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 suppose it's not that funnybut at my mum's birth mother's funeral (she'd become a nun and my mum had traced her a few years before her death) we were in the main car with her brothers, who'd had no idea about my mum until the funeral itself. At the cemetary I was last to get into the car, but the driver started moving when I was halfway in, so there I was half-hopping, half being dragged long by a funeral car full of strangers, shouting to the driver who couldn't hear me through the glass partition. Thankfully one of the occupants chapped on the glass and the driver stopped. It really broke the ice though as everyone had a laugh and got to talking about how my mum had come along - it seems her mother had told her family she'd gone to have her appendix out. The eldest brother looked my mum up and down and said with a laugh, "some appendix!"
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Jadeviper was still alive on, Fri 12 May 2006, 14:01,
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