What are the most amusing or interesting comments

[malaise]

you ever heard at a celebration of life/funeral service, wake, etc.

A friend’s son at his dad’s celebration of life last year.
Not verbatim but close . After presenting details of his dad’s life he finished with this.
Our dad loved his wife, his children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, siblings, cousins etc. he loved his profession, his farm, his country- the mountains, the beaches, the people, but what he loved more than all of them and those was a big head Ganja spliff. Indeed my children wanted to know why das chose cremation and I told them that I thought he wanted to go out smoking.
You cannot imagine the shock and the laughter in that cathedral. He ended with I and we love you dad.
Then the rev who was also laughing told the gathering that he wasn’t sure whether to read the next lesson or to pray fi dat boy (son is early 50s).
Son was speaking the truth.😀

[wendyb-NC]

1. Wow, awesome

The heart speaks in a celebration of love and life well lived.

[malaise]

4. It was fabulous

Thing is that he was a very respectable businessman/farmer so more than a few folks were shocked😀😀 he grew his own weed on said farm.

[WmChris]

2. My son

At my mother's burial service my youngest son ask me if I knew what my being the oldest of my siblings made now that both my dad and mom had passed. I'm thinking head of the family, but he informed me I was the head of generation next to go. He's a good guy but his sense of humor could use a little work from my perspective. 😏

[malaise]

3. But your son also spoke the truth

Recently I asked a friend who thinks he’s here forever if any of his parents, aunts or uncles were still alive - he’s in his late 70s. He went silent - a rare moment 😀

[WmChris]

12. For sure

He beat Joni Ernst to the punch.😉

[malaise]

13. He was way more gracious

😀

[surfered]

5. Love it. My kind of celebration of life. Laughing is always better than crying.

[debm55]

7. Thank you malaise. You had me laughing.

[Skittles]

8. well it is a sad story but....

my older brother died of alcoholism.....I flew to Illinois and later after his funeral, friends and family were commiserating about his passing, he was only 46......my severely autistic, mostly non-verbal brother piped up with, "HE WAS A DRUNK." Well I just blew up, "I'VE BEEN HERE TWO DAYS AND YOU HAVEN'T SAID ONE GODDAMN WORD AND *THAT* IS WHAT YOU COME UP WITH??? WTF!!!!" Dead silence. And then everyone just started laughing because it was so unexpected and over the top ridiculous. Really drove home the tragedy of it all.....yes indeed.

[malaise]

10. The truth can hurt

But sometimes it makes us laugh.

[surfered]

9. A friend passed a couple of years ago He was an unabashed liberal and Democratic Party activist...

...in our small town that voted 70% for Trump. He wrote his own obituary five years before his unexpected and sudden death. His wife discovered it in his papers and published it in our little beach town's weekly paper:

"Pete ______ _____ bit the dirt on March ___ ___ He had bitten it before but this time the word was, he wasn’t getting back up.

He was born in a little tar paper shack that he built himself. It would be years from that date before he learned to walk, speak, and eat with utensils. Though he would never achieve much in terms of fame and fortune, he was always proud that he had pretty hair


Called Peeto nearly from birth, he dropped the “o” and began going by Pete most of his life, and “El Tigre Blanco” by the Mexican workers he dearly loved at his favorite restaurant.

Because of his eclectic constitution, and a short attention span, he engaged in several occupations is his life. While some of them were mildly successful, most of the time he just ended up stomping the equipment into little pieces kicking them to the wind and walking away. He was at different times a carpenter, musician, waiter, insurance salesman, bureaucrat, nightclub owner and construction company guy.

There were other careers not listed because they were illegal, immoral or just don’t look good on paper.

He was loved by his dogs and some small children and hated by some of his former love interests, jealous rivals and most people with little sisters.

In lieu of spending your money on something stupid like flowers. Pete would have rather you give a dog a tennis ball or take some young kids fishing."

[malaise]

11. Fabulous

I did laugh 😀

[surfered]

14. I think that was his point. It helps to laugh🙏