What kind of wake/funeral do you want? Inspired by Camcolt, C.Ann and 4cruisin

[HusbandAlwaysWorking]

Poor Nancy Regan yesterday. She must have been exhausted! The funeral started on the east coast, and ended on the west coast. I felt so bad for her. They certainly seemed to be the perfect couple! How tragic... Yesterday proved that she stood by her beloved all the way!

 

[kazzie]

I want to have a non religious ceremony but have no idea how to find out how this is done or even if it's possible!

I'd better do some research while I have time

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

I was thinking of something simple and traditional.

First of all, if I die during baseball season I want my family to follow the rules of free agency. That is, don't do anything with me until 10 days after the World Series. Just stick me in the fridge and tune the television to ESPN. Once the season is over, I want home plate removed at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix then have them dig a hole. I want to be buried standing up and I want a glass window at the top of the casket where my head is so I can see the balls and strikes. And I want the umpire to sweep off the plate after every fifth pitch so my view is not obscured.

Now about the funeral. After everyone is in the chapel I want the organist to play the National Anthem just so everyone has to stand up for at least two minutes. The first kid who yells "Play Ball!" at the end I am coming back to haunt. Part way through the services I think they need a break so there should be like a Seventh Eulogy Stretch where everyone has to sing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame". At the end, bring in a relief speaker to close things out. Just before the closing prayer, the audience should do the wave from east to west. After the services are over, there should be a party where they serve peanuts, Cracker Jack and hot dogs. There should be a commemorative pin given away to the first 200 fans who come to the funeral. All the flowers and plants should be donated to the Boston Red Sox with a note that says, "sorry to hear that you still have your curse."

Jeff

 

[susy]

The cheapest thing possible. I don't want one penny more than has to be spent on me when I'm dead than is necessary. I would like my family to take some of the insurance money and go on a cruise or something.

 

[MI mom of 3]

You bring up an interesting point. I too have thought of having ashes scattered at WDW - thought it would be great - then my family would have an extra excuse to visit. If we all have thought of this - makes me wonder how many people have actually DONE this?????

Actually a number of years ago a woman I worked with at the Disney Store had her sister pass away. Her sister was cremated, the woman asked her sister's husband for some of the ashes. She took them in a ziploc and sat in front of the big Mickey made of flowers in front of the MK. While her husband pretended to take her picture, she was digging a small hole with a spoon and dropped the ashes in there.

I think it was rather sweet thing to do.

 

[LindaG4458]

DH wants to be cremated and his ashes scattered on Wildcat Mountain here in NH - we ski there in the winter and he fishes nearby in the summer.

I want to be cremated but I haven't decided where to scatter the ashes. DH says, if I go first, to choose someplace nice so he can scatter them and use my insurance money to pickup chicks.

My mother had always joked that she wanted to be in white shorts and a tight red sweater, propped up in her casket with her arm extended and finger pointing at everyone who walked into the room. She wanted Glen Miller music in the background. We did consider some of it when she passed away suddenly.

 

[bumcat]

At the service I want every one to make a speech about how great and wonderful I was so I can have a good laugh.

Seriously, a friend of ours was killed in Nov by a city bus. I went to her funeral and told my dh and kids that is where I want to be buried.
It was in the country yet close enough to a major hwy for easy access. It's a tiny little cemetery that feels country. Nothing fancy just plain and simple. The cows were mooing, dogs were barking, even a cat was running around us meowing....
There were no gates or fences. You just pulled off the side of the road and right there is the cemetery.
My kids know how cheap I am and have already told them nothing fancy and please don't dress me up since that's just not me. And no slow boohoo crying music. My MIL's funeral was so uplifting ( she planned everything). Some friends from work said that was the best funeral they had ever been to.

 

[bellacam]

I want a simple memorial service "no casket" and then I want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered over the beach by our summer house on Peaks Island, ME. It's a strait shot to Europe over the Atlantic from the back of the Island and I love the thought that I can go anywhere from there!

 

[year2late]

Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn in a silver casket
Put golden flowers over my head in a silver basket
Let the drum and bugle corp play taps while the cannons roar
And sixteen libertied employees sell souvenirs from the funeral store

I want to go simply when I go
They'll give me a simple funeral there I know
With a casket lined in fleece
And fireworks spelling out rest in peace
Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn

Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn they understand there
They have a heavenly choir and a military band there
Just put me in their care I'll find my comfort there
With sixteen planes and a last salute they'll drop across in a parachute

I want to go simply when I go
They'll give me a simple funeral there I know
With a hundred strolling strings
And topless dancers with golden wings
Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn

Oh, come, come, come, come
Come to the church in the wild wood
Kindly leave a contribution in the pale
Be as simple and as trusting as a child would
And we'll sell you the church in the dale

To find a simple resting place is my desire
To lay me down with a smiling face comes a little bit higher
My likeness cast in brass will stand in plastic grass
While hidden weights and springs tip it's hat to the mourners filing passed

I want to go simply when I go
They'll give me a simple funeral there I know
I'll lie beneath the sand
With piped in tapes of Billy Graham
Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn

Rock of ages cleft for me
Forest's lightly higher fee
Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn

Amen

 

[graygables]

I've said since I was 18 to donate my body to science and spend the $$$ saved on the funeral on a trip to WDW! That said, DH and I are seriously looking to donate our cadavers (after organ harvest) to a local medical school/teaching hospital. We've already discussed it with DDs and told them that if they want to remember us, take a trip to WDW b/c that's the Happiest Place on Earth! My parents are soooo against it, gotta be buried, in your entirety (no missing organs) for the resurrection to "work" (I guess!) so I hope we don't go before they do or it will be a family crisis!