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Do you want a funeral, or a celebration of your life?

DarwinistOne 7 Mar 30
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If you don't love me, accept me, treat me with respect and allow me to be me while I am alive then don't waste your time after I'm gone.

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I want an informal wake with a great deal of drinking and laughter.

Deb57 Level 8 Mar 30, 2018
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Doesn't matter to me as long as I get my own pyramid.

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Don't care. I'll be dead. Take everybody to chilis.

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Not right now thanks.

skado Level 9 Mar 30, 2018
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I actually want a Christian funeral in a church. Unusual choice for anyone on this site, I know; however, as the deceased, I get to choose the music, and it's probably the only chance I'll ever get to realise my dream of having Crass' Reality Asylum - a song for which the band was questioned by police and nearly led to a blasphemy charge - played in a church.

Jnei Level 8 Mar 30, 2018
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Celabration of life! No reason to be sad when someone over sixty dies, they lived a good life.

BillF Level 7 Mar 30, 2018
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I want to be wrapped in a shroud and buried out back with my old mare, and the other horse, donkey, dogs and cats that are buried there. I hope there is good food, belly dancing, or whatever dancing you like, play Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult, some Irish music, and bagpipes, and people get up and say how nice I was. If no one thinks I was nice, they will agree that I was a funny, Bohemian, and unusual. Maybe a tattoo artist can come and put some ink on the revelers, if they want. Wind it all up with a pagan ritual, and spill some wine on the earth in memory of me, and to honor the ancient ones. Hopefully everyone will go home after having lots of fun, laughs and remember what a crazy old witch I was, but also remember me as a warrior who stood up for the rights of the downtrodden.

Now that's a plan. My wife of 50years died last May. Per her wishes our son & I spread half her ashes on the garden that she & I had created & the other half in the sea in Newfoundland where she was born & raised. The same would be fine for me with perhaps a small post on Facebook to let all my gardening & artist friends know that I was no longer among them....

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I told my kids to surprise me.

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I want "Pop Goes the Weasle" to be played at the end.
I can just imagine all the people staring in rapt anticipation.

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I am immortal! Until proven otherwise, after which it becomes irrelevant to me.

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I want a huge rager of a party. Hopefully I'll be able to secure the funds for my loved ones so they won't have to worry about the cost of it.

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I don't have it in writing yet, but my family knows that I want to be creamated, and the ashes placed in a pod that will eventually become a tree. No weeping, no maudlin ceremonies, just gather the family together to plant me, then have food, lots of food.

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....and a T-Shirt cannon. Definitly a T-Shirt cannon. And not lame ass advertising T-Shirts either.
Vintage concert T-Shirts , Robert Crumb T-Shirts cool shit that people would actually want.

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Whatever pleases my children.

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I won't be there so I guess it doesn't really matter to me, one way or the other....

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Just last Saturday we held my Dad's Celebration of Life. We made it very positive and themed it on the Movie Up!. We had photos and tables themed with things from his life. I was really glad we did it that way and when it is my time I want something similar not a depressing funeral.

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Let's try a wake or a celebration. Since I'm going to be cremated that should be easy to do. My ashes cam be spread or kept but it won't matter much coz I will be dead.

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No funeral for sure. If my family wants a small family memorial/celebration of life that is up to them. I want to be cremated and they can do with my ashes whatever they desire.

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No. I have already directed that there will be no service or celebration -- simply a scattering of my ashes by my 2nd wife and daughters.

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Both, I've already chosen the music but that does change from time to time, then I'd like everybody to have right royal knees up at my expense. 🙂

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Definitely a celebration of life.

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Cremation. Dump my ashes at sea.

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All of the funerals AND weddings I've been to that were touching and well done, de-emphasized religion and uplifted people. I'd want it to be a celebration.

One thing I always think is funny about serious religious people is the sadness they feel when someone passes. Wasn't that your goal all along? To make it to the "better" place?

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I think funerals and celebrations, although meant to honor the deceased, are really as much or more about those still living. If they feel like they want to do something, I hope it would be a celebration but if they don't want to do anything, it will be fine with me...I'll be dead by then. Lol

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I would like a celebration with laughter, if possible.

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