....

 

So...Why should there be so much light in one house, just because someone might have recently ceased to breathe?

 

Note3:  What are the advantages for the deceased of having SO MUCH light?  Don't the dead care anymore about all this wasted wattage?

 

I really wanna know.....

 

Note4:  Catcher in the Rye. If you really want to know....

 

YES. I really wanna know.....!

 

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

The only light after I die will be the fire in the crematorium.

Wouldn't have it any other way.

[stoner]

you poor fella. 

[StreetCowboy]

I hope I'm old before I die
When I die and they lay me to rest, I'm going to go to the place that's the best

[still kicking]

Another fantastic tread 

[StreetCowboy]

1 hour ago, still kicking said:

Another fantastic tread

Your links don't work

[still kicking]

7 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Your links don't work

I did not post a link.

[StreetCowboy]

4 minutes ago, still kicking said:

I did not post a link.

That was probably half of the problem

Edited January 9 by StreetCowboy

[GammaGlobulin]

20 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

I hope I'm old before I die
When I die and they lay me to rest, I'm going to go to the place that's the best

 

In Taiwan, I recall when my GFs father died at age 95....

 

They had his body laid out in the street, covered by a huge tent made out of that woven blue and white plastic material, with PLENTY OF LIGHTING, and the thing was...that the body could not be left unattended, according to Chinese custom.

 

It lay there in a coffin in the road...for about....40 days and nights....just waiting for an auspicious date to put the old man in an urn, and put the urn in a hole in the mountains.

 

Different strokes for different folks.

 

I just don't like these extended funeral rites when held in the streets.

 

They give me the heebie-jeebies, and the lights bother me, too.

 

What a waste of wattage!

 

 

[Gottfrid]

No, they wont!

[Trippy]

It's Thai culture, just like it's Farang culture to complain about it.

[GammaGlobulin]

10 minutes ago, Trippy said:

It's Thai culture, just like it's Farang culture to complain about it.

 

IMHO....  This is CHINESE traditional culture.

 

And, the influence of Chinese culture on SE Asia, as well as the rest of the world, almost...is....IMMENSE 

 

a. I love Chinese culture

b.  I love Thai culture

 

I hate wasted wattage, however...

 

 

[Seppius]

There is light at the end of the tunnel, Hallelujah

[GammaGlobulin]

16 minutes ago, Trippy said:

It's Thai culture, just like it's Farang culture to complain about it.

 

Speaking of Chinese culture, which influences Thai culture, quite a bit:

 

In Taiwan, they are big on washing the deceased's bones about one or two years after death.

 

I am not complaining about this practice.

 

However, for me as a farang, I would prefer to have my bone washed before death, and not after I am dead and unable to enjoy this tradition to the fullest.

 

Also, the Chinese eat soup after the meal, and I agree with this post-meal tradition.

 

Still, as I say, my bone washing should occur pre-demise, in all cases.

 

Thank you.

 

Regards,

Gamma

 

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

3 minutes ago, Seppius said:

There is light at the end of the tunnel, Hallelujah

 

But no tunnel of love at the end of the tunnel, should we expect, I think.

 

 

[CanadaSam]