Comments on Positive Boredom: My Funeral

The coffin would make for an ornate drinks cooler ...

2008-07-07T21:09:00.000+01:00

The coffin would make for an ornate drinks cooler for the time being if filled with ice! :)

LOL. Telling people you have a coffin - bad idea!M...

2008-07-07T00:44:00.000+01:00

LOL. Telling people you have a coffin - bad idea!

My grandmother actually bought one a while back. Everyone stopped vising her till she got rid of it.

Saw this . Thought of you.

2008-07-05T00:12:00.000+01:00

Saw this . Thought of you.

not seriously planning... although if I started no...

2008-07-04T23:53:00.000+01:00

not seriously planning... although if I started now I'd be able to plan out a 24 hour funeral.

That'd be brilliant, watching people walk out of a funeral.

I sorted out the food there in the post, whatever the want from the takeaway.

whats a hi-jinx?

You are far to young to be considering your funera...

2008-07-04T23:13:00.000+01:00

You are far to young to be considering your funeral, B.
Although it may help keep your university hijinx to a resonable level.
What food will you have the mourners eat?

xbox: brilliant too! A funeral with any sort of jo...

2008-07-04T19:34:00.000+01:00

xbox: brilliant too! A funeral with any sort of joke is the best thing to go out with.

tba: That cannot be true, it's absolutely glorious. His own family would remember the funeral better than they remembered him.

Quality.I attended the funeral of a man who's pass...

2008-07-04T17:31:00.000+01:00

Quality.

I attended the funeral of a man who's passion in life was amateur dramatics.

Apparently it is tradition for the deceased actor to receive his/her final standing ovation as they are being carried from the church at the end of the funeral. However, the priest said that the family had requested that this be deferred until the part of the service at the crematorium.

So, at the crematorium, as the curtains begin to close around the coffin, everybody stands and affords the deceased his final standing ovation. The curtains close fully with everybody still applauding.

Then, the curtains begin to open again. For about 2 seconds everybody is a bit confused. Then people realise he was doing the customary curtain call.

The place was in uproar. They did about 3 or 4 more curtain calls before they closed for the last time.

Talk about lifting people's spirits. It was wonderful.

I want my name to not be mentioned until the very ...

2008-07-04T17:11:00.000+01:00

I want my name to not be mentioned until the very end of the ceremony, upon which the priest is to call me by another name.

Watching the look on the graveside faces would be priceless.

Behoove surely must be the fanciest word to have b...

2008-07-04T11:51:00.000+01:00

Behoove surely must be the fanciest word to have been used anywhere near this blog.

The sad thing is, that John Cleese wont be able to get himself, instead he'll be stuck with that absolute bastard Eric Idle.

For some reason now I wanna call the baha men bahastards.

Why don't you try as Graham Chapman for you funera...

2008-07-04T11:28:00.000+01:00

Why don't you try as Graham Chapman for you funeral song -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsHk9WC7fnQ

i read this and caught myself shaking my head, thi...

2008-07-04T08:35:00.000+01:00

i read this and caught myself shaking my head, thinking "now his poor mother wouldn't like that one bit..."

i am getting old.

so old that it might behoove me to plan a little for my own.

"Instead I would like a cd of hysterical crying to...

2008-07-04T07:28:00.000+01:00

"Instead I would like a cd of hysterical crying to be played throughout... canned crying!"

Genius!