Your Funeral

[JPPT1974]

Yeah good one!! The "FUN" in funeral indeed!!

 

[bubblegirl23]

I'd like them to say:

After many, many years with MCS, she finally went. She was a tough lady to be housebound for 80 years. But Season was always determined.

She was a best-selling author and was proud of that, even though a lot of her money and prayers went to others. The love of words existed in her. People over the world will miss her.


(Now I have to be a best-seller!)

 

[JPPT1974]

I know you all mean well but don't you all find this a depressing subject talking about your deaths?

 

[boilerblues]

I'd like them to have a solmn service where the Gospel that I've tried to live is preached. I hope people will be sad that I'm gone and that they'll miss me. Even if someone dies and goes to heaven there still needs to be the opportunity to grieve and time to reflect on what has happened. Then I want them to have a praise service to thank God for His goodness and celebrate anything the Lord was able to do through me.

 

[waterbear]

Eh the funeral is for the survivors. Whatever brings them peace of mind or happiness.

 

[JPPT1974]

Eh the funeral is for the survivors. Whatever brings them peace of mind or happiness.

Eh?? Are you a Canadian?? Just wondering.

 

[reverie_maiden]

It's corny, but I can't resist:

I want them to say: "Look, he's waking up!"

*ROFL*

 

[JPPT1974]

*ROFL*

I am doing the same thing too!!

 

[reverie_maiden]

Ok, ok...I'll add my two cents in here. I almost feel obligated to being I have grown up around my aunt and uncle's funeral home all my life. I mean it creeps most people out, but by now I am used to it. I had never really thought about my funeral until I seen this thread...and heck why would I think about it because hey I am not going to be there. I would want people to say at my funeral how I touched their lives and tell humorous stories about me. I hate when people cry at a funeral, I mean it is ok to grieve but not sob where you can almost feel the person's pain. So, that is why there have to be funny stories in there...because I want people to remember the good and not the bad. There is one hymn I have always wanted sung at my funeral...O Living Bread from Heaven...but maybe that isn't such a good idea because that is a touching song and usually songs sung at funerals are hated afterwards...and I don't want anyone to hate that song. I mean at my Grandpa's funeral we sang Old Rugged Cross, and it sounded horrible when everyone sang it because everyone was sniffling and crying and we should have never attempted it...and to this day I still hate that song because of that.

 

[girlofgrace727]

I dont really care what happens, I just want to be a fun time to remember me not to grieve me really, heck I'll be in heaven for goodness sakes!! And I really want the song "glory Defined" by building 429 to be played at my funeral..its such an amazing song and is about waking up in heaven!! Listen to it if you havent..and yeah, people just telling dumb stories about me and stuff..make it as fun as possible

 

[GL2814]

What do you think would be said about you at your funeral?

What do you want people to say about you?

He loved his family. Great sense of humor. Always making people laugh. A big kid around his little cousins. Loved the Lord. Always at church, well most of the time.

 

[Sketcher]

I'm not sure, but I would like them to play the Dropkick Murphys' version of Amazing Grace. I hear that and just think of all the fun the deceased is having in Heaven.

 

[renaistre]

OK, I have just posted a silly one so far, so here's the serious version:

I pretty much want the same thing that boilerblues said, but not necessarily too solomn. It should hopefully be a mixture of happy and sad: happy that I am finally home, and sad that I am no longer with whomever I'm survived by.

 

[Spicy McHaggis]

I'm not sure, but I would like them to play the Dropkick Murphys' version of Amazing Grace. I hear that and just think of all the fun the deceased is having in Heaven.

"Good Rats" would be another good choice

 

[Tenorvoice]

Mark Lowery once said to Bill Gaither..... When you die we are going to put on your tomestone "See... I told you I was sick".


Well it made me laugh.

 

[Glaz]

Not too concerned about it. I won't have any control over it since I will be dead, so they can say what they want to say. I'm much more concerned with what God has to say about me after I die.

 

[John of Berkshire]

In the darnkness, family and friends alike stand quiet and calm around the funeral pyre where the body lays. His son, grabbing the reigns as keeper of the family steps forward and in his first act thereof tosses a burning torch upon the pyre. He steps back as the heat from the blaze begins to sting. In the dark, the glow from the fire lightens the faces of the crowd. Somewhere among them, the soft yet unmistakeable sound of quiet sobbing can be heard. However, there are no words. No one speaks. This man and the end of his life are honored by silence.

Later, the sound of the someone playing the piano echoes through the dark, empty, and silent rooms of the family home. Nobody sleeps. They lie in bed listening to music, "Moonglight Sonata", and remembering the loved one lost. Near the last note, for some, and on the last note for others, unconsciousness arrives and there is peace.

 

[God_follower]

It's irrelevent what people say, i will be in heaven... not dead. of course they will say i changed the world and owned many things and helped many people, but they will probably be sad, so i'll probably make a videotaped speech about me not being dead and other stuff. Then i will have a comedian come out and make everyone laugh then some worship at the end. then an alter call hey, i'm in control!

 

[Fatolia]

I'll be dead and in a better place, so I won't care. Just stick me in an old pine box and shove me in the dirt before the smell attracts all the cannibals.

 

[Tink]

I imagine someone will make fun of my loud and "dorky" (my word) ways. And that'll be great.

I want my celebration of life to start off with a praise and worship service. A short sermon about the only way to God being through Christ. Then time for everyone to view the body, where I will hopefully be dressed in something ridiculous. I hope no one wears black, unless that's a part of who they are ALL the time. Brightly colored flowers. I'd like for people to say that I showed them the unconditional love that God commands us to show. Ended with more praise and worship...after all, it's not about me. It's all about Jesus.