Death

[BobhopeNohope]

Light-hearted
When I die if anyone says I "lit up a room" or any other such nonsense I'm coming back to haunt them
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You know that could very well happen if you donate your body to science 👀👀😂

There was a case here in the US a while back where an elderly woman had done it and then her family kicked up a massive stink when they found out the research she’d been part of was strapping her corpse to a chair and firing large calibre explosives at her 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

This 😂

I hate most people 😂🫣

“She would do anything for anyone.” 🤔 Makes you sound like a gormless doormat.

"She would do anything for anyone, but had appropriate boundaries about that." Sounds a bit odd? :-)

I've told my DH & DDs that if they spell "MUM" or my name in flowers I will come back and haunt them

Also a complete embargo on the phrase "It's what she would have wanted"

A post header like that is insensitive, not lighthearted.

can I suggest you report your op & ask MN to change it?

there are posters on here who have lost partners friends family & their own children this week.

I have lost someone recently and do not find this in the least offensive. I guess Tourdefrance25 won't be getting 'life and soul of the party' at their funeral. Some people.

That reminds me of Johnny Kennedy - the remarkable man with DEBRA, who was the subject of the groundbreaking Channel 4 documentary 'The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off' (although he was actually in his mid 30s when he died, his condition made him appear to be a lot younger than he was).

He made a load of very poignant decisions in preparation for what he knew would not be a long life; but one thing he was also determined about was that he wanted a Heinz Beans tin engraved on the outside of his coffin, for no other reason than to get everybody confusedly asking "What on earth is that there for?!"

I don't find it offensive either. Do people think that if they don't post the word 'death' that we won't remember or feeling the pain every day? It's a fact, it's what happened, they're dead.

I said this to my DH only the other day lol. Whenever someone dies in unpleasant circumstances they always say this! Considering I’ve never met anyone who has “lit up a room” there seems to be a lot of them about.

I want my body scattered at sea. But I don’t want cremated.

I’ve also stated that people shouldn’t wear black at my funeral. Any other colour. Than. Other than for work I despise black clothes. I’ve also pre decided my funeral songs. Let’s just say they ain’t the traditional ones and will defo get people talking 😃

At my uncle's funeral, we were told how keen he was to have "he lit up the room" included in his eulogy, because he was an electrician!

If Alice from three doors down from me turns up at my funeral I'll be fuming.

I'm (half heartedly) thinking of making a video speech to be played at my funeral. It's my bash - why shouldn't I get to say something controversial at it. 🤣
I'll definitely be back to haunt my kids if I don't get the music I want at it. Already told them that I want to go out to 'nothing you can do can help a dead man' from the finale of Kurt Weill's Rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny. A live performance of course with full orchestra, soloists and choir. There are both musicians - should be able to manage it...

Well I've got incurable cancer so I've given this far too much thought.

If anyone writes RIP I'll fucking haunt them for the rest of their days. I don't know why it makes me cringe so much, I can only assume it's to do with the fact that I read it as the word rip as a child and had no idea why you'd say rip when someone had died.

I would love for my bones to have been used as part of the decoration of Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora, Czechia. Sadly I'm 500 years too late.

In the absence of being turned into a chandelier, I actually can't get worked up about what happens to me or what my funeral is like; I won't be there to see it after all. But I'm genuinely, weirdly, hungry up on no RIP.

DH wants to go in a fancy carriage pulled by black horses with plumes. He's a pretty reserved, completely unshowy person in life (we had a tiiiiny wedding as neither of us could cope with a hundred pairs of eyes on us) and yet he wants a full on elaborate Victorian funeral!

You don't need to agree, but you also don't need to nasty.

you aren't everyone that's lost someone (and no I'm not referring to myself)

🙇🏻‍♀️great for you, but you are not everyone. Some people will find a thread titled 'Death' & for it to be 'lighthearted' upsetting, but plainly a few of you think that's perfectly acceptable. I don't.

Do you know where I could buy the collar from?

What? You want it hacked into pieces to scatter or do you mean what they call a burial at sea?

I want a full Victorian style carriage and four with black plumes and drapery and everyone in fabulous black. And a Victorian headstone with ivy and lilies carved into it.

That's what I want. What I shall probably get is a quick cremation and scattered in the local cemetery.

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I'm so sorry to hear about your cancer😭 bastard thing!
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I would hope they're only sold/given to funeral directors etc otherwise bad 'uns (like you!!) could put one in anyone then shove the body from a boat!!

Thank you