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What do you want your funeral to be like?
- Thread starter Spiderman
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Don't hold out on my account. Remember, I'm plotting to traumatize everyone I know. I could hardly be in a position to be offended.
You can wait if you like. I have to get some sleep. My day is well passed its expression date. What a note to end this conversation on.
Ayjaydee
Active Member
On my account. Big brother just walked in
I don't make out to be much of a giver, if I'm leaving them a used up old man's body I don't even want anymore.
That is all a funeral is really for. Maybe there is room to improve that model. Real legacies that comfort and do something more widely valuable.
Yeah, yeah, I know mystery death in the desert is all about me and maybe not thinking of how that might be taken. Ignore that. Let's move on for later discussion.
Civil smart alec comments it is then.
Later, later. We can pick this up later.
Just moderators here to guide us when we stray. Got lots of good advice too. Sometimes I even follow it. Well all the time, but I got to sound tough to maintain my street cred.
Erebus
Well-Known Member
My view is that funerals are for the benefit of the living. With that in mind, I would hope for:
1. Something that helps my loved ones in the grieving process.
2. Something cheap enough that it won't cause undue financial trouble for them.
3. For anybody who doesn't find that funerals help them to not feel that they're obligated to attend.
1. Something that helps my loved ones in the grieving process.
2. Something cheap enough that it won't cause undue financial trouble for them.
3. For anybody who doesn't find that funerals help them to not feel that they're obligated to attend.
I'd like my funeral (cremation) to go off with a bang. That's why I will be cremated in a coffin saturated with an explosive mixture.
PS TLAs, it's a joke.
Or is it?
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BSM1
What? Me worry?
You want fries with that, P?
Seriously, there was a time that I wanted my body cavity scoped out and replaced with a giant cheese ball. I'd have a varied assortment of crackers around the coffin so folks could help themselves while they commented on how 'natural' I looked. But that was then, now, after I am cremated with a small memorial service, I want a catered lunch memorial for those closest to me invited. This would include family and friends, of course, but also the people I have made music with over the last few years. I'll have a drum kit, amps, and mics set up so those that wish can jam as long as they want. I had a family member do this for her dad when he passed, and it was great. Also, it cost her about two grand less than a funeral, and the stories and memories that were shared were priceless.
Cheap.
Jeremiah Ames
Well-Known Member
I don’t particularly care what my funeral is like, just as long is it’s NON religious.
Cheap. Small. Cremation. Dispersal. I'm pre-buying it and arranging it as much as possible before this body stops working completely. Less hassle for family.
I'd like my funeral (cremation) to go off with a bang. That's why I will be cremated in a coffin saturated with an explosive mixture.
PS TLAs, it's a joke.
The opening line in a book (the crow road) by one of my favourite authors (Iain Banks) opens with the words "It was the day my grandmother exploded".
At the crematorium for grandmothers funeral. The doors burst open, the doctor bursts in shouting stop, but too late had he remembered not to remove the deceists pacemaker.
Good book
My grandfather had the right idea. After the cremation the mourners were invited to his local pub where he had left £1000 behind the bar to finance his send-off.
I wonder if anyone ever donates their body to religion?
Woberts
The Perfumed Seneschal
Where do you think the blood of Christ comes from?
Don't know.Where do you think the blood of Christ comes from?
I gots no Bible learn'n.
Terry Sampson
Well-Known Member
Smart move. Give it to the scientific folks to do what they can with it and dispose of what they don't use, ... at their expense. No fuss, no mess, no cost to kin, ... not that kin are going to take up a collection to pay for your disposal to begin with.