Hey, funerals aren't all bad

[Ellen Forradalom]

There's flying, and lasagna, and seeing family you haven't seen in ages, and getting crocked on red Spanish wine. And we haven't even had the service yet. Tomorrow: seeing the cathedral.

[auntAgonist]

1. Funerals

really can be a coming together of families for a time of closeness and fun, yes fun. I know from having worked in the funeral business there can be some real happy times celebrating the life of one who has passed on.

enjoy the lasagna :)

:hug:
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2. Assuming that you're not the one in the urn

Just sayin'

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. If your life sucked badly enough

it might be a relief to be there.

The honoree lived a very long, happy and active life. Given the options, I'd say it were a best case scenario.

[TZ]

3. I enjoyed sitting Shiva at some Jewish funerals I went to

It was a fairly pleasant family gathering eating lots of delicious food..

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. Oh yes. The food. Very important.

:-)

[SoxFan]

6. We're irish. There will be booze.

It's all about keeping a sense of perspective.

When we buried my grandmother in 1990, we noticed a very ostentatious tomb in the cemetery. Carved flying angels, the Blessed Mother, you name it. Then we noticed the name. It was that of a notorious Mafia family in the Boston area.

We figured that if anyone would have gotten a laugh out of that, it was Nana Donovan!

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. And when it's over

there won't even be vapors left in the bottle. I love me an Irish wake. Except for the part about gazing on the departed.

[jmowreader]

8. BAAAAAD funeral joke

Ol' Gramps was lying on his deathbed. He could hear lots of people downstairs, and smell delicious food cooking.

Then came the tantalizing aroma of chocolate chip cookies. "Hey, I like those! I'll go get some!"

So he laboriously got off the bed, and started crawling, slowly and painfully, toward the stairs. He made it downstairs without too much incident and finally crawled into the kitchen. He reached the counter with the cookies on it, then slowly raised up a hand to take a few cookies. His gnarled, wizened hand touched the still-warm treats...

when, like a flash, Grandma's spatula cracked him on the knuckles. "You can't have any of those! They're for the funeral!"

[dembotoz]

9. funerals are for the living

the dead are dead.
Remember them fondly if you can.
Learn what ever lessons you can from their lives.
Let their death give you more life.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Funerals for people who have lived long and full lives aren't bad.

Sure, the family grieves the loss but the family members are mostly old enough to know that death happens and hey, the departed avoided it for a very long time. My grandmother's funeral was a family reunion -- I saw cousins I had never met before. We had so much fun talking to each other, swapping stories about her, noticing the genetic stamp in each branch of the family, etc. We all agreed that our grandmother would have been pleased that her death gave us an opportunity for that.

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. Agreed..

He lived a very rich life and had lots of friends. We should all be so blessed.

I'm meeting lots of cousins and friends of the family too. I enjoy it very much.