my sister had huge pictures of her husband up on a screen. I don’t want that for me. Just someone play “Spirit in The Sky” and no flowers!!! what a waste.
He loved his family
He loved women.....boy did he ever...all of them
He loved traveling the world and America
He loved America and more than anything being from the South which he considered a blessing
And he loved freedom and he knew more than most what that meant
He believed Christianity made the most sense because what other religion ever had their God love his creations enough to come to earth to live and die as we do....in fact even harder than we do usually..to prove to us he can do it too so cowboy up and make the most of it
Now the deceased is in Gods hands
And you all have to do now is suffer through 4 or 5 of his favorites songs and you can go to his house and eat and drink and shoot guns and ride horses
I’d have more said about my five children as well but that’s a decent outline on the come
Hopefully because of all my kids and their kids there will be a lot of pretty girls
Maybe even some boo hooing
Perfect exit.
I had a best friend die in a plane crash in 1982 at age 25
All his half dozen ex paramours were lined up squalling together at his graveside service
That image has always stuck with me
Pretty Maids All in a Row
8. Doesn't he look natural?
At my funeral, I want someone to take the flower arrangement of my casket and throw it into the crowd to see who is next.
Chad, you are actually pretty damned self absorbed.
Your funeral as all funerals is about the PERCEPTION
others have of you so don’t tell others what to say
and think about you. Looks to me like what you want
is for people to skip your funeral and go straight to
Sunday church services. So be it.
At 64 I have thought about this and just about come to the decision of no funeral. I have thought about donating my body to one of the Body Farms for Forensic Study.
I have no desire to be embalmed and put in a coffin to be buried.
Having been to enough funerals there is a certain amount of Hypocrisy involved and the things that may be said at a eulogy are really farfetched and off the mark. All it does it make the family feel better.
Then there is the absurd cost of funerals. What a waste of money. My father died almost three years ago and his was about $12,000. I wanted to opt out of the Vault they want you to buy, $1000. But my sister insisted. The whole process makes me cynical.
My choice would be a nice reception and let it go at that.
“A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.”
One hears such awful schmaltz at funerals.