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[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
now why would someone take a picture of those kids mourning their father?? cameras at funerals are tacky to me. i almost knocked the black off my cousin at my grandmother's funeral for taking pictures.

Where I grew up (Mississippi), it was a common thing to take pics of the deceased at funerals.

[OrangeMoon]

I decided to take a look at wireimage to view pictures from ODB's funeral. WHY OHHHHHHHH WHYYYY does a caption read "Passion Jones, Kirshana Rucker and Suzanne Dirt McGirt's Babies Mothers."

[prayerfull]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
That is very tacky to me. Back in high school when I worked at Taco Bell, my asst. manager's mom died, why did she bring pictures to show us of her mother lying in her casket?

This lady at my mom's church sent my sister the VIDEOTAPE of her son's funeral in the mail. There were these 10-15 minutes shots of her son in the casket, etc. My sister was SPOOKED out. WTF do you send people a videotape in the mail titled "Tony's Homegoing Service". The same woman invited me to her house to watch the tape and look at countless photographs of her son in the casket - at every angle no less. I had to make up an excuse to get the heck out of there.

It's pretty weird - this same woman acutally has a VIDEO LIBRARY of about 30 people's funeral services...and she watches that chit on the regular.

I'm sorry, but is reality TV not enough for you?

[NUPE4LIFE]

It must be a southern thing, cause at every family funeral we always take pictures. I also believe that one of the funeral homes in town take polaroid snapshops of the deceased and give them to the family as part of the funeral package.

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by Paradise359
It was very uncomfortable to watch b/c Star looked like she was joking but in truth she was serious. Poor Elizabeth was practically shaking! lol It should have been talked about before they said "action!" b/c raw emotions came out. But they seem to be close & when you're close to people you can "express yourself" & still be cool. I'm sure they're fine but they won't mess with MY Soror again! lol "NO WIRE HANGERS!"

I saw part of The View yesterday, and everyone seemed to be all smiles. Still, Star should not have put them on blast in public. That whole conversation could have taken place backstage or somewhere.

[Virtual Violet]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
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RRa and Ashanti's lil sister?

FROM THE MIAMI HERALD 11/18/04

R. Kelly report an Internet hoax


An item in Saturday's People column incorrectly reported that R&B singer R. Kelly had been hit with a summons by the family of singer Ashanti, for allegedly making sexual advances toward her younger sister while backstage at a recent awards show.

''This is an Internet hoax and was never reported by The Associated Press,'' said Kristin Gazlay, AP deputy managing editor for national news. ``It's all over the place.''

There is no truth to the item; no charges are pending.

[RedefinedDiva]

I pass on the funeral pictures. At my friend's funeral in October, her uncle was there with a camcorder. No one else seemed to notice him, but I was staring him DOWN, like "Ohhhh HELL NO!!!"

I have seen funeral pictures with people posing next to the casket like they are taking one of those polaroids you take at the club!!

Sometimes I wonder if I should have taken pictures of my loved ones in their final state, but I know that I would go to PIECES if I ever looked at them.

[Steeltrap]

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The idea of funeral pix is just ghoulish to me. I could barely deal with seeing my father at his viewing, so I wouldn't imagine taking pictures.

[vanda]

I first noticed photos being taken at my Great Grandmother's funeral. Now since I work with seniors it's more frequent. I interviewed one lady who had a picture of her husband in his casket blown u that it covered half her room. Another senior had a painting of his wife in her casket. I kept wondering who in the hell would take on a painting assignment like that?

[Honeykiss1974]

Convicted Church Bomber Dies in Prison

Associated Press


MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Bobby Frank Cherry, convicted of killing four black girls in a racially motivated bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963, died Thursday in prison. He was 74.

Cherry died at about 3:30 p.m. in the hospital unit at Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.

Cherry was convicted in May 2002 in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a gathering place for civil rights demonstators in Birmingham, and was sentenced to life in prison. It was the deadliest act of the civil rights era.

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[abaici]

Originally posted by RedefinedDiva
I have seen funeral pictures with people posing next to the casket like they are taking one of those polaroids you take at the club!!

My family is from a small town in Louisiana. When my uncle died, it was in the local Black paper for about two weeks. WHY DID THE TACKY EDITOR take a picture of my dad and his siblings viewing my uncle's body at the wake and make it the centerpiece of her story. It was so tasteless. WHY???? People mourning the lost of their little brother is not meant for public consumption. I can't stand her!

[TonyB06]

this is why GC is so interesting; learning about different cultural expressions. I hate funerals anyway but go because they are for the living (respect, comfort for the family), not the deceased.

I always tell my boys "if you go out and get hit by a bus, I'd rather my last earthly image of you be from the last time we kicked it, not laid out in a coffin." But as I said, funerals are for the living, not the deceased.

[MeezDiscreet]

according to supa cindy...

Braced for problems she is sure will soon come, ODB’s wife is preparing for an all out battle over his estate. Although ODB also known as Russell Jones has no written will, it has been reported for years that ODB fathered more than 12 or 13 kids. “For the record, he only has three children”, Icelene Jones his wife of 13 years said to the NY Post. “Nothing else was ever proven. There were never any blood tests or his signing any birth certificates. He has three children that we know that are his by his wife only-by me. People will try to sue me”. Though reports have been said that ODB collapsed in the studio, according to his son Barson those reports aren’t accurate. “He was complaining about his chest hurting, and he was sitting on the floor, and he asked someone to help him get up and go to the couch. He said he wanted some water, but it wasn’t cold enough. He went to sleep and never woke back up”.

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally posted by TonyB06
I always tell my boys "if you go out and get hit by a bus, I'd rather my last earthly image of you be from the last time we kicked it, not laid out in a coffin."

PRECISELY!!

[OrangeMoon]

Rosa Parks' Family Concerned Of Mismanaged Finances