funerals

[petal54]

what type of funeral would you have?horse drawn carriage or wheelbarrow

[shaneystar2]

My dad was wrecked from cancer .He wasn't the big cuddly bear of a man I knew and loved .I was only 24 and the first time I'd seen a dead person .
And I never ever want to see another one :(

[Sam1960]

couldn't agree more headwreck

[EDDIE51]

I saw my Dad in the coffin and it just didn't look anything like the man I knew and loved. So when my Mum passed I did not want to look, I just remember her the way she was , happy , intelligent and funny.

[shaneystar2]

Bless you headwreck .
I'm sorry for your recent loss xx

[sherrardk]

Sorry to hear/read about everyone's horrible times. I didn't go to see my gran even though everyone else did (and they then kind of wished they hadn't). But I am a coward, each to his own. Kind thoughts to all, xxx

[kia cat]

Love to go with Eddie's plan, my wife won't even think of agreeing to that!

Petal, I feel for you, I don't know exactly how you feel [no-one can]; but we were in similar circs last year. It was [and still is] very, very hard for my wife, but every day is easier/better than the one before.
I digress, cheap as poss and if there's any spare money, it goes to my charity of choice.

[Old_Geezer]

Unsure I much care. Not too much weeping & waiing, but I suspect there won't be anyway. Maybe those who knew me could get together to drink to my memory maybe. Aside from that, well, as long as it's respectful: whatever.

[owdhamer]

Barrow'

[Paul22118]

Cremate me and turn the powder into an egg timer.

[atalanta]

I hope my near ones and dear ones will put my remains in a wheelchair and smuggle me onto a cross channel ferry and shovel me over the side while nobody's looking.

[Euphemia]

Like Eddie low key - back door crematorium (ideally in a pannier on the back of a Highland pony - unlikely to do a Dettori leap) or donate to the local medical school.
I did check to find out if the School of Medicine would accept me with so many bits missing and they were happy with that.
Then I have to think of what the family would be happier with. Better hurry up!

[Kiki-frog]

Not overly bothered as hopefully I'll be dead. But I'd like to have a bit of a knees-up rather than a formal sniffig into hankies do.

Paul22118 - I quite like that idea in a rather sick sort of way. You could have the egg timer mounted into a grim reaper type figure.

[Mosaic]

The thing is, you can plan all you like but it's ultimately not up to oneself but the folk not yet dead. I aspire to cause as little upset as possible, and so while I'd prefer to be wrapped in a duvet and planted under a sapling oak tree really it'll be down to them.
A very nice man that I used to work with chose to be buried in his own back garden. Now I did find that a bit challenging.