Your funeral? ???
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Corin Denton

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8,762 posts

291 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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O.K. totally gross or whatever you may think but as many of us have, we have been to funerals for friends and family and thought this is not how I want to be remembered singing 'The lord is my shepherd' etc so...

I have left instructions believe it or not..

They include what music to play, no hymns I'm an athiest, although a church is the best place for a funeral I have no belief and a friend of mine will mention this at the service instead people will stand for a few choice tunes such as Who - Love reign o'er me' Cure - 'Six different ways' etc and I will be lowered into the ground to Primal Scream-'Higher than the sun'

Better than having it done for you!

NiceCupOfTea

25,536 posts

274 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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That's actually a really good (if not morbid!) idea

vixpy1

42,697 posts

287 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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I'd be dead chuffed if they did that!

markmullen

15,877 posts

257 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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I have both an ex and a really close female friend (ages within 5 years of mine) who have both given me detailed instructions on what they want playing if I have to arrange their funerals. Optomistic eh?

On a similar note my family have strict instructions that if I die whilst driving they are not to erect a sickening shrine to me at the side of the road. I tend to look at that as "it was at this point of the road that Mark got it wrong".

As an aside I have yet to go to a funeral where I am not taken on one side and offered a job as a funeral director. Weird. I must wear a dark suit well or something.

Corin Denton

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291 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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los angeles said:
You're in an optimistic mood, Corin! You're assuming no madman will have reduced you and the rest fo us into a pile of ashes with the push of a single button.


Hey, you're closer to Bush than me!

SXS 

2,068 posts

263 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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How about cryogenic storage?

andygo

7,287 posts

278 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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SXS said:
How about cryogenic storage?


Thats cool.

MimiB

365 posts

255 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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I definitely want Jerusalem and Enjoy the Silence (depeche mode) at my funeral

I shouldn't be thinking about these things, but hey - you do!

jessica

6,321 posts

275 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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I dont intend to have one

A party in celebration of my life
and then they can turn me into compressed carbon,
a diamond.

to live on forever""!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scientist have now discovered that after cremationthey can compress the ashes into pure carbonand then further compress this under pressure and turn them into a diamond.

What a fantastic idea.

thebluemonkey

1,296 posts

263 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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jessica said:
a diamond.

What a fantastic idea.



Is that a black chemical diamond or a proper shiny one ?

There's enough of me to make my heirs very wealthy people.

zoe22

856 posts

266 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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Not really bothered whats gonna happen, I wont be there to enjoy it! (well I will, but you know what I mean...)

stainless_steve

6,041 posts

281 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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I've been thinking about how to arrive,some sort of "hot rod hearse"
500 bhp with a straight through exhaust,just in case i'm only asleep

GregE240

10,857 posts

290 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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Music for mine is already decided.

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.

And Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.

I'd want a celebration of my life, no long faces.

EDITED Thanks to Chim_Girl mocking the illiterate.

>> Edited by GregE240 on Sunday 30th January 22:39

riveting

4,028 posts

260 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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stainless_steve said:
I've been thinking about how to arrive,some sort of "hot rod hearse"
500 bhp with a straight through exhaust,just in case i'm only asleep


I seem to remember a top gear several years ago that had a bit about people who bought old hearses and did stuff like that to them.

Hughesie2

12,715 posts

305 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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GregE240 said:


no long faces.


OK, We'll leave the horse at home then

GregE240

10,857 posts

290 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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Very good!

chim_girl

6,268 posts

282 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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GregE240 said:
Mucis
[snigger] Funeral music is snot funny.

GregE240

10,857 posts

290 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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chim_girl said:

GregE240 said:
Mucis

[snigger] Funeral music is snot funny.
Jsut becusae Ive gto seom alchool inducd dlysecsia, theers no need ot tkae teh piss Jo !!

chim_girl

6,268 posts

282 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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GregE240 said:
no need ot tkae teh piss Jo !!



JonRB

79,335 posts

295 months

Sunday 30th January 2005
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I have made it know that I want "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead played out my funeral.