Alright. So I was watching Corpse Bride, a movie I happen to enjoy, and I saw this scene. Of course, it's my favorite. I rewind it every time...several times. The dead walk the earth. All the earth people are like AAAHHH. And this one old lady starts beating one of the guys with her walker. This is how it goes down:
Old Woman: [hitting skeleton with her walker] Bounder!
Alfred the Skeleton: Sweetie pie!
Old Woman: Monster!
[hits him again]
Alfred the Skeleton: Buttercup.
Old Woman: Cad.
Alfred the Skeleton: GERTRUDE!
Old Woman: [adjusts her glasses] Alfred? Oh! You've been dead for fifteen years!
Alfred the Skeleton: [grabs old woman] Frankly, my dear,
[dips old woman]
Alfred the Skeleton: I don't give a damn!
[kisses her]
What if this happened? I mean, I'm not stupid, I know the dead aren't about to walk the earth anytime soon (at least...not without craving a tasty snack of human flesh) but what if. What if Gertrude had found another man? Would Alfred be pissed, or happy that his wife had found another to make her happy? What if, as he dips Gertrude, another guy comes up and is like "what the hell are you doing, dead skeleton dude? That's my girlfriend you've got there!"
What if your spouse died? Would you search for love again, or remain faithful to them forever?
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depends how old i was or where i was in life or how much they really meant to me in my soul. i honestly do not know at all.
well i think that for most people, if its fairly early on in life, they would move on and eventually find someone else. marriage does say "till death do us part" and that it doesnt mean you dont love your spouse anymore, but you cant dwell in the past forever and you deserve to be happy and move on with your life. i think that your spouse would want you to be happy and find someone else and live your life to the fullest while you're on earth. i dont believe jealousy exists in the afterlife either.
if you're really old though i dont think a lot of people move on. usually when one person goes it isnt too long before the other goes too, but thats just what i've observed a lot. its not always the case..
but it would be really hard for me to move on in any scenario. i hope i dont have to experience it, at least until my fiance and i had a long life fulfilled together.
oh and btw, I LOVE that movie too! =)
I would just take things as they come. If love found me again, then I'd like to think I could move on. But that doesn't mean I will find it again. It's not something you're going to pick up at the Supermarket...nor would I actively look.
@NadoAngel@xanga - I know! I love Tim Burton. And that is my absolute favorite scene.
I love that part too.
And when I saw this title I immediately thought of that, without knowing that is what it was!
I don't know what I would do if my husband died. It is a real possibility since he is in the Army so we have talked about it. I think it would be extremely difficult to move on. No one would be able to take fill the void he would leave behind and it would be unfair to ask any man to try to.
i think i would stay single after he's gone because i don't want anyone else.
He's the only one I want.
My SO had a talk about this.
I told him if I died, I would want him to be happy. If that meant finding another, then so be it.
He was honest with me. If he died, he would not want me being with anyone. He would want me to remain single throughout my whole life after him. And in my head, that's what I plan to do, if it ever happened.
I wouldn't find someone else. It wouldn't feel the same.
@Kara_K - That's a good idea, to talk about it. I'm glad you guys made a decision
If my SO died I don't think I would remarry or involve myself in a relationship again. I wouldn't go looking for love but if it found me... depending on how many years had passed maybe I might. I'm not exactly sure Id have to be in the situation to know.. But I don't think I would involve myself in another relationship..
I wouldn't remarry because he's the only one. :)) Besides, I think it would be really awkward with the new man if I did date again.
That depends. My wife and I are in our late 30s. So we're still young. But what if we were in, say, midlife? Or retired? If I become a widower when I'm in my 70s, maybe I won't have any desire to date and re-marry.
Whatever my husband wants. I can live single, and stay happy just thinking about him, even after death do us part. (:,
I really cant answer that & not just because I'm single. I dont want to focus on finding more people if I'm happily married. I mean....if I do find happiness again if my husband died, that's great. If not...that's fine too. As long as I have the happy memories & love, I'd be ok.
when I become an old fart, my chances of finding another love aren't that great, so I'd mourn my lover til I die. if I'm young, I'll mourn for a while, not sure how long but then I'll move on with my life. if I meet someone by destiny, then I'll give that a try. I'm not going to actively search for someone else. if we had a baby, I'd probably just spend the rest of my life caring and loving our child and that would be enough. knowing me I'd probably be depressed for years if my one true love died and die of grief because I'm the hopeless romantic.
This might seem cliched but i think if u really love that person. and I mean completely in love with that person, you would want them to be happy. you would want them to have found someone to spend their life with. i think that if you truly and deeply love someone that you want them to be happy. this is how i feel right now, i mean no one died but my best friend just left me for another guy. she's happy now. and deep down i am glad, because honestly i do want her to be happy. i think that is what true love is, that is learning to let go because they need to. otherwise its just selfish and true love is selfless. so i would move on but i would never forget them and they would never be far from my heart.
I can't say so for sure, but I'd probably stay single after the death of my spouse.
This is like asking if there is only one person out there in the world you could ever love, and if that's the case then I don't fancy any of our chances of finding it. Plus I'd want my spouse to be happy if I died. Not that I have one. And not that I'm planning on dying any time soon.
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If you love a person so much no one can replace that true love..two hearts are unseparable..until death..
until death do us part...but that doesn't mean you can seperate your memory from them. For some, break-ups are hard and take a while to get over, for others not so much, so take those as a precursor of how you will take it when your SPOUSE dies! Just my theory.
wow. well if that did happen (god forbid, until we're old at least), it would depend on how young i was.
if i was younger than say, 50, i wouldn't go looking for love, but if it found me i probably wouldn't turn it away.
if i was older, especially into the years when i could die too, i would just enjoy my memories of my husband.
It depends on where life would take me.