Rest In Peace

[Johnfromokc]

RIP - What does it really mean? I've said it and probably everyone else has too.

Does it mean best wishes in the After Life?

What do you visualize when you say RIP?

 

[alice in chains]

someone sleeping in a box. i think it's just an artistic expression, probably came from the Romans I'd guess

 

[Thornless]

Rest in peace.

 

[zen]

Looney tune cartoons. Honestly. I always saw it on cartoons when I was a kid.

 

[Panacea]

I picture the deceased at a funeral viewing, really...or in their plot. Nothing to do with the afterlife, I actually think it wouldn't make much sense to relate it to an after life theory- one doesn't rest, right? They float around and eat Philadeplhia cream cheese bagels with angels?

 

[Peter Parka]

I guess that when you die and are buried or whatever its in a nice, peaceful place which dosen't get disturbed or desecrated.

 

[Zorak]

I say it because it's the social norm.
I don't think anything of it, I know it's a ridiculous statement, but it doesn't get peoples backs up like: "I hope you won't rise from the dead and be a puppet of the dark lord."

 

[Joe the meek]

And here I thought the topic was going to be Whitney Houston.

To answer your question, I think RIP is along the lines of "eternal sleep".

 

[fallout]

Maybe Its Rot In Peace, personally I don't visualize anything... Not sure why though

 

[Joe the meek]

Maybe Its Rot In Peace, personally I don't visualize anything... Not sure why though

Kind of hard to rot if you're cremated LOL

 

[fallout]

If your cremated it would be SIP Settle In Peace

 

[Joe the meek]

If your cremated it would be SIP Settle In Peace

With my wife and I, more like SOI20LIP (spread out in 20 locations in peace) LOL

May leave some for the kids so if they have cats down the road they'll have some kitty litter.

 

[HK]

I don't usually say it. It doesn't sound right to me.


Especially because I associate the idea of someone not resting peacefully with them coming back to do a little haunting :ninja

 

[AUFred]

Rest in peace to me means. Most people struggle in life just to survive. They are never at peace truly or struggle against disease to live. Rest in peace seems fitting.

 

[Johnfromokc]

I picture the deceased at a funeral viewing, really...or in their plot. Nothing to do with the afterlife, I actually think it wouldn't make much sense to relate it to an after life theory- one doesn't rest, right? They float around and eat Philadeplhia cream cheese bagels with angels?

So if one does not visualize rest in the after life then it really means "Rot In Peace"?

 

[Johnfromokc]

Maybe Its Rot In Peace, personally I don't visualize anything... Not sure why though

Didn't see this before I posted, lol.