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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Don't be cheap...Mate of my dad's is a funeral director, and when he isn't telling horror stories about why you should own a motorbike (apparantly the bodies just fall apart when they scrap them off the road), he can be quiet amusing. His latest concerns what are best described as Value Funerals.
To save money, you can get sent off in an economy coffin. While the top of the coffin looks all nice and proper, the botton is just a piece of manky plyboard (think Changing Rooms quality). It's cheap, it's sturdy, it burns, it decays. Only thing it doesn't do is hold a nail very well...
The sight of the floor ripping away and the body crash landing as it's carried from the hearse is not uncommon apparantly.
He didn't tell me what they do next, but my own imagination has them tipping it over, bundling the body in and then dragging it in, just like when a cardboard box gives way.
How very dignified.
(, Thu 11 May 2006, 12:59, Reply)
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