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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Jim would have laughedJim was a fellow student at college some years ago. Most of us were on the course as an alternative to unemployment and were "mature" but Jim was more mature than most. He was, to be honest, rather boring and old fashioned but he was a good bloke for all that and would help anyone in any way he could. We were all genuinely upset, therefore, when he died suddenly of a heart attack.
One of the pieces of music for the funeral was to be Louis Armstrong's "It's a wonderful world" and his daughter was given a tape with instructions to record onto it then rewind it ready to play at the crem. Come the hour, she handed the tape to her mum to give to the vicar. Mum looked at it as she handed it over only to notice that it hadn't been rewound to the start. The tape had been used before and had she not checked, Jim would have sailed off to the strains of "Another one bites the dust".
We would have loved it and so would Jim.
(, Thu 11 May 2006, 21:46, Reply)
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