What do you want your funeral to be like?

[Shadow Wolf]

Dont need a monopoly

Then why act like the concept is yours to define and determine?

 

[Spiderman]

Then why act like the concept is yours to define and determine?

Not to mention he seems oblivious to the fact that if you look at the average thread, most OP's at this forum do not contain much of anything that could be arguably religious and many of the members are not religious.

But yeah, I think I have a good argument for why funeral talk is religious or certainly can be, but if he is offended by me, whatever...can't please everyone...

 

[Heyo]

I'm an organ donor. I.e. whoever gets my organs is responsible for the disposal of the remaining biohazardous waste. So, no real funeral, but if someone wants to have some ceremony:

 

[Ayjaydee]

I'll have my body donated to science.

I'd like to be remembered as ill Duce. ill as in sick. Also Spiderman, and hopefully my pet tarantulas would find a good home.

I would want to die from a venemous arachnid bite and found half decomposed flesh partially eaten by wolves and two pallbearers because there's only two handles on a garbage can and some prayer warriors praying for my soul. Closed casket (or garbage can) funny funeral. I'd also like to be hung upside down and used as target practice for a while. I'd want my corpse spit on, mutilated, and urinated on as well to share in the humiliation and desecration of Il Duce, Jesus Christ, and the many souls I venerate who died without dignity or burial whose corpses were abused.

I would eventually like a Catholic priest to celebrate mass for the repose of my soul but not have too much good said about me, for I get more prayers if it sounds like my soul is in jeaprody. I'd want lots of laughter at my funeral as well though. I'd like it to more resemble a wedding with lots of drunkards dancing, and talking with slurred speech about what a nut I was and using me as the subject of their songs.

Would want my body to be kept in a box in a monastery for 12 years like Mussolini's was and my soul would ever pray with the monks and assist at Mass. Then I'd want my bones displayed on the walls as is done at a few monasteries.

Then why act like the concept is yours to define and determine?

Because I can

 

[Stevicus]

I wonder if anyone ever donates their body to religion?

I guess it depends on which religion.

 

[Stevicus]

Smart move. Give it to the scientific folks to do what they can with it and dispose of what they don't use, ... at their expense. No fuss, no mess, no cost to kin, ... not that kin are going to take up a collection to pay for your disposal to begin with.

Exactly.

I'm an organ donor. I.e. whoever gets my organs is responsible for the disposal of the remaining biohazardous waste. So, no real funeral, but if someone wants to have some ceremony:

I worked in the funeral business for a number of years - mainly as a part-time job when I was in college. Some people really went all out, with really elaborate funeral services, while others wanted something simple - or no service at all.

But I agree with you; I wouldn't really want any big funeral - unless it's some big state funeral, attended by top officials, foreign leaders and dignitaries, with a procession down Pennsylvania Avenue and lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda prior to burial. There could even be some topline entertainment planned.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I really don’t care. My funeral isn’t for me. It’s for those left behind.

 

[Terry Sampson]

I worked in the funeral business for a number of years

Ha! Me, too. First "job" out of high school. I didn't get paid but I did get to move out of home, and into a one-bedroom apartment attached to the mortuary that I shared with another single guy. We took turns being "on duty" every other night, from about 4 pm till 8 am the next morning. The mortician got me a paying job in a paperback warehouse where I worked during the day, 5 days a week.
Ahh, the memories...

 

[Quagmire]

Smother me in A-1 sauce and drop me over a wildlife reserve.

The Earth has given me so much, I'd like to give something back.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I was thinking of a modified viking funeral with With a stripper pole on the deck for exotic dancers. I am still trying to figure out how and when they abandon ship.

 

[Terry Sampson]

I am still trying to figure out how and when they abandon ship.

Have you considered having the pole and dancer stay on shore, and you be the only one on the ship? I think that's the way it used to be done: the living stay on shore and the dead are on board.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Have you considered having the pole and dancer stay on shore, and you be the only one on the ship? I think that's the way it used to be done: the living stay on shore and the dead are on board.

Nope, the girls have to be on the boat. It would not only be less dramatic. It would not be an accurate account without them.

 

[Heyo]

There could even be some topline entertainment planned.

"I want all to laugh, I want all to dance, I want all to have fun like crazies ..."