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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Have you ever thought about your funeral and what it will be like? Has anyone actually planned it? After this guy's funeral, I exchanged some e-mails with a co-worker about funerals in general. She decided that she wanted to be cremated, and now wants to start shopping antique stores to find the perfect urn. She gave it some thought after the funeral, and her vision of her own funeral involves a beautiful table in the middle of a big room with the perfect urn on it. Tom Waits will be played and, once everyone has assembled, waiters will enter the room with trays of martinis. I told her that this could come off as either 1) a hip, bohemian celebration of her life, or 2) a macabre David Lynch-ian nightmare. She said she is shooting for 2. I have never given too much thought about my own funeral, due in part to my strong denial of my own mortality. But, when I do occasionally think about it, in the funeral in my mind I have died while relatively young and popular. In fact, I am probably wildly more popular in my imagined funeral than I could ever hope to be. But I have never thought too much about the details. Because, at least for now, I do not really care.
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I actually have it in my will. Music must include Green Day's "Good Riddance" and Warren Zevon's last dic in its entirety. The only reason I have giveen Mrs. Wonk my gumbo recipe is so that she will be able to prepare a big ole pot for the funeral.
Children's laughter will, in fact, be encouraged.
