Is it weird to celebrate someone's birthday after they die?

I dont think its wierd at all, i think its really nice. I was in workk all day today and then had to do revision because i'm doing my a-levels. what about you? x

Last edited by JenBunney (06-08-2008 21:43)

On my Grans birthday my Mother always puts a rose in the vase next to her photo. It's nice :)xx

I don't think its weird, your celebrating that they had life and that you loved them.


I bimboed all day.

Um is it weird to eat cake because someone died? o.o;; My dad's mother was a witch and when she kicked the bucket my mom bought cake while my dad was went to Texas for the funeral. She really was a horrid woman. She hated my mom so much that she even hated me and my little brother. My mom had other kids(my older sibs) by another man and my dad's mother wouldn't accept them even after my dad adopted them. And when my parents had me and my little brother she didn't even care too much for us either because we were my mom's blood. Everytime we went to visit she had this camper outside that had snakes in it that she forced us to stay in and she told my dad she didn't want us in her house and he was the only one allowed to stay in the house. He, needless to say, stayed out in the camper with us. She even trained her parrots to snap at our fingers or arms if we got too close to their cages. Anyways when she died my mom got a cake that said "Ding dong the witch is dead" on it. I disliked the woman a lot because of how she treated us. As a mother now there is no excuse for treating children like that. I recall one time she purposefully told me to pet a snap turtle and her own husband(who was my dad's step father) had to step in and stop me before I did it.

So no. I don't think you're weird. Cuz I did something somewhat like it.

JenBunney wrote:

numba1bimbx wrote:

JenBunney wrote:

I dont think its wierd at all, i think its really nice. I was in workk all day today and then had to do revision because i'm going my a-levels. what about you? x

Spent the day revising for a-levels too. What a-levels do you have?

I'm doing English literature and Sociology, i did I.T aswell but you dont have a test for that. what tets have you got?

My nan diead agessss ago, my mum and me always go to the cemetery and leave flowers, and really ncie ones on her bday..not really a celbreation but..its something x

I have history law and politics last exam on the 20th and can't wait.

When someone dies in my family we celebrate their life by having a big party. It's always very colourful and loads of food. We also have presents for that person too. It's good because people then rememebr just how good the person was in life and what we will miss about them and love about them.

MysteriaKiito wrote:

Um is it weird to eat cake because someone died? o.o;; My dad's mother was a witch and when she kicked the bucket my mom bought cake while my dad was went to Texas for the funeral. She really was a horrid woman. She hated my mom so much that she even hated me and my little brother. My mom had other kids(my older sibs) by another man and my dad's mother wouldn't accept them even after my dad adopted them. And when my parents had me and my little brother she didn't even care too much for us either because we were my mom's blood. Everytime we went to visit she had this camper outside that had snakes in it that she forced us to stay in and she told my dad she didn't want us in her house and he was the only one allowed to stay in the house. He, needless to say, stayed out in the camper with us. She even trained her parrots to snap at our fingers or arms if we got too close to their cages. Anyways when she died my mom got a cake that said "Ding dong the witch is dead" on it. I disliked the woman a lot because of how she treated us. As a mother now there is no excuse for treating children like that. I recall one time she purposefully told me to pet a snap turtle and her own husband(who was my dad's step father) had to step in and stop me before I did it.

So no. I don't think you're weird. Cuz I did something somewhat like it.

She was having cake because it was their bday

numba1bimbx wrote:

JenBunney wrote:

numba1bimbx wrote:

Spent the day revising for a-levels too. What a-levels do you have?

I have history law and politics last exam on the 20th and can't wait.

Is law good? if i got 3 b's then im studying computer science at uni, but 3 bs could be unlikely so im thinking about doing a law a level course and then go to unti to do law if i dont get in this year. my last exam is on the 12th yeyyy x

Skylor wrote:

The first B-day after they pass away is the hardest    The rest are sad too, my moms mom died 40 years ago but she still says something on her moms B-day every year...

Never hear of eating B-day cake at the cemetery but thats sweet 

Its the second one, but it was hard, especially on his middle son.

numba1bimbx wrote:

JenBunney wrote:

numba1bimbx wrote:

I have history law and politics last exam on the 20th and can't wait.

Is law good? if i got 3 b's then im studying computer science at uni, but 3 bs could be unlikely so im thinking about doing a law a level course and then go to unti to do law if i dont get in this year. my last exam is on the 12th yeyyy x

Law gets juicy in the second year. The first is so boring with english legal system and stuff. But year 2, you get to do criminal law and it is mind blowing! People always enjoy it. Law at uni though is really competitive. Like I was told that about 80000 apply for law at uni but only 14000 get a place. I'm not sure if this is true and have a suspicion the teacher that told me only said it to scare me straight but it is scary!

Your so lucky you finish your exams on the 12th, then you can start your summer real early.

yeah, i think law would be really interesting, but i imagine it would be really competitive. Is that what you want to do? Inoo im so happy i finish early. i go on holiday with my friends on the 26th!! wooo hopefully it'l be a nie summer

MysteriaKiito wrote:

Um is it weird to eat cake because someone died? o.o;; My dad's mother was a witch and when she kicked the bucket my mom bought cake while my dad was went to Texas for the funeral. She really was a horrid woman. She hated my mom so much that she even hated me and my little brother. My mom had other kids(my older sibs) by another man and my dad's mother wouldn't accept them even after my dad adopted them. And when my parents had me and my little brother she didn't even care too much for us either because we were my mom's blood. Everytime we went to visit she had this camper outside that had snakes in it that she forced us to stay in and she told my dad she didn't want us in her house and he was the only one allowed to stay in the house. He, needless to say, stayed out in the camper with us. She even trained her parrots to snap at our fingers or arms if we got too close to their cages. Anyways when she died my mom got a cake that said "Ding dong the witch is dead" on it. I disliked the woman a lot because of how she treated us. As a mother now there is no excuse for treating children like that. I recall one time she purposefully told me to pet a snap turtle and her own husband(who was my dad's step father) had to step in and stop me before I did it.

So no. I don't think you're weird. Cuz I did something somewhat like it.

Oh, I'm so sorry. And I thought my nanna was mean   The worse thing she did was tell my mum that out of all my nanna's children mum was the one who never should have had children. It's funny though, because my mum has three kids that have university degrees from the best university in Australia, yet none of her other grandchildren do.

I don't think it's weird! Sometimes novelists and composers and film directors will have a rerelease of their work come out on what would be their 100th birthday (like when Alfred Hitchcock would have turned 100).

So if this can be done on a commercial scale, I definitely think it can be done on a personal basis.

I don't think it's weird at all. I think it's really nice. My dad died five years ago, and I celebrate his birthday rather than commemorating the day he died. Remember the life, rather than the death.