Yeah, this question is kind of morbid, but I was thinking the other day how I would like my funeral to be. I don't want it to be this big sad occasion with everyone sobbing and crying and looking at me in a coffin. I want to have a party. A lunch, where everyone gets to come and talk about me in a good sense, remembering what I did during my life and how I acted. I plan on being cremated, and I don't want prayers said over me (I'm an atheist). Instead I want poetry read that I have written, or that others have written. I'd just rather people not be sad at my funeral.
2007-02-18 00:44:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh no, I want people wailing and crying. "OH NO WHY DID SHE HAVE TO GO!!!" , throwing themselves on my casket.... Just kidding!
I plan on donating my body to science. I think the whole funeral industry in the United States is obscene. The whole concept of pickling a body, putting it in a box that costs more than all of my furniture put together, then putting that inside a concrete vault is ridiculous.
I would like to have a memorial with some of my favorite music. No prayers for me either. I would prefer it to be outside, which is where I love to be, maybe at one of my birding sites. And I would trees planted in my memory.
2007-02-18 01:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by sngcanary 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To be held at the funeral home and burial afterward.
I want an open casket with a viewing for about an hour before the service. I don't want it to be called a funeral but a going home instead. I want a few people to tell a couple of stories about me and one prayer said. I want the following songs sung. First "Amazing Grace", second one "His Eye is on the Sparrow" and the last one to be "Swing Low Sweet Chariot".
I remember when my father died when I was 8 and was not allowed to go to the wake or funeral service. I have always resented that I was not to go and say my final good bye.
I have an adult son who functions like an eight year old, so I want him to be able to know that I am not going to see him any more. Since he has no abstract concept he need to see me dead.
Since I have had a liver transplant I want my internal organs donated. So, that someone else may be able to have a chance to a longer life.
2007-02-18 09:08:48 · answer #2 · answered by Aliz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I want to be cremated and have done with it.
But if my family insists upon having a funeral, I'd like it to be a big party. Since I love practical jokes, I want the whole thing to play out like a big joke. I want my casket to be laid out in the middle of the food as a centerpiece. (You know, because there's always food at funerals.) And I want someone to put a glass of wine in my hand. I also want for whoever embalms me to put my face in a smiling expression and not that dour frown that they have on most corpses. I want all the chairs in the room to have whoopee cushions on them. Then, I would like for my coffin to be placed on the water and set on fire. Only to have it explode. (Like in that movie, "Eulogy.")
Yeah, I know that's wishful thinking. Seriously though, after I'm dead, I really don't care what they do with my body. I'll be dead! I just can't stand the thought of all the people I love standing around crying. I'd rather like to think of them laughing. Everyone's too serious about life, I'd rather them not be serious about my death.
2007-02-18 09:15:46 · answer #3 · answered by Avie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have it all planned out. First, my family members will stand around the coffin and take turns reciting the Kathisma for 24 hours. Then they will conduct the funeral service down at the Orthodox Cathedral. When they get to grave site, my Masonic brethren will perform their secret rites over the grave. And then they will play "Sweet Home Alabama" over loudspeakers as they lower me into the ground.
Too bad I'm going to miss it!
2007-02-18 08:55:19 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Theist- and I want a party. I too want to be cremated. I dont want any crying, I want people to be happy that my wordly problems are gone, no matter where I may or may not go afterwards. Maybe instead of a Eulogy, a video/picture with some awesome music of course, montage going through some high points in my life, you know happy points, my kids, my love, that kinda thing.
2007-02-18 08:51:49 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not having one. The funeral home will dispose of my ashes, and there will be a small memorial service to celebrate life, but that's all. Nobody gets to bury my remains or keep them on a shelf...yuck.
2007-02-18 09:17:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My funeral is pretty much up to other people, and I guess I don't really care. Our plan is to have what they call a "Pauper's funeral" . That is the bare minimum to get the job done.
2007-02-18 08:48:18 · answer #7 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most atheists I know have the same wish, that it be a celebration of a life. Strange that when we KNOW that its anialation for us we can be happy and joyful yet most Christian funerals are full of wailing and gnashing of teeth as their loved one goes off to eternal bliss??
2007-02-18 08:47:48 · answer #8 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian Preacher and I've told my wife when I die, have me cremated, buried or set out with the trash.
Whatever she needs to do that will give her the closure she needs.
It really doesn't matter to me as I won't be there anyway.
2007-02-18 08:49:56 · answer #9 · answered by drg5609 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, i agree with you, that i would rather people not be sad,,,,,, at same time, if they are going to be sad, i would rather have weeping and wailing then just quiet crying,,,,,,,its best to let the person whom you think will be in charge of your arrangements to know your wishes, but really none of us can be sure what will occur,,,,,,,the funeral is really for the survivors, so i think we should balance our wishes with what they are comfortable with
2007-02-18 08:49:42 · answer #10 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