Deep Question for You

“Which is more important to you?

The quantity or the quality of the people who attend your funeral?”

“Quality. Ever seen a mob funeral?”

“quality.

I would like to have a party at my funeral. When I worked in TV, a director I worked closely with died. He had a local bowling alley rented out, food, drinks was on him.”

“Sounds like Trollarge is making some plans...”

“i'd rather not die”

“I won't care, I'll be dead.”

“Good point Windi!”

“My "important" question is why in the hell would we care about any "important" question Trollarge has?

Is it gonna fake another death?”

“I'd rather be in Philadelphia.”

“this is another problem currently going on with TT. People just can't seem to keep their disagreements in the same threads they started in.”

“my deep answer is i feel the bottom”

“I think quality is more important. Who cares about the #&%!$ next door who stole you damn monitor of the porch? I don't want them at my funeral.

Besides that...I want to be burned and my ashes should be scattered over the mountains.”

““I'd rather be in Philadelphia.”
thirdterm


.....all things being equal.

You got it, Gem.

I told my boys that they must take my ashes in little film canisters to some of the great places that I have backpacked.

"Just be sure to check which way the wind is blowing when you chuck the old man's ashes, guys."”

“I want lots of people at my funeral, I tell everyone if you don't come to my funeral I won't come to yours.”

“My wife and I have talked about what we want for a memorial service. I gets kind of weird some of the things we want and don't want. She doesn't want a preacher to do it or it to be a religious thing and no open casket. I want no open casket, no preacher and Bob Marley as background music. I think I want birch to officiate too.

I don't have many really close friends but the ones I do have are like brothers and sisters so it'd be quality for me.”

“Damn slow day for sure.”

“Death pool....................anyone?”

“My wife is gonna tick me off after I am dead, i just know it. I told her to give my body to science, then let them dispose of the remains after I have been butchered by the clumsy hands of wannabe doctors. That she shouldn't waste money on fancy coffins or expensive monuments. She says all that isn't for the dead, its for the living. I said fine, buy a nice vacation then and scatter my ashes somewhere cool.”

“A Viking Funeral is guaranteed to piss off the Corps of Engineers.”

“I am hoping for a Tibetan Sky Burial.

Quality or quantity would be irrelevant. Anyone who can respectfully not toss their cookies is welcome to attend.”

“I'm thinking "quality" on this one...

Quality being defined as family and friends.”

“Spindlette, can I attend if I can disrespectfully toss my cookies?”

“Yep ---- Sky Burial is definitely in the top tier.  Might be harder to finagle than the Viking thing.


Snake Eyes!   As I live and breathe!”

“doesn't matter as long as there are 42 of them”

““Spindlette, can I attend if I can disrespectfully toss my cookies?”
Nimblefoot

Only if you are really drunk at the time and cheer on the vultures. Or I shall haunt you mercilessly for spoiling my Big Day.

Drunken cookie tossing even my dead self will understand and forgive.”

“Same as MarkO: family and friends to scatter my ashes in places I loved. As far as who attends the service? Don't really need a service......and I doubt if I'd have control over who showed up.”

“While I have assisted people in planning their own funerals they have very little control over who shows. A service of any kind, whether religious or not is for those left behind. I get concerned when someone declares while they are still living that they do not want a funeral or memorial service of any kind. Properly done, which need not be a member of clergy, the service provides a structured opportunity to take care of some universal issues concerning death.
A good wake can be as healing as anything else for some families. I would suggest you allow the family decide whether they want/need a service rather than making the decision for them. It is their grief or lack of grief that needs to be addressed. One way or the other, the guest of honor is not an active participant.”

“Just prop me up in the corner and stick a beer in my hand.”

“I'd like for Nigal to piss on my plot as I went down in the hole.

That way, we could always be together in the afterlife. sparkle! sparkle!

I would hope that every redheaded virgin would automatically loose their said virginity and weep while said action took place and damn my name for even knowing Q.

I would like for all my homies in Compton to comply with the ritual accordingly.

I would hope that Motor City would burn yet again, while John Lee Hooker played it on top of the GM building while what's left of Whitey screamed in Terror.

