ARE FUNERALS FREAKY?

[Duchess]

I don't want to deal with a dead person in any way, shape, or form. I just don't. I don't want that to be my final memory of the person and it would be.

[Maggot]

I think funerals are kinda freaky by nature in the culture of our country.

For me, cremation and a short 'celebration of life' memorial is preferable.

But, I go to open-casket funerals and pay my respects to the family when that's what works for them.

Back in the day when I was working in the funeral home, the average wake was 3 days long, some even longer.
(Thus, on the second, third or fourth day "dusting" off the coffins was required)

I never knew they used caskets during the Civil war. Ya learn something new everyday here.

[Carsman]

Weirdest funeral I ever went to was an 18 year old girl who overdosed on drugs. She was the daughter of a friend of my dad and I knew her since she was a little kid. She had naturally straight jet black hair and it the coffin her hair was platinum blonde and appeared to be permed. The mother kept fixing her hair and telling her two sons to stop hugging her because they were messing it up.

One of the saddest funeral wakes I went to was that of a woman who worked for me.

The wake was for her "22" year old son, who she worked so hard for several years to get him off drugs . The Drugs won.

When I walked in the funeral home, she walked up and greeted me at the door, I offered her my deepest condolences.

So then she says, you never met my son, come and meet him, we walked down the room to him in his casket.

This is my handsome son Mike she said, (he was so unbelievably handsome he could have been a male model) the way

she introduced me to him like he was alive just got to me and I choked up. So very very sad, fucking drugs!

[sally]

Weirdest funeral I ever went to was an 18 year old girl who overdosed on drugs. She was the daughter of a friend of my dad and I knew her since she was a little kid. She had naturally straight jet black hair and it the coffin her hair was platinum blonde and appeared to be permed. The mother kept fixing her hair and telling her two sons to stop hugging her because they were messing it up.

One of the saddest funeral wakes I went to was that of a woman who worked for me.

The wake was for her "22" year old son, who she worked so hard for several years to get him off drugs . The Drugs won.

When I walked in the funeral home, she walked up and greeted me at the door, I offered her my deepest condolences.

So then she says, you never met my son, come and meet him, we walked down the room to him in his casket.

This is my handsome son Mike she said, (he was so unbelievably handsome he could have been a male model) the way

she introduced me to him like he was alive just got to me and I choked up. So very very sad, fucking drugs!

I'm not one to cry too much, but that would have gotten to me too. My dad died of a drug overdose, he was 47. As upset as I was about it, when we were at his funeral I heard my grandma who was going senile whisper to my grandpa that he looks better now than when he was alive. I started laughing and people probably thought I was an asshole laughing at my own father's funeral. He had long hair and a long gray beard and my grandma hated it. I guess they trimmed it up a bit, and for some reason it struck me as so funny. Laughing between crying is always good I guess.

[Duchess]

John Lewis funeral is on in the background. I haven't really been paying attention to it, but I just heard the singing and my immediate thought was that black funerals seem so much more joyful than white funerals, maybe joyful isn't the proper word *cringe*. I guess it seems more of a celebration to me, even the word celebration seems a little cringey to me. I should probably stop digging this hole I'm finding myself in.

[Maggot]

I thought he floated up into a cloud by now.

[Duchess]

I thought he floated up into a cloud by now.

That made me think of Mrs. Bush's death. A cartoon was posted and it depicted Mrs. Bush arriving in the clouds at the Pearly Gates and her dead little girl rushing to greet her. It was a very moving cartoon.

[MirahM]

John Lewis funeral is on in the background. I haven't really been paying attention to it, but I just heard the singing and my immediate thought was that black funerals seem so much more joyful than white funerals, maybe joyful isn't the proper word *cringe*. I guess it seems more of a celebration to me, even the word celebration seems a little cringey to me. I should probably stop digging this hole I'm finding myself in.

They are happy and confident he is in heaven, so it is joyful for them.

[Clang McFly]

John Lewis funeral is on in the background. I haven't really been paying attention to it, but I just heard the singing and my immediate thought was that black funerals seem so much more joyful than white funerals, maybe joyful isn't the proper word *cringe*. I guess it seems more of a celebration to me, even the word celebration seems a little cringey to me. I should probably stop digging this hole I'm finding myself in.

This is the kind of funeral I want:
https://youtu.be/3oO3tUVLpIM

[Duchess]

Ask and you shall receive.

[Maggot]

Make is so number one.

[MirahM]

I almost started a "How do you want your funeral/eulogy to be?" thread.

[MirahM]

John Lewis funeral is on in the background. I haven't really been paying attention to it, but I just heard the singing and my immediate thought was that black funerals seem so much more joyful than white funerals, maybe joyful isn't the proper word *cringe*. I guess it seems more of a celebration to me, even the word celebration seems a little cringey to me. I should probably stop digging this hole I'm finding myself in.

This is the kind of funeral I want:
https://youtu.be/3oO3tUVLpIM

I must watch this episode now. That was funny.

[Clang McFly]

John Lewis funeral is on in the background. I haven't really been paying attention to it, but I just heard the singing and my immediate thought was that black funerals seem so much more joyful than white funerals, maybe joyful isn't the proper word *cringe*. I guess it seems more of a celebration to me, even the word celebration seems a little cringey to me. I should probably stop digging this hole I'm finding myself in.

This is the kind of funeral I want:
https://youtu.be/3oO3tUVLpIM

I must watch this episode now. That was funny.

Yeah, it reminded me of New Orleans/Mardi Gras funerals I've read about.