"They say such nice things about people at funerals
that it makes me sad I'm going to miss mine by just a few days" (Garrison Keillor)Ok, a lot will depend how or when you kick the bucket. Be drunk and driving the world's most famous divorcee through a tunnel in Paris and you won't get a parade. The divorcee in question, though, went overnight from being jeered at and mocked for her behaviour, to near sainthood.
Bill Cosby would have had a fantastic funeral 10 years ago, back when he was still remembered as the TV-watching world's favourite father.
Not all love the dearly departed - when the subject first rose (a while before she died) about former UK PM Margaret Thatcher being given a state funeral, the ever-bitter Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle said why spend the money, just give every Scot a spade and we'd dig down far enough to hand her over to Satan in person. (As a hybrid Tory I would have smacked him on the head with the spade and handed it back, but that's by the by)
Of course there are porkies told. Itchy said in one blog she thought she'd gone to the wrong funeral.
And the reason I thought I'd blog about it (you knew there'd be a reason eventually
) is that we describe ourselves here as we want to be seen, and if we abruptly stopped logging in forever tomorrow, leaving our profile up, that's how we'll be remembered in this funny little cyber world. If real-life friends or family read those profiles after we shuffle off this mortal coil, wonder how many would learn something about us, how many would agree, how many would think wow, who knew he / she was such a fibber ...
Okay no-one is going to rush off to re-word their profile into a eulogy. But if there's anything you'd not want forgotten (or would want taken into consideration, yer Honour) ...
ADDED after first exchange. Hey, could be interesting to see what others say when asked to sum up our lives in a positive way. Can't see that going nuclear in ANY way.
Maybe not.
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I want that. Not to have my enemies stand up at my funeral, necessarily
My only thoughts were die, get incinerated, ashes scattered, end of.
My family and friends know me pretty well, so I think if they read a few posts anonymously, they would be able to pick mine out
Think both your friends and enemies on CS would say you were never at a loss for something pithy and to the point to say
That do you?
Unless you were a Christian, most Chinese won’t have one during the funeral.
The remaining 10%? Well, let’s just say Art knows what I think of them!
Just in case Harbal drops in later..
Harbaaaaaaal
I am glad your you and Har have settled on such a classy greeting
And not stealing ours
Anyway, it’s a free site therefore I should just be happy with what they have
Wrap me up in a biodegradable cloth and that's me done
I would like my ashes to go into growing a sapling of a hardwood tree. There can never be enough trees. And I could then drop conkers on the heads of people I don't like
'I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a letter approving of it.'
- Mark Twain
I told my children and put it in my will, that if I go, just don't even let others know. Just the immediate family if they ask, but say a good prayer for me, like I did with my mother and that is it. My mother's wishes was granted. No big expense and elaborate goodbye.
I warned them, if they don't submit or grant my wishes, I will come back and let them know I am disappointed. But they said, it will be their decision. Yes, I don't see the need of having to let strangers know who I am, after I am gone.
I have lived my life as I chose to and those that were around me, friends, enemies or strangers know me who I am and that is there is to it.
I share my life now as I am living it and there is no need to be telling how good or bad I was lying there, lifeless. So I don't listen to anybody's funeral. And neither would I want anyone to be there telling me who I was.
LOOK! HE'S MOVING!
- Yogi Berra
Who is for to know and listen what I did, good or bad? or care that I am gone? No. Burn me and keep some of my ashes as they wish or not. I still have my mom's ashes and of course my dad is buried in the family plot in the Philippines.
If real-life friends or family read those profiles after we shuffle off this mortal coil, wonder how many would learn something about us, how many would agree, how many would think wow, who knew he / she was such a fibber ...
Yup, it's NOT me, it's you lot. Can't read a plain bit of English when you see it. I don't know.
So I did a bit of CS research, out of mild interest. I started, of course, with Simmo, :sadflower: but his profile has captioned pictures rather than a self-description. They are apt and nicely worded.
Then I went back to about 2012 to look at blogs and find profiles that were still live, but not active. BTW a surprising amount of people who blogged regularly back then? They still log in, some very recently, but they stay silent. Anyway, definitely still among us.
The next comment is a scratch-together of the few profile biographies that have been quiet for at least 3 years that I found - the self-eulogies.
Sorry. Wrong blog.
...anyway, after exposing oure self here, we will probably all live forever... in cyberland...
Why not throw in Non je ne regrette rien for the Frenchies as well. Make them feel more at home.
You have me confused
Non non regret rien, that's a good one for me.