I would like Red Foxx to preside over all you honkies crying over how good I looked in the casket, while Samuel L. Jackson slapped the chit outta all of you as you went by.

I would like like to make sure that BushCo would book the same trip, so I could personally deliver their sorry asses to their maker.

I going to stand on the other side and personally kick every ethical monothesic bastard/bastardesses in the ass and say "I phucking told you so, beyteech! Move on!!!".

I would hope that those who know me best, would be the ones pop a cap in all the rest.

Phuck the affirmation.

Lame chit -- Tell it to the Priest!”

“i told my spousal unit that when i die i don't care what they do because i am dead and so what i want doesn't count. they should do whatever they want. funerals should be for for the living, not the dead.”

“I'll be dead. I hope everyone I know has a party.”

“I'd like for Nigal to piss on my plot as I went down in the hole.

That way, we could always be together in the afterlife.

Awe...[tear]. You have my word that nothing will keep me from granting your wish. I shall start drinking copious amounts of water right now that I may be ready for the task. :)”

“I also want all my TT friends, OK both of them, to sing La Vie Bohme at my wake/kegger.”

“I'll be sure to drop a loaf on your grave Nigal.”

“Properly done, which need not be a member of clergy, the service provides a structured opportunity to take care of some universal issues concerning death.

My big problem with a preacher/pastor doing a service for me or my wife is that far too many times they use the opportunity to use the death as an alter call/evangelizing opportunity. I even went to a funeral where the preacher said, "For those of us who are in christ this is not good bye but see ya later.". Nothing kids want to hear at a funeral more than, "Hey kids, if ya don't follow Jesus you never get to see Mom again so turn or burn and fly or fry.".”

““I'll be sure to drop a loaf on your grave Nigal.”

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, hey from down here I can see zak's nuts!"”

“I think I want birch to officiate too.

Can I be drunk?”

“Please don't bury me down in the cold cold ground.”

“Sure you can be drunk. I'll make your pay for the service a bottle of 25 year old McCallens. :)”

“"I shall start drinking copious amounts of water right now that I may be ready for the task. :)"

Chit, I was hoping for some Pabst or something.

Oh well, I'll take what I can get in this hard economic times.”

“consider it scheduled nigal. When were you thinking?”

“I've got some time in December, birch, if you can make it happen for him then.”

“You know what, I want everyone there that I have ever known, ever! To me, the number of people who show is how many people I have meant something to. I try to live my life so that my life means something. When I was born I was crying and people were laughing, if I have lived my life well when I die, I will be laughing and people will be crying.

My kids are all completely spelled on what I want. Amazing Grace must be sung, and I'll be adding a few more songs. And if the pastor uses the time to evanglize, so much the better, I'd like everyone I love and care for to have a shot at joining me in Heaven. Why not? I love them and I want them to have what I have. I'd be really selfish not to share, wouldn't I.

I am going to be cremated, my remains are to be sprinkled at every campfire they ever have where I have already camped. Why? It's symbolic really, for my kids. Something for them to do to remember me. I've told them I will always be there, wherever they are camping I am at their side.”

“"You know what, I want everyone there that I have ever known, ever! To me, the number of people who show is how many people I have meant something to."

Guess that's a check for quantity....”

“=)”

“=) = Superficial lame ass! :)”

“you'll be there then?! =)”

“Nope, I'm not Superficial.

I'm Super Bad.

”

“universal issues concerning death

that wording was very intentional. Everyone deals in one way or another with loss. Some are really quite glad the old buggers gone. Some are horrified that anyone might be glad. Some are devastated because the person that died was a lifelinein one form or another, how ever will they go on without. Some lost a friend, some an enemy, some a dithering old fool and others the wisest person they ever knew. All in the one person who's life is being recognized. Those are the kinds of universal issues I was referring to. While I believe there is a place in a Christian burial for the pronouncement of the Gospel, I am not nearly blind enuf to believe that only Christian funerals are important to the people who a living beyond the death.”

“The gospel has even more of a place at a non-Christian burial.”