Re: Why do people still get married?

On Fri, 9 May 2008 20:43:14 -0700 (PDT), Curse Of Millhaven
<millhaven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On May 9, 8:28 am, "John Dean" <john-d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Curse Of Millhaven wrote:
>> > Seems to me marriage went obsolete sometime in the last century.
>>
>> People still like to make public affirmation of their feelings for each
>> other and marriage is universally understood to do that [1].
>> Plus it is a very convenient shorthand for saying "Gimme all those
legal
>> rights and benefits without having to apply for them one at a time."
>> Plus it's the best way yet invented to say "We will have equal rights
over
>> how our children are brought up and an equal duty to sup****t them
unless one
>> of us screws up."
>>
>> In short, there are other ways of getting almost everything that
marriage
>> gives you [2], but they add up to a whole bunch of time-consuming work.
>> Marriage ticks the boxes in a  5 minute ceremony.
>> Oh, and if you plan it right, you get a ton of presents and you can
even
>> trade of four or five of the toasters for a computer.
>>
>> [1] Nothing in this posting should be construed as offering an opinion
on
>> Anna Nicole Smith
>> [2] Try getting a widow's pension when you're not married and hear
>> bureaucratic laughter in your ears
>>
>> --
>> John Dean
>> Oxford
>
>Your post makes the most sense so far.
>
>I wrote up a will and made my sister the executor. It probably won't
>even be found when I die.

.... and when I'm gone,
There'll be one child born
In this world to carry on,
to carry on.

Don't want to go by the devil.
Don't want to go by demon.
Don't want to go by Satan,
Don't want to die uneasy.
Just let me go naturally.

-- 
QueBarbara