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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Maybe it's trueThere is a story floating around the old parts of Yorkshire (is there any other kind) of a grumpy old sod who had the good grace to shuffle off this mortal coil many years ago.
The story goes that as he was such a churlish little bastard his funeral was attended by no more than two people; his solicitor and someone who knew the deceased but not well enough to dislike him like everyone else clearly had done. Apparently he had family but none of them had elected to come.
Anyhoo, after the internment on a typical wet and windy afternoon the solicitor chap suggested that the other mourner should come back to his office for the reading of the will where, under the terms of the miserable old sods will, the entire estate was to be equally divided amongst all the attendees of his funeral.
Some £4 1/2 million.
It would be nice to think it's true.
Onto a true funeral story, last year we buried my mum. Tragic event for all concerned, not least her, she was in fine health at the time.
(, Tue 16 May 2006, 18:34, Reply)
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