Are you strong enough for a living funeral?

[Deleted member 1258]

Just an excuse for a piss up

 

[raleighnut]

Just an excuse for a piss up

Aye, who needs an excuse,

 

[colly]

Oh Lord no, definitely not. My funeral will be ruined by the thousands of screaming female fans that'll turn up.

Fans? Nah. They are just there to make certain.

 

[lazybloke]

Would you be strong enough for a living funeral?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/6eb7d54e-41db-4927-9e1c-def8ddacf59e

Sounds like one of those "news" stories that might turn up in the 7 days quiz. Damn, I'll have to read it now.

 

[Blue Hills]

My daughters’ mum had a very strange ideas/fantasy about her own funeral. It was all about how many people would attend and how sad they would all be and the satisfaction she gained from looking down on it all. It was very creepy.

what was your allotted role in this psychodrama?

 

[Blue Hills]

I don't want one when I'm dead, so I wouldn't waste time going to a living one

If you don't like the idea of your own funeral, and particularly some of those who might show up, you could always engage the services of this chap:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/funeral-wrecker-paid-up-10k-17388040

 

[Supersuperleeds]

If you don't like the idea of your own funeral, and particularly some of those who might show up, you could always engage the services of this chap:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/funeral-wrecker-paid-up-10k-17388040

I'm not worried about who turns up. I'm not religious, I don't believe in life after death. I'll just be dead, I'd rather the money that would be wasted on the funeral would be wasted by my kids instead doing something they want to do.

 

[Seevio]

After some consideration I have decided that I would rather be dead for some time before being incinerated as opposed to both happening simultaneously.

 

[Archie_tect]

Be an interesting conversation if you got stopped by the Police while driving to your own funeral...

"'allo sir...."

 

[mudsticks]

Only for the self obsessed.

What a load of hippe rowlocks

You mean like weddings, and suchlike??

Come and celebrate our self satisfaction at how, much we love each other, and how great we are together?

Doesn't seem much different really, it's just this is a newish idea - or rather an adaptation of an old one, so will doubtless attract disapproval from those who can't bear innovation, or anything requiring depth of feeling, or expression of difficult emotion.

I'm not sure I'd do it myself..

Just as I've never been married, for various reasons, but to dismiss the idea out of hand strikes as a bit narrow minded

All these traditions were invented by someone, at some point, to bring meaning to a life event significant to someone.. Why not this??

Imminent death is pretty significant thing to many people.

Just an excuse for a piss up

And wouldn't you rather be there???

 

[flake99please]

Be an interesting conversation if you got stopped by the Police while driving to your own funeral...

"'allo sir...."

Or driving back from your own funeral.

I have requested no form of funeral service in my will. As said earlier, I would prefer the money were spent on the family, than on my funeral.

 

[Archie_tect]

What about cremation though... they can't just leave you somewhere.

You could leave your body to science- if you offer your body to a university for research then they have to arrange for it to be disposed of at their own cost.

 

[slowmotion]

About 4% of deaths in The Netherlands are euthanasia. A friend's father who was in his eighties and suffering from cancer chose to have a party for his friends and family, and presented himself the next morning to his doctor to be put down.

I'm not sure I would have liked to be a guest at that party.

 

[Slick]

You mean like weddings, and suchlike??

Come and celebrate our self satisfaction at how, much we love each other, and how great we are together?

Doesn't seem much different really, it's just this is a newish idea - or rather an adaptation of an old one, so will doubtless attract disapproval from those who can't bear innovation, or anything requiring depth of feeling, or expression of difficult emotion.

I'm not sure I'd do it myself..

Just as I've never been married, for various reasons, but to dismiss the idea out of hand strikes as a bit narrow minded

All these traditions were invented by someone, at some point, to bring meaning to a life event significant to someone.. Why not this??

Imminent death is pretty significant thing to many people.



And wouldn't you rather be there???

It has been noted many times that you would have more fun at a Glasgow funeral than a Edinburgh wedding but I'm afraid that is where the similarities end.

 

[mudsticks]

It has been noted many times that you would have more fun at a Glasgow funeral than a Edinburgh wedding but I'm afraid that is where the similarities end.

To me the whole business of having an open casket at a wake, as some Catholics do, or the people in South East Asia who have their embalmed rellies in the house with them for years, all seems a bit odd to me, as a non religious person.

We all deal with this tricky stuff with odd rituals, and coping strategies, that might seem strange to others..

I've got my mother's ashes here from her private cremation,.no one went to that.. But she paid for a tea party for all her mates at a Hotel for after she was gone.

Her ashes get sprinkled in with newly planted trees, or just generally round about the place, so she can keep an eye on me working, and she gets recycled into strong growing trees. .

She probs also does a lot of tutting when I knock off early, or don't plough quite straight..