Have you planned your funeral?

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My good lady and I were in the car the other day and a song came on, my wife said she wanted it for her funeral (Like she has a choice :lol:) and it got me thinking too.

I have always said I would like a celebration of my life, as is the norm now, by having jugglers and clowns - fun filled like my outlook on life. But I got to thinking that it may be cool to have the same theme as some weddings where the bride and groom bust out into some dance moves :naughty:

Now I'm not saying I want someone to grab me out of my coffin and throw me some moves, but think it would be great if during a reading a few select people got up and did the same thing.

Is it my boredom of being off work giving my head a :bonk: or would you bust a blood vessel in shock?

Everyone knows I'm mad so to me it would be a great swan song :suspect:

Phil.
 
I couldn't give a monkeys what happens to me once I'm gone. It won't make a bit of a difference to me so whatever those attending want is fine by. If they want to do nothing at all that's fine too.
 
Beofre my dad died 12 years ago i did ask him what he would like. My mam would not accept he was going to die (asbestosis) so when he eventually did die and the funeral director came round my mam was amazed at how i just reeled off what he would have liked.

Me and the wife have spoken about it, but nothing set in stone so to speak.
 
A mate and I have promised each other that we would play 'Another One Bites the Dust' on full volume from our car after whichever funeral it is - after the family have left though!
 
Al1944 said:
A mate and I have promised each other that we would play 'Another One Bites the Dust' on full volume from our car after whichever funeral it is - after the family have left though!
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I friend of mine who died in June (65) his wife had it played while we left the church, there was a huge intake of breath as it started, a real talking point, lightened the mood xx
 
TriggerHappy said:
I couldn't give a monkeys what happens to me once I'm gone. It won't make a bit of a difference to me so whatever those attending want is fine by. If they want to do nothing at all that's fine too.
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Pretty much my view, if no one turned up not a problem. If there are any bit's of me useful to science or whatever tis fine.

Wife thinks I'm barmy. Just hope I don't linger in some bloody hospital ward full of dying people. :)
 
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My funeral, if anyone comes in black I will f****** haunt them!

As to burial arrangements then can stick me in a rowing boat, set it on fire and push it out to sea so I can be part of the organic redistribution.

And I dont want catering, I aint feeding people I never used to see or hear from before I died.

Only proviso? when I am being burnt I want them all to sing "Hitler, Has Only Got One Ball"
And the other is "Under The Sea" from bed-knobs and broomsticks.
 
Yes all planned, paid for and documented ... it takes the pressure off my family, I don't want to give them hassle at such a time.
 
I think a fake arm hanging out of the side of the coffin would go down quite well ;)

As for music, you've got to have something really odd on the way out :thumbs:
 
BarryDawsib said:
My funeral, if anyone comes in black I will f****** haunt them!

As to burial arrangements then can stick me in a rowing boat, set it on fire and push it out to sea so I can be part of the organic redistribution.

And I dont want catering, I aint feeding people I never used to see or hear from before I died.

Only proviso? when I am being burnt I want them all to sing "Hitler, Has Only Got One Ball"
And the other is "Under The Sea" from bed-knobs and broomsticks.
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Haha brilliant I'll gladly play the last post on my trumpet as your ship floats out into the sunset. That is if you go before me. :lol:
 
Being single I just don't care, funerals are for family and friends not for the dead.
 
I've always said that when I'm brought in to where ever it takes place I want to be brought in to this

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Those that know me should get the joke in this one :D but if you don't get maybe check this thread out

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=417181

Ultimately I couldn't really care less what happens when I'm gone....
 
Never really thought about it - maybe I should not that I am a responsible parent.

Mother-in-law who was never technically a M-I-L (she died before we married) always said she wanted Queen's "Who wants to live forever" played as her coffin disappeared into the crematorium bit... so she got it....

Also Sharon's Grandad was a tailgunner in Lancs for pathfinders in WWII... Will always remember his funeral at the end.. the church organist playing "Dambusters" theme...
 
gramps said:
Yes all planned, paid for and documented ... it takes the pressure off my family, I don't want to give them hassle at such a time.
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I will eventually do likewise but it is all a wee bit cut and dried, do you not think?
 
Guy I used to work with wanted "Firestarter" by The Prodigy played as his coffin disappeared behind the curtain at the crematorium.
 
I'm to be stuffed in a wicker basket and planted with a tree planted over me. No great fanfare but I do want the unabridged version of Monty Python's "Always look on the Bright Side of Life" played as I'm lowered.
 
Anyone coming to my funeral HAS to wear black, HAS to be miserable, and HAS to stand outside whilst they stick me in the ground.

Celebration my a**e. It's a funeral - be miserable!

(Can you tell I prefer the more traditional approach?!) :)
 
Too busy stressing about life to worry about my funeral
 
They can throw me in the bin for all i care.
 
There was a group of us (mainly family) that used to go raving together and after a family funeral we all decided we wanted some kind of party instead of a wake when we popped our cloggs!

I'm very much a "celebrate life" person. When my Grandad died 16 years ago we had the wake at my parents' house. Someone called me and said "Are you having a party there?" :lol: That's what it turned into and without wanting to sound cliche, Grandad would have been over the moon that we were having a drink and a good time!

I haven't got any real plans for my funeral but my wife knows I want a non-religious send off and a ****in' good party afterwards!
 
When my uncle died he left money so that everyone could have a party. He made it clear that he'd had a long life and didn't want people to be sad but celebrate and remember all the laughs we had with him. He said that there were two types of people he didn't want to see at his funeral - sad and sober. He got his wish :)

Some of us were discussing the music we'd like played at our funerals. My choice would be a medley of my favourite film themes for starters (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magniificent Seven, Where Eagles Dare, James Bond theme amongst others.) Then when the coffin is going into the oven Also sprach Zarathustra :)

This would be followed by a lovely song from Gerry Rafferty called Family Tree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLzaebMwGXQ

And as a finale either The Who with Won't Get Fooled Again or Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.
 
Some great send offs in the pipelines ;)

Glad it's not just me who is mad :D
 
I personaly have not, but I think ther is a TP member on here that might have :D
 
My only requirements are: organs to be donated and then cremated before being scattered at sea.
 
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