Spread my ashes into the wind, as you would dorito dust.
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At the Charbonnet Labat Glapion Funeral Home in Treme, Matthews was sitting in a chair, video game controller in hand, surrounded by his favorite snacks, and his beloved Boston Celtics on the television screen.
Dude had a good taste in snacks. Root Beer, Doritos, AND zebra cakes?
We'll party in heaven, dude
I don't even know what to rate this... That's not right.
I mean it's very touching, but I feel like it's one of those things where your parents try to do something special for you and it ends up being really awkward because it's not something you ever really wanted people to know about, if you know what I mean.
Funerals are depressing, have a fun one.
This guys family has the right idea.
When I die, roll out all the hookers and blow I haven't done for the last 10 years, and have fun.
You don't understand New Orleans culture. If you die in NO you celebrate the death of the person instead of mourning. Its more of showing what he loved to do most in the world, while people party, get drunk, and stuff their guts.
Personally i want a funeral like that rather than people moping around being sad for a dumbfuck like me.
This is like an episode of My Name Is Earl.
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Why?
eh, having been to a number of funerals, that's be creepy to me to have a human maniquin. I get what they were doing but this would creep me out.
weekend at burnie's is funny but only if you're comfortable around corpses
It is just really unsettling to see. None of the funerals for my family or friends have had any kind of viewing either, so I may be biased in that sense. But to me, the whole point of the funeral (at least in this case) is to put the person to rest. Having them dressed up with their street clothes, food, drink, and games just seems far too "active" for a dead person being put to rest. It's morbidly comical.
Yeah as much as I think this is a fun idea, there's still this offputting feeling of seeing a dead body that I just can't shake off. Nothing to do with disrespecting of someones body or anything, just the feeling of knowing it's a real persons body that I can't deal with. Probably should just stick to wax models.
omg so thats whats gonna happen to me after I die...
Every open casket funeral features a human mannequin. To make the corpse look presentable they have to dress it up and use a ton of make-up.
I think it's better to see the dead before they're buried when possible, it makes their death more real in your mind and prepares you for the fact that you'll never see them again.
as a complete stranger, i don't think it'd bother me that much being in the same room, albeit it's still a fuckin corpse that was alive quite recently just posed upright how it is
but if it was one of my close friends, it'd be a bit fucked, seeing their body like that when i was probably just interacting with them being alive not so long ago
yeah, the closer the person i imagine with it, the less i like it
I dont understand why anyone wants a sad funeral. A celebration of a life seems so much better all round
Well, people are sad at the funeral. But, yeah, funerals are for the living. The departed isn't feeling sad, for sure, so those present are gathered in their memory. Making your final memory of someone a sad one filled with regrets and tears sounds pretty awful, even if it is at least only partly under your control.
It's really, really fucking unsettling to see, IMO, I'm not gonna lie, but that's because I've been privvy to corpses pre-embalming and post-embalming and stuff, so I know the mechanisms of getting him into that state and how grisly it must have been to get him posed like that.
Honestly as a sendoff it's pretty dang sick, I just wish I wasn't such a cynic to not imagine the medical processes of that. Rest in peace, my dude.
I uh, like that 1st picture. It's from that episode?
when i die, i want my brothers to parade my corpse around like it's weekend at bernies or that one episode of csi.
Modern version of
https://youtu.be/vMiEFyTuuh8
This might look disturbing to some of you because you've been raised on the traditional thought of funerals. Which I honestly believe is victim of hallmarkization -- modern funerals are exorbitantly expensive. Anything to push away from this being the perceived norm is a good thing in my book.
Holding a wake is also more respectful, IMO.
i want my body wrapped in a bin bag and thrown in a skip on the nearest construction site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rtu1Va-dnM
There he goes, chillaxing into the afterlife.
I wouldn't mind having a funeral like that, our family funerals are pretty heavy, none of my remaining family members want a traditional one anymore, and after my uncle passed they've really started to despise our grim family grave.
Open casket funerals are even weirder to me, but I guess because they're not normal here.
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