Mojo Request One of my best friends passed away this morning

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jbj

Poor old Geordie's array...
He's the oldest mate I still talk to and see regularly.

I've mentioned him a few times here, he was diagnosed with cancer when I was in KSA and then his dad passed away in September.

He's been in and out of hospital recently for a few funny turns but apparently he was having good results with the chemo with regards to the cancer but it was giving the rest of his system a doing and he passed away peacefully in the early hours of the morning.

We all knew he was on borrowed time but it's still come out of the blue as he was doing well.

It's strange, I was thinking about him on the way to work this morning and about a time we jumped on a plane to Prague and spent a week there and in Berlin getting fucked up, chasing girls and getting beer money busking with my guitar.

Not really looking for mojo for me but his sister and mum have lost a father / husband and brother / son in the past 6 months so if you folks can throw a little prayer or mojo towards the McAuslen's then it would be appreciated.:thu:

We had tickets to see Waters doing the Wall in Manchester in May, do you think asking for some of his ashes to take down so he's there would be an Ok thing to propose?
 
Mojo and prayers dude, to you and all who were close to him. So sorry to hear this.

Yeah, bring some ashes. Why not?
 
My heart does go out to you, jbj, there being too many young deaths around here too.
It will be easy for me to remember The McAuslen Clan in my prayers.

But... your idea about spreading the deceaseds' ashes at a major rock festival, especially Pink Floyd...

All the cultures that evolved as humanity, that spread the ashes of their deceased as a spiritual practice,
use water. You're not tying up local land for use as a cemetery, and you're cleansing the bones with fire.
While your religious practice might not include that, it doesn't have to mean anything.
But if the practice of spreading ashes means anything, not using Gods' nature, flowing back into the ocean,
from whence all live emerged,
you might wonder about what ground you're spreading him on, and who's going to "party" all over him.
Max Webster, with the lyrics of Pye Dubois, had a song that went...
"I should be down, six feet under, pushing up wheat for the hungry".
You might want to think about that too. You don't want "a cold morning in the drums".

What is local for you, as far as your American history goes, is the Apache method of interring their dead.
They laid them on a tier propped up by tree limbs, up off the ground, away from predators.
And when the flesh was born away by the winds, and the bones were sun-bleached white and clean,
they would be buried with a special ceremony in a special place. The Great Spirit was always present.
 
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Mojo, man. And yeah, if that concert was important enough for him to plan into his last months then I think it'd be appropriate to take a piece of him when you go.
 
Mojo for all concerned.

As for the ashes, just make sure you work it out ahead of time so the guards don't confiscate a "baggie filled with suspicious powder" at the gate.
 
Aw man. I'm sorry. Much Mojo sent to all of you guys.

Take him to the show. He would have loved it.
 
mojo indeed.

the ashes idea sounds good, and Tralfaz raises a good point too, about the security at the event
 
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