How do you honor the dead? (Earth, funeral, cremation, pagans)

[Draka]

Originally Posted by Mike182

i have never really liked the idea of naming someone after a dead loved one, to me that would feel to much like trying to replace them, which you can never do...

I really don't view it as trying to replace someone. Then again, I'm not a fan of "jr". I like the idea of honoring someone by using part of their name. My first daughter was named "Danielle" because my father's name is Danny. Not posthumous, but still named after. If this child is a boy he will be Thomas Graham (Thomas for Tim's father and Graham for my grandfather) if a girl she will be Alexis Marie (Marie being a take on Mary...my grandmother).