Being Popular At Your Funeral

[fruitsalad]

I'm not sure if its just me, thinks this way, but does it really matter how many people come to your funeral, the deceased is not going to know a lot about how many people are there.

[NoMercy]

I'll let you know whether I'm pleased or displeased when they plant me.

[hc4361]

It can be a big comfort to the family to see how well thought of their loved one was.

[albaqwerty]

Neighbour's hearse trundled by on Monday, followed by grieving widow and his daughter and that was it.

[jno]

It may be a reflection of how well liked you were (or not), but funerals are held for and by the survivors, a rite of passage for them, not for the deceased.

[Sqad]

Ah!.....good point.
It really rest on the requirements of those next of kin.....do they want a full church.
Me? I couldn't care less, being that type of individual, but there are types (exhibited on AB for example) who would require a full house, beating of chests, wailing and reminding ALL what an asset he/she was in life.............

[douglas9401]

Be too excited at being returned to the cosmos for recycling to bother.
I wonder if my essence will be able to time travel or am I doomed to return when mankind has made an even bigger pigs ear of the place.

[jno]

That's me, Sqad! Shall I save you a place at mine?

[NoMercy]

Very true, Sqad. BTW, one of your posts yesterday made me choke with laughter. If I choke to death next time, I expect you to at least be at my funeral beating your chest and wailing :-)

[Berniecuddles2]

Cant believe the price of a funeral these days scandalous!
Told mrs c when its my time far as I'm concerned stick me in bin liners bury me in the garden ( and I'm not joking either)not got a religious bone in me I don't want some poncy vicar standing there telling whoever about my life ...not for me!

[Sqad]

NoM...there would be instant mouth to mouth............even continuing post mortem....;-)
jno.........save me a place.

[albaqwerty]

sqad, when your time comes, and it won't be for many, many years, there will be loads of ab'ers there to monitor the situation xx

[mccfluff]

I want to be burnt and binned, no funeral, that stuff leaves me cold, I don't give a toss what other people think about it and their rite of passage :-D

[melv16]

Sqad. I think you got asset and ass-hole mixed up:-)

[Sqad]

alba...LOL.....LOL......don't forget the Ibuprofen........;-)

[albaqwerty]

Cuddlyone, there's a cemmy over the wall at my back garden :-D

[albaqwerty]

was it Spike Milligan who had inscribed on his grave-stone

'see, I told you I wasn't feeling well'

[Berniecuddles2]

Albs my last wish will be not being buried near any religious grounds ie:cemetery or crematorium in the garden or put the Ashes wherever mrs c wants

[fruitsalad]

I'm not a very sociable person while alive so cant see it bothering me once I'm gone, I just wondered others thoughts on the subject.

[hc4361]

Bernie, a plastic bag is not environmentally friendly. A cotton winding sheet would be much better :)

[albaqwerty]

fruit, we're all deadly serious as you can see.

I couldn't give a figs who came or didn't, If anyone wants to make sure I'm gone, then that's fine.