Who's Got The Guts To Take This...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm a great believer in people havoing the funeral they want. I respect people's wish not to attend on religious grounds, but as an aetheist, I have no problem.
My wife and all my family are Catholics, so I may well get a Mass, which is fine by me - I have no preferences, and it will be of comfort for them. Likewise, I will arrange a Mass for my wife if she dies firstm, because that will be what she wants.
For me - take the bits you can re-use, and dump the rest in a skip!
Fantastic stuff shaneystar. I would class myself as secular so that funeral would do for me....played in with "i'm forever blowing bubbles" and out with Pink Floyds legendary "comfortably numb"
I went to my old bosses cremation the other day and the "priest" was giving all this religious crap and then we had to say the lords prayer....i find it very very hypocrytical as my boss was never religious.
As mentioned...take what's needed and dump me under the the strawberry patch
I agree with the other comments shaneystar. It's lovely when the funeral fits the person & their life, rather than have a hypocritical over religious service where evryone is thinking 'Well this isn't the person that they were'.
My sister works as a funeral arranger & so we talk about this a lot, but not miserably so!
She comes into contact with many people who haven't a clue what their loved ones wanted for their final send off, because they'd never discussed it or had refused to. It's a shame that people still can't talk about the one thing that's going to happen to all of us!
Humanist & 'environmentally friendly' funerals are becoming far more popular. I know what I want although I appreciate a funeral, as andy says, is for those left behind.
I'm so sorry you've lost someone close shaneystar, but I'm sure you have some lovely memories. x