"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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Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I already said I'm sorry for using too many words stop teasing
Funny few believe in religion but they all want to go intact into the grave / grate.
You've seen the comments, nobody, but nobody, wants to be cut up and used to chase screaming nurses down corridors.
-at my best-friends funeral, a choir sang a song of his recquest... he had been playing base-guitar comp for them, so they all knew him...
...but more to the point. my friend had canser, and cind of prepaired for the departure...
-the rest of us who don`t know when we gonna leave, think we have time for that later... at least I don`t give it much thought...
.cind of "been there, done that" guy. Strugling through life, making the best out of what I have...
matches is for lighting fires. my match, is the one who light my fire....and keeps it burning....
Burning boats going out to sea, etc.
We used to stab and garrot them and then shove them in a bog.
Not very romantic
-not so romantic eighter...
LJ, please update your instructions to your children that CS must be notified as well. If there's any afterlife you can peer down from your cloud and have a good last laugh at us as we celebrate your CS life.
Oldie, why not ask if the Veterans hospital needs your discard? They might be almost hysterical with gratitude but if not, the civilians will be
Our one was for ritual killings only. Not regular deaths.
We constructed huge tombs for our powerful dead. The others were buried as well.
Molly, that tombstone quote is Irish, by the way
Bedtime.
Possibly they also go to be completely sure the hated one is definitely gone for good? And of course the beer.
I'm told by my sister that funerals in her village in Spain turn into a street party, she's very much hoping she will die here and has money put aside for the beer and food if she does. Either they don't do that in my town or no-one has died in the past year.
It is normal to go to funerals here. They are not private events like in some countries.
Both are generally open to the public though. Although it is very rare for people who have no link to the person to turn up.
And yes, it is generally a costly meal after the burial as well now.
People are too posh for tea and sandwiches anymore, except maybe in rural places where they often use the village hall and a few local women do the catering.
“I told you I was ill”
If there really is a heaven with angels carolling
And I am there, or where the fun guys are playin'
Be prepared for some longterm counselling
Because I'll visit you late at night to tell you, just sayin'
-if I stay on this site, my rock will have "Died of boredom" carved in by bleeding fingernails...
...but offcourse, I just go to bed then.
Sleep well
...trying to wake up again...
She came, she saw, she conquered, she died.
No need for fancy writing with mine....says it all....wihout pomposity.