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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Funeral for a friendMy best friend has cancer and is currently undergoing pre-treatment for a stem cell harvest/replacement. If the pre-treatment doesn't work, she has less than 6 months.
Needless to say, we've spent quite a few hours planning her funeral.
She wants everyone to cry, and at the service I get to recite W.H. Auden's Funeral Blues
She wants to go down to Wind Beneath My Wings (cheesy, yes, but she's determined to have everyone sobbing if she dies) and then "You are the sunshine of my life" as her 7 year old heads the procession out of the church.
We then get to spread her ashes over the Pacific Ocean and her parents graves.
Afterwards, we all have to get mightily pissed,
and 2 of us have been asked to help her husband raise her son.
Let's just hope it doesn't come to it.
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Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 15 May 2006, 22:34,
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