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114 replies

BobhopeNohope · 11/07/2025 21:48

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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LittleMissLateForWorkAgain · 12/07/2025 20:38

My instructions are wear black (my dc and myself own plenty of black so not a problem)
Going out to Goodbye Ruby Tuesday by the Rolling Stones (singalong compulsory) and they can say I was always kind to cats which is true. I wasn't always kind to humans and I m not an angel because I m dead so don't be a hypocrite.

Btw anyone who writes anything along the lines of "with the angles now" will get haunted.
I hate spelling mistakes

Celestiel · 12/07/2025 20:50

Graveyards have restrictions on sizes and designs now - its disappointing there will be no more cemeteries like Highgate or Glasgow’s Necropolis…

My DF had Fade to Grey by Visage on entry to the church. It was almost like being in a music video from the era!

Biffsboys · 12/07/2025 21:09

MagpiePi · 12/07/2025 17:24

I’m having a direct cremation and then I want my ashes to be put in the sea off a tropical beach. Money will be set aside from my estate for my kids and their partners to take me, and they’ll need at least a couple of weeks there to have a nice holiday grieve.

And I will haunt anyone that says ‘passed’. And I will not be wearing a bra. Or shoes.

I discovered recently when my df died that shoes aren’t allowed for a cremation .
I didn’t know this …

hairbearbunches · 12/07/2025 21:35

LittleMissLateForWorkAgain · 12/07/2025 20:38

My instructions are wear black (my dc and myself own plenty of black so not a problem)
Going out to Goodbye Ruby Tuesday by the Rolling Stones (singalong compulsory) and they can say I was always kind to cats which is true. I wasn't always kind to humans and I m not an angel because I m dead so don't be a hypocrite.

Btw anyone who writes anything along the lines of "with the angles now" will get haunted.
I hate spelling mistakes

I think people only go to the angles when they've been acutely ill before they died. I could be wrong though. 🤔😂

RobertJohnsonsShoes · 12/07/2025 21:36

I’d like people to say, she hated this world and every one in it

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 12/07/2025 22:00

I’d like them not to talk about me in any kind of cliches. Be real.

CarrieMoonbeams · 13/07/2025 00:19

hairbearbunches · 12/07/2025 21:35

I think people only go to the angles when they've been acutely ill before they died. I could be wrong though. 🤔😂

Well, maybe I'm being obtuse, but I think you're right!

PoopingAllTheWay · 13/07/2025 03:00

I want guys in black suits and sunglasses to stand around my coffin, so people think i was a mafia boss or something 🤣🤣

BobhopeNohope · 13/07/2025 10:51

Onthewaytothemountains · 12/07/2025 14:57

I want a hearse led by the undertaker walking in a top hat going through town. I hardly know anyone so it will confuse everyone.
I quite like the idea of recording my own eulogy to be played back, genius idea!

With Rodney leading it
😅

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DucklingSwimmingInstructress · 13/07/2025 12:36

I'm going to be a total fucking pain in the arse. Don't much care about the details of the cremation apart from one song that was played at my adoptive mother's funeral, but I want my ashes to be poured off a particular high rock in Wales when the tide is running hard out to sea either in moonlight or high sun, with not too many people around. It's going to depend on the weather forecast, phase of the moon and the tide tables; good luck with that, if the offspring are going to fulfil my wishes.

I also want some specific possessions I loved burned. They aren't of sentimental value to anyone else, so they can come to an end with me.

Just to really be a pita.

Navigatinglife100 · 13/07/2025 12:46

My Mum said she was going to put my late FIL ashes into an egg timer as it would be the most work he'd ever done in his life!

Bit harsh I thought as he was a police officer but I guess she knew him better than me and my Dad never argued against it!

I'm happy to be cremated unless that means I lose my haunting ability. Do you think it will? I have someone I need to come back and see without them having any power over me!!

Funny story. We used to own a Bongo van and were selling it. My son liked looking out the back windows so we said we would look for a new car with similar. One day, a hearse us passed by, and he said "Mum, can we buy one of those?"

PermanentTemporary · 13/07/2025 12:47

Love all that Duckling. Keep them busy.

I’m now wondering if you can get celeb renditions of your eulogy recorded like those birthday greetings. Even better that they’re usually [cough] not the A list. I could get one done by Simon Bates or something.

TourdeFrance25 · 13/07/2025 12:49

ErlingHaalandsManBun · 12/07/2025 17:10

Well if that's the case then just don't click on the thread then surely?

The person (not me) wanted to see if they could offer any support after her recent bereavement. Upset to find such a thread, after her bereavement.

The thread title could have just been worded better, that's all that was being asked for.

ErlingHaalandsManBun · 13/07/2025 12:52

TourdeFrance25 · 13/07/2025 12:49

The person (not me) wanted to see if they could offer any support after her recent bereavement. Upset to find such a thread, after her bereavement.

The thread title could have just been worded better, that's all that was being asked for.

You make a valid point.

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