To ask the worst funeral behaviour you've seen?

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I went to a funeral today.
open coffin at home.
People were filing past the coffin to pay their respects when someone decided they wanted to get to the crem in a hurry.
Cue pushing and shoving and the coffin almost fell of the stand. Saved by the mans wife!
Also random women wailing. Seriously no
Need.

Someone answering their phone to give someone directions to the church, during the service.

I will never forget the twat at my ex husband's funeral. He was his sister's boyfriend but had only been on the scene for a few months and met my ex twice. He howled louder than my children did and he made sure he was the centre of attention and talked about his deep grief. He pissed me off when my 10 year old son broke down in tears and he tried to take him off me to comfort him. He had never met him before. Turned out he was pissed as a fart. He got kicked out during the wake.

I don't think it's anybody's business to judge funeral behaviour.

Sometimes it really fucking is.

I wont ever forget the man who met my ex twice briefly howling his head off and saying how shit he feels around my children. It was a farce.

Some of these stories are just atrocious.

Surprised no one has mentioned this story:
www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/family-hit-triple-tragedy-man-9923473.amp

Church went well, crem at graveyard went well, wake at golf club.........

Mourning car, exits crem at graveyard, and instead of taking a left and heading for the wake, he nipped straight across a main road to fill up with petrol.

Made worse by the fact that he had the wrong fuel card with him and we sat on the forecourt for what felt like forever.

Stopfuckingabout
Yes she was just in her 50s

It was bizarre - I've never seen so many people in a room trying not to make eye contact. although obviously, my poor mum.

It wasn't the 'worst' behaviour, as most people thought it was really funny (except for prick BIL) but at my DFIL's funeral, DS who was aged 7 at the time and who is autistic called out to the vicar when he asked for a moment's silence; 'Is there where we sing Happy Birthday to Grand-dad?'

He thought the wake afterwards was the birthday party for Grand dad too and couldn't understand why his Granddad was missing it.

• is this where

My friends sister passed away and I went to her house for the removal. Met their brother there for the first time. Couple of days later I met him again at the actual funeral. Was on my way back from the ladies when he approached me and said "you're beautiful, can I buy you a drink" wtf not the time or the place.

My dad died suddenly in an accident. At the wake, my brother and I were speaking with a doctor who happened to be at the scene when it happened. Very emotional.

My dad's aunt came though the crowd from nowhere, pushed the doctor out of the way, stood before him and started asking me about something I'd posted on Facebook (a cute photo or something) a few weeks before. Then went on to demand where she could find my mother for a ride home, because she didn't want to trouble the people she was staying with.

I personally find open coffins bad behaviour and in poor taste - if you wish to see the person you see them in the chapel of rest, not an open coffin at a funeral where you have no choice.
I personally have seen people looking at FB on their phones in the middle of the service and taking pictures of the coffin going in the ground - really though?

At My Grandads funeral, a friend of my Brother in Laws filmed the procession into the church, (we had bagpipes, as he was Scottish) and offered to play the video during the wake, then make DVDs and share them around the family. I honestly don't know why he was there, as he had never met my Grandad!

Also. I once got the giggles at a Funeral. We were singing a hymn that meant a lot to my family, and it reminded me of the person whose funeral it was. He was a terrible singer, and I could almost hear him singing along.

I really thought for one horrible moment you were going to say someone took a selfie with the corpse.... it wouldn't surprise me... My brother turned up drunk for our mothers funeral and told the same joke over and over... and I went to a funeral for an old lady who's grandson had issues, and who said, very loudly, 'have they burned her yet'?

The coffin was to big and the hole had to be made bigger by having a small excavator wheeled in. This took around 45 mins while everyone stood under umbrellas in the drizzle of a dark February afternoon.

At my Husband's funeral his best mate who was in the fire service with him and who had just come out as a transsexual turned up in a very short skirt and 5 inch heels ( my husband only ever knew him as a man) calling herself by a female name. She refused refused to be coffin bearer at the last moment (which my husband had wanted) because in her words " I might break my nails !! " Then at the burial she was running up and down wailing and crying saying that she should have told my husband she was a transsexual and that he/she was confused about who she was. The undertaker got quite cross as I tried to comfort her, saying that my husband's mate was trying to make it all about her. ( formally him) She refused to come to the wake as apparently my kids had given her a funny look ( my kids were in bits over losing their dad and they are only young and knew this person as a man up until this day ) Then she text me while i was at the wake saying my husband was the lucky one dying of cancer because her life was hell not knowing if he wanted to live as a man or a women. I am not sure my darling man would have agreed as at least his mate had a choice he never did. That was two years ago but People still talk about how badly and selfish this person behaved at their best friends funeral. I have never see this person since and it still upsets me.

I attended my SILs funeral. We were waiting fo the hearse to arrive when SILs father arrived (he was an absent father). MIL came in the room and promptly asked him to go with her to discuss he funeral costs and if he had brought anything with him.

