hunck
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Yup, i have, but i like Gareths version
OK, just checking.
Yup, i have, but i like Gareths version
Has anyone considered what they would like on a gravestone, if you have one, i thought, seeing as i spend a lot of time on different forums this would be appropriate
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Walter de la Mare wrote a few short stories which included many epitaphs, a couple I like being -Has anyone considered what they would like on a gravestone, if you have one, i thought, seeing as i spend a lot of time on different forums this would be appropriate
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When I die I want to be forgotten about ASAP. Anyone who wants to make a fuss can do so now while I'm here.
I like cider, Bounty bars and Snickers, all types of fruit, scented flowers (supermarket carnations will do) and brightly-coloured socks, in case you're wondering.
Or donations to cat rescue charities would be nice.
... The deceased also provided a nice marble bench for the ease of weary mourners. Sounds like a lovely chap!
Preserve you in a large cider container and put you on display in a Natural History Museum.
If I ever have a gravestone, it'd say 'Here lies a great worrier'.Has anyone considered what they would like on a gravestone, if you have one, i thought, seeing as i spend a lot of time on different forums this would be appropriate
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Mine would just say, "Whatever you do, DON'T REMOVE THE STAKE"If I ever have a gravestone, it'd say 'Here lies a great worrier'.
But I probably won't, because I intend to be cremated.
Mine would just say, "Whatever you do, DON'T REMOVE THE STAKE"
Mine would just say, "Whatever you do, DON'T REMOVE THE STAKE"
It’s time to put the fun back into funeral. Yes, it’s going to be the party of your life. After all, you only die once. It’s your special day. Why not make it a themed occasion? Perhaps the coffin-bearers could be dressed up as superheroes? Or maybe a MasterChef theme? Do you think Gregg Wallace might be available to take the ceremony? I was once asked by a group of mourners if they could put a snow machine on the roof of St Paul’s Cathedral, because the deceased “loved the snow”, they explained.
Funerals have become the new weddings. For just as weddings have gorged themselves on inflated self-promotion, so funerals are now doing the same. They are becoming extravagant forms of self-expression, designed to articulate our individuality.
And yet, of course, there is something very obviously odd about all of this. For self-expression and individuality are not characteristics of the dead. Funeral orations may sound more and more like a best man’s speech, with the inevitable weak jocularity. But there is nothing more incongruous than “because I’m worth it” consumerism when practised by – or even on behalf of – those who no longer exist. The funeral is not just one more occasion for us to be centre stage or party hosts, in absentia. It is precisely our permanent absence that is being acknowledged. It is non-being that gives the gathering its very point.
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Has the trend for individualised funerals gone too far?
The rise of so-called happy funerals is no laughing matter
... This is a problem in part because the happy funeral, in refusing to allow a life’s end to impact us in all its darkness, is no longer helping us through the grieving process. But also because there is a fundamental form of denial going on in a society that cannot cry or get upset or just sit with its own grief without having to distract itself with a bit of a laugh ...
Party-loving 93-year-old to attend own funeral wake in local boozer so she doesn’t miss the fun
Ethel Leather is dubbing this month's party "my golden years" and says it is the prefect chance for her family and friends to come together to celebrate her life.
Rolls-Royce worker told the Derby Telegraph : “I’m not missing out on my party. I didn’t want them to enjoy themselves without me.
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Has anyone considered what they would like on a gravestone, if you have one, i thought, seeing as i spend a lot of time on different forums this would be appropriate
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I, the under-mentioned, by this document
Do declare my true intentions, my last will, my testament.
When I turn up my toes, when I rattle my clack, when I agonise,
I want no great wet weepings, no tearing of hair, no wringing of hands,
No sighs, no lack-a-days, no woe-is-me's and none of your sad adieus.
Go, go, go and get the priest and then go get the booze, boys.
Got the playlist ready right here on this usb stick. Where do we insert it?I was talking about music for my cremation last night: Rock n Roll Heart by Lou Reed, Ein Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, Dearg Doom by Horslips and a medley of Light My Fire/Both Ends Burning/Ashes To Ashes as a finale.