Funeral

tomrow sums it up, but if they play some ac/dc and drink too much whisky, all the better

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Soylent Green.

 

Pete I was under the impression your guest list is actually your social circle???

 

coooooookies !

 

You sound like a chicken McNugget.

 

What's wrong with that? I don't understand.

 

Perhaps the act of participating and following the final requests of the dead should be viewed as a useful function in the grieving process of the living, regardless of the individual religious beliefs of those involved.

 

I remember reading a while back that people in an African villiage were getting a local guy to make them coffins in the shape of things
that they had wanted, but never had the slightest chance of ever owning.I.e. planes,porsche's, roller's etc.

I thought that was a brilliant idea and I quite fancy having one done shaped like a Giraffe... I can imagine the trouble the undertakers
would have trying to get that through the doors of the church ! not to mention having to cut the roof off the hearse.
Just to top it off I would have course have to be buried.

 

In some respects, marriages and burials should be viewed as cultural events, not religious ones.

Sure, you get some religious mumbo jumbo, but is it really doing any harm? Churches (at least C of E ones) are usually nice, restful places conducive to quiet contemplation and thinking about one's place in the scheme of things (small).

I wouldn't be worried about having a funeral service in a church. It would be nicer than in a crematorium which is just a bit too factory for my liking.

Funerals are cultural events designed to give closure to the living and a wisp of succour. I don't have a problem with them. It's not a great time to tell people that the departed is just dust in the cosmos, that his or her life was of no real significance at all, and that in the grand scheme of things, if he or she hadn't been born, it wouldn't really have made any difference.

 

I think you should be working up a plan to own a giraffe. It's got to be possible. You just need to work out what you need to do.

 

I dont want there to be a dry eye at my funeral,my son is going to let off a CS cannister..............

 

i don't want them to grieve.. i want them to celebrate my life. and life in general. As it is for the living..

 

I completely understand you but grieving is a natural process. People grieve after break-ups, after their favourite tv series comes to an end. A celebration of a loved ones life can be seen as a function of grieving, in dealing with their passing.

 

100% correct Tom, and i ll do anything to cut that process short. Let there be tears in that smile when they 'll think of me.. and turn up the volume...

 

You should go out to the sound of your Pani on the rev limiter!

 

With respect,I completely understand your viewpoint but to her,if that what she wanted to move into the next phase according to her views and belief,then she really had to go down this route for herself.However, I personally wouldn't impose my views on anyone but would rather leave a good wet for all of those left.

 

I'd like to have my ashes lobbed into the sea from whatever the Royal Navy flagship is at the time, on a Sunday. Into the Solent.
Imagine how many members of the surface fleet ill piss off!

 

I'd like to be cremated then spread in the local woods. A grave is like a millstone around your family's necks. Forever having to visit or feeling guilty if they don't. People should remember me for how I was in life, not by having to stare at a lump of stone with my name carved on it. When my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer she planned her own funeral. She banned black, picked her favourite tunes to play, and made sure there was a good party afterwards! We scattered her ashes in the creek where she lived with my dad. It was very nice, and her last wish ;-)


edit: When I'm dead, they can use whatever bits of me to fix other people as well. When you're dead you don't need your organs but some less fortunate people do.

 

My Royal Marines beret and Union Jack on my coffin, RM Bugler to play the last post, and a punch-up at the wake, any other regiment will do, we aren't fussy who we fight.

Go Navy!