Reply to post: Re: My death

Re: My death

Several years ago one of my friends was unhappy with my plan to have no funeral ceremony - just an offline cremation after any organ donation. She said my funeral would be a chance for her to meet many other people in my life who she only knew by name.

So why a funeral (ceremony connected with the burial or cremation, etc. of the body of a dead person)? Why not a wake where the life of the dead person is celebrated? I seem to be invited to rather more of these recently than I would wish, but they can be fun as well as a time for sadness. My friend Tony had us listening to "Look on the Bright Side of Life" from the Life of Brian, and his wife and kids danced to an Irish jig, much to the consternation of his brother.

My brother-in-law is a registered celebrant, so I asked him to officiate at mine. He agreed, but insists on ten years notice ;-)

Props on the organ donation; there's not enough of this.