I could have died from the sheer shock of it.

my ds arranged our dads funeral. She has not spoken to me for some time. My kids didn't get a mention by the vicar at the service. Ds later told my daughter she had forgotten to include her and my son because she had a houseful of guests when the vicar visited to get dads details for the service. I understand it's common to forget who your family are when you have guests!

My sister hit me at my dad's wake - only asked why she'd stolen all of his money!

Oh my family has some seriously irritating grief tourists.

One has to speak at EVERY funeral.

Another will stand at the front of the crem wearing oversized sunglasses and a huge black sun hat (in fucking winter) wailing. Twice she’s ended up with the closest family members comforting HER!

Fucks me right off.

My mum' s funeral was pretty much ruined for me by the bastard priest, but I got over that and was the better woman, knowing it wasn't all about me, but about my mum.

Later at the wake my uncle (by marriage) got me up to dance with him. To give you an idea of this chap, when he and my aunt got divorced he married again and named his first daughter in that marriage, the same as his first daughter in his original marriage.

So, we're up and he's talking about my mum, what a good woman she was and how much she liked him (she didn't, she described him as a useless cunt) and I'm totally zen about the whole thing. Then he starts pressing closer to me and basically tries to get off with me, his niece, at my mother's wake. Luckily for him I was still totally zen about the whole thing and just gently took his hands off me and told him that it really wasn't the time or the place.

It was appalling behaviour, but it still makes me laugh when I think about it. He is an absolute knobber.

At the risk of this turning up in the Daily Mail....

I had to inform the Police of my DD's funeral because DS's birth mother said she was going to come. She was furious at not being invited and left out.
She had been sending me texts telling me she hoped DD would die soon and me with her.
The reason for her hatred? Her baby was removed due to her gross neglect and abuse and I agreed (at her request) to take care of him.
She objected to my DD 'getting all the attention' when she was dx with cancer and was incredibly jealous.
She kept threatening to turn up at DD's funeral, her 14 year old cousin, so we had to inform the police.
I wasn't scared of her but I would have killed her if she had and I made sure I had the means to do it.

The same person took photographs of her deceased cousin (not my DD, another one) and sent the pictures around to people in the family she didn't like. They were not 'nice' photographs. They didn't show a peaceful death.

She also tried to 'gatecrash' her GM's funeral.SHe had been barred because of the trouble she caused. She tried to use her baby in a buggy as a weapon to force her way into the wake.

No. She isn't allowed contact with DS although she feels this is very unfair.

Oh and I forgot another.

I was tasked (as an 18 year old) with arranging a funeral for a close family friend who was more like an adopted grandma. She’d made specific requests in her will so it was more just putting it all together. I’d spent every day with this lady since I was a baby and we were very close.

Estranged daughter (they hadn’t spoken in 25 years) tried to take over the funeral and was politely told to fuck off by the funeral director. She contacted the police and told them I needed to be investigated for murdering her (one of many tactics).

She was told no wreaths - so brought a massive fuck off wreath with her and left it on the coffin

She was also told no wake - so she tried to rally everyone at the funeral to go to the pub for the wake she’d arranged

She then spent months trying every underhand tactic possible to challenge the will, which had left her nothing. She wasn’t successful.

Bitch.

Oh this has reminded me of an awful memory - at a family funeral on my dh's side as we filed out of the church mil loudly shouting 'come on let's have a family photo!' She very loudly lined us up outside the Church and brightly told us to smile as other (clearly more deeply affected) bereaved family members walked past.

Some dicks who my brother was friends with as a teenager laughed at my disabled mother as she stood from her wheel chair in pain to place rose petals on my brother's coffin at his funeral during the burial ceremony.

Seriously wanted to assault the fucking losers.

My mil wanted a photo of us posed with our daughter coffin (who had been still born at 22 weeks) which we were carrying together down the asile.

I'm not sure what came over them tbh. They are a bit photo obsessed but they are kind and lovely people. I almost lost my shit and dh just gave them a very confused face and said 'I don't think so, do you?' at which point I think they realised and looked very ashamed. I think they must have just temporarily lost their sanity. Like I said, they have and are lovely, kind hearted people.

My SIL at my mother's funeral, who directed all the family members in the front row at the crematorium to sit in different places because her son was going speak (he wasn't) and needed to sit on the end of the row. I ended up not sitting where I was going to opposite my mother's coffin as it disappeared, because of SIL interfering. She knew nothing about the actual funeral arrangements, having swanned off to Greece with my DB two days before my mother's death, leaving the name of an undertaker at the hospital, which I knew nothing about. My mother had asked me to arrange her funeral (only daughter), but I could not do so because the unbelievably horrible funeral director refused to meet me or discuss anything even on the phone, saying my DB was his client. DB and his wife swanned back after a fortnight sunning themselves, two days before the (unarranged) funeral. I still get nightmares about it. It was not what it should have been for my mother.
BTW phones ringing in a funeral is unforgiveable imo!