U know what u do when u'r dead?

[Duemellon]

Nothing. You do nothing dude... because you're dead.

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Last Updated: 11:41 am | Tuesday, May 13, 2008
RIP? Not with wrong man in grave (http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080513/NEWS01/305130048)

BY CLIFF RADEL | CRADEL@ENQUIRER.COM
COLERAIN TWP. – David L. Bingham can’t rest in peace.

Another man, another David L. Bingham, is already in his grave, lying next to his mother.

“My mom and I always talked about being buried next to each other,” said the very-much-alive David L. Bingham.

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He said he was offered four options.

In option one, his mother would be moved to another grave where he could one day join her.

“I told them they had one less option,” Bingham said. “She’s not going to be moved. She loved that spot.”

Evelyn Bingham’s grave rests on a rise, three rows from the road and just across the street from Pleasant Run Middle School. Weekdays, the laughter of children spills from the school’s playground into the cemetery.

Option two consisted of cremating David L. Bingham, when his time came, and burying his ashes in his mother’s grave.

“That’s out,” he said. “I hate fire.”

Option three involved digging up and relocating the late David L. Bingham Sr. Then, some day in the future, the grave to Evelyn Bingham’s left would be occupied by her son, David.

“I don’t want to be buried in a used grave,” Bingham said.

For option four, Bingham could be buried anywhere in the cemetery.

He told cemetery officials he declined all of the above.

They said would get back to him in two days.

“I have yet to hear from them,” Bingham said.

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Meanwhile, Bingham suffers. He’s already on 100 percent disability for post-traumatic stress disorder.

“I spent a year and a half in Vietnam – December 1966 to July 1968,” he said. “I saw too many dead bodies.”

Now, he’s trying to cope with the problems at his mom’s grave.

“This thing,” he said, “has sent me to the emergency room twice with anxiety attacks.”

He opened a folder and shows his emergency room papers.

“I shake constantly,” he said as he struggled to return his papers to the folder.

“This has made a wreck out of me.”

He can’t get any peace.

[Duemellon]

Color me insensitive but I really find the degree to which he won't use a used grave to be ridic. Not only is the idea that he's buried next to his mother merely symbolic but the idea that he thinks his vacant meatsack would somehow be uncomfortable because someone else's corpse was there 1st?

Such attention paid to the bonepuppets we miss the all important strings

[Predot listener]

He told cemetery officials he declined all of the above.

They said would get back to him in two days.

“I have yet to hear from them,” Bingham said.

What the hell is he expecting to hear? He's pretty much ruled out every available solution, except possibly not dying.

[drougan]

Yay. Shoddy reporting.

Was this the dude's father? Some kind of mixup? WTF?

But yeah, when you're dead you're dead, the only thing that matters about what happens after is how those who survive you remember you. So why don't you give them something good to remember you by instead of being a douche.

[patio]

u use too many u's?

[jcarwash31]

Color me insensitive but I really find the degree to which he won't use a used grave to be ridic. Not only is the idea that he's buried next to his mother merely symbolic but the idea that he thinks his vacant meatsack would somehow be uncomfortable because someone else's corpse was there 1st?

Such attention paid to the bonepuppets we miss the all important strings
I hear ya. I felt the same about this:

Option two consisted of cremating David L. Bingham, when his time came, and burying his ashes in his mother’s grave.

“That’s out,” he said. “I hate fire.”
You're dead. You won't notice the fire.

[silentpaul]

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[Duemellon]

Yay. Shoddy reporting.

Was this the dude's father? Some kind of mixup? WTF?I can see you didn't read the whole article but they did point out it wasn't. His father is buried in an entirely different state so they covered that.

I hate fire... wtf mate?

You should read it for the weird jokes he made about being next to his mother. Really dude, what do you think he's really going for? Have them replace all the dirt around this other guy? Beg for a landshifting earthquake or ground gouging flash flood?

[drougan]

I can see you didn't read the whole article but they did point out it wasn't. His father is buried in an entirely different state so they covered that.

I hate fire... wtf mate?

You should read it for the weird jokes he made about being next to his mother. Really dude, what do you think he's really going for? Have them replace all the dirt around this other guy? Beg for a landshifting earthquake or ground gouging flash flood?

oh....you edited it.....grrrr

[Duemellon]

oh....you edited it.....grrrrI do the elipse thing ... to denote text that's missing. I'll go back & make the ... more prominent now. It's sequentially correct, btw.

[dannyboy]

There's really nothing to fear about death. All of us were already dead before we were born.

[ahart2001]

There's really nothing to fear about death. All of us were already dead before we were born.

I thought there is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Or was it to fear that the beer will run out? . . . . . .

[wileE]

They should tell him that when you die, you won't hate anything. You are at peace with everything, especially fire. Now climb into this crucible.

[PeterABnny]

There's really nothing to fear about death. All of us were already dead before we were born.

The gravedigger puts on the forecepts
The stonemason does all the work
The moment you're born you start dying
So you might as well have a good time...

[PeterABnny]

What the hell is he expecting to hear? He's pretty much ruled out every available solution, except possibly not dying.

Shooting him into outer space?

[wileE]

This was in the paper today. What a whiner.