An Alabama community has been inspired by the child's selflessness.
  • PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Who needs a funeral home or tombstone. I’ve told my family to burn me and not have a traditional funeral. I want them to spend the least money possible. Put me in a necklace, plant a tree, spread my ashes somewhere, whatever. Things that don’t need to be done in a funeral home. It will be hard enough for them to go through losing their father/husband, last thing I want is to cause financial hardship.

    (I’m by no means taking away from this story, it’s terrible.)

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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      3 months ago

      FYI, cremation can still be expensive. If you are serious about spending the least amount of money possible, consider telling your family you’d like to be donated to science. But, do be aware, there can be some controversial things under the umbrella of “donated for science”, and they’d have no control over what.

  • downpunxx@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    "On Thursday, around 100-150 folks came out, according to Debbie, to purchase a drink. Even more brought donations from friends who couldn’t make it out. Some people drove up and handed the family their donations in exchange for a cup; others got out and mingled and talked with the family. Some brought more lemonade, sugar, lemons and cups in case Emouree ran out. (In fact, the local Piggly Wiggly ran out of lemons Thursday.)

    So much of the community was there – police officers, a motorcycle group, judges, EMS workers, nurses – to show their support. Numerous businesses – the list is long, and it keeps growing – brought checks or pledged money to help. Others have donated clothes for Emouree and brought food.

    But that’s not it. Multiple local monument companies reached out to donate a tombstone to the family, and enough money has been raised to pay for her mom’s funeral costs."

    As community should, this is not a dystopian story. People die, mothers die, this is a story of community coming together to help a little girl heal.

      • downpunxx@fedia.io
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        3 months ago

        poor people exist, poor mothers die, this is not dystopian, it’s the human condition, it maybe unfair, and point to an unfair system, but it’s not dystopian, this isn’t new, and it isn’t imagines, it’s the way things always have been. words have meaning. and this doesn’t mean that.

          • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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            3 months ago

            Choose one

            Dystopia doesn’t mean what you think it does. Hint: it is not existence of poor people. It doesn’t have anything to do with poor people at all.

              • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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                3 months ago

                my point is that poor does not automatically imply dystopian and therefor your a suggestion to the contrary (choose between “poor” and “not dystopian”) is not true, as can be seen in this handy matrix

                poverty is attribute that can be present in dystopia, but it is not a necessity.

                in most major dystopias in popular culture (1984, Fahrenheit 451, blade runner, logan’s run) the poverty is not the defining factor.

                and on the opposite side, people can be poor, struggling through hardships, but still be looking for a bright future instead of feeling oppressed or dystopian.

                as can be seen in scifi colonization stories or in real life communities in poor countries. despite lacking the wealth of the top 10% of western population, without our mortgages or antidepressants (or maybe just because of that), they can be much happier.