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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Great Aunt's funeralMy great aunt died at 98, and we trooped off to Margate - one of the only places so depressing that the crematorium was cheerful by comparison. When we got there a guy who'd just got out of a previous funeral was struggling with a brand new-looking Land Rover which the gearbox had fallen out of: surely a hugely depressing day. There were only half a dozen people at the funeral, making it even more depressing, as no one from her home could get transport in.
There was one cheery point. When my dad was preparing for the funeral he decided to play some songs from a compilation called Songs That Won The War, since she was highly patriotic (though not in a racist way) and had only just seen out the 60th anniversary of VE Day. So what did they play when the coffin went through the doors of the crematorium to the furnace?
Popular song of the time Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye.
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Whillow, Fri 12 May 2006, 0:27,
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