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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getting rid of those ashes.....My friends father died. The last time she saw him she was about 7 and he was beating up her mother. So, 20 something years later she still didn't like him much, but was the last next of kin and had to dispose of his ashes. It was when wine was cheaper in France than the UK and so she decided to go on a cross channel wine shopping trip and empty the ashes over the side in the middle of the channel. It was a windy day, though, and they all blew back over the deck and interested onlookers.
Another ashes one. Friend working for the FCO occassionally has to dsipose of foreign nationals when there's no one back in the UK, or the rellies just find it too expensive to ship back. He was driving round with a bottle of ashes in the back of the car every weekend for months, as every time he got to some scenic spot and tried to empty it out, a crowd of fascinated Chinese just appeared out of nowhere....
(, Thu 11 May 2006, 12:59, Reply)
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