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Funeral plans & other uplifting things

Here’s one he prepared earlier! Ta da’h.
Working from home can be a hard gig. There’s the managing of your own schedule, planning, discipline required. But there is one thing that is harder to manage than almost anything. The insurance infomercial type ads. I am constantly torn between purchasing and punching the tv in the face. Insurance is, after all, the responsible adult thing to do.

And it gets me thinking. What does someone planning for their own funeral do. How do you go about approaching that. Is it wish list style. Like, for me. I’d want people to celebrate my life but a suitable amount of tears are absolutely necessary. I’d want people dressed to the nines. Ladies in hats and men in suits. People with jeans would be tackled on entry and tossed out.

Also, I heard on the news you should leave your facebook and online passwords in your will. Well, since I haven’t updated my will in about 5 years, I figure I’ll just tell you lot. Someone please tell my Hubby that the Internet/social media passwords are behind the painting {taps nose so he knows which one!}, please give my borther and sister some of my super cash and that if anyone wants to play my heart will go on at my funeral he MUST resist. That’s a no way buddy…

Errr. I just got awkward about this post. You know? Like this might be a total jinx or something. Best I go buy some insurance or something.  

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9 responses to “Funeral plans & other uplifting things”

  1. Danielle Avatar
    Danielle

    I just read the title on facebook and I was like wtf has she gone and done now.I will make sure that kelvin does not play my heart will go on at your funeral and I promise not to wear my jeans but I will not wear black. OkI want to be cremated.I want Luigi to take half of my ashes to the picnic bench down at mosman beach (sydney) where we had our first date in the city and decided to move in together. I want my girlfriends to take the other half up Katherine Gorgre in a canoe and scatter them at the top.Why? a) because I'm mean b)because we always had so much fun and c) because we never made it pass the third gorge. {there is 8}I want to throw a party to celebrate my life. I want people to wear colour.ANDI don't want people to cry.I want people to remember the good times I want to buried in my jeans. Most definitley my jeans.

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  2. Sheri Bomb Avatar
    Sheri Bomb

    I want to visit your house just so I can try and figure out which painting you're talking about. Not because I want to steal your passwords, I would just like the satisfaction of knowing I am a good detective.I've considered whoopee cushions hidden under the little pillows on the pews for my funeral…just to get everyone laughing, ya know? Cos I mean really, no matter how old you get…who can resist a fart joke? :P

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  3. Brittonie W Avatar
    Brittonie W

    If I had my passwords hidden behind a painting, it would be continiously moved because I forget my passwords all the time!My funeral is a chance for the people that love me to do all the crying they need. The wake is MINE! I want cocktails, lots of yummy food, and a dessert table, because dessert always helps everything.I want to be cremated, there is no way I want to go in the ground! But please everyone make sure i'm completly dead first. I'm still haunted by that stupid James Bond movie and that stupid scene.And I want everyone to send me a goodbye message to my phone, and have James and my best friend sit by my pot and read them to me.

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  4. EleCat Avatar
    EleCat

    Yeh, ummmm….. insurance. I won't think about that one but I have discussed with my hubby some of my wishes. 1. Let them chop me up and donate anything that may save someones life and if it can't save someones life then let it be used for research…. 2. Bury me in a cardboard box and plant a tree on top of me. It's the latest thing. I used to say to cremate me but I've read that it's bad for the environment….. let your body naturally decompose. 3. NO religious references at my funeral! 4. NO open coffin.5. Play my heart will go on….. lol. (That way if they don't cry for me they'll at least cry because of the song.)

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  5. EleCat Avatar
    EleCat

    P.S. Might steal Sheri's whoopee cushion idea! :)

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  6. River Avatar
    River

    I like EleCat's idea of donation and research. I've already made application to the medical university in my city to take my body and use it for students to study and learn from. When they've finished, however long that takes, (they can store and use bodies or parts of for years), they take care of disposing of what's left, usually by cremation. So, no funeral for me. I know my family will be sad, but I don't want black clothes and maudlin mourning when I go. Remember the good, forget the bad, plant a tree for me. Then get on with your life.

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  7. MultipleMum Avatar
    MultipleMum

    I hate organising/even management. My funeral is one function I have no intention of organising. Someone else's gig :-)

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  8. Jeannee Avatar
    Jeannee

    THis is actually a very good and adult thing to think about! My father went to a funeral parlor and preplanned, and prepaid, for his own funeral, after he witnessed the hell he and I went through when my mother died and having to start from scratch. THe additional things I wanted (i.e. special Mass cards, limo, an obit in a paper you had to pay for it so I knew it would be more accurate than the free one, which was $1 a word = $800) I paid extra for at that time but at least his wishes were already set in place.

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  9. Mrs Woog Avatar
    Mrs Woog

    I am planning a luau for my funeral.

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