Putting the Fun in FuneralSome deaths come suddenly or too soon and can really hit hard, others seem to be a blessed relief. Similarly, some funerals can be deeply upsetting and sad, others can make you want to hug the world.
Mmm, don't want to bring you down or anything, but tell us your funeral stories...
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chthonic, Thu 11 May 2006, 9:31)
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.I went to a cremation and a wake last summer.
At the wake, a small group of mourners realised at the same time as the father of the lad who died, that he had no idea who they were, and they had no idea who the chap who died was.
it transpired they got lost leaving the cremotorium after the service of thier own acquaintance, and followed the wrong line of cars to the wrong wake.
it hadnt dawned on them that they knew none of the people at the wake... and the book of condolences they wrote in was for a totally different dearly departed to the one they were supposed to be seeing off.
they were asked to leave.
*edit - i have been informed since posting this missive, that - in the nicest possible way - the wakecrashers were of african extraction and, in the words of the future mrs magictorch, whos friends life was being celebrated, that "it was just unfourtunate! Nick apparently had no black friends and they did write 'to their uncle'. so they must have been related."
and quite possibly blind*
(, Fri 12 May 2006, 10:52, Reply)
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