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.

I could probably write a book about this subject unfortunately.

My half sister works for certain publications lets say and she turned up at our Dad's funeral in a very very inappropriate dress, I was dying to confront her but it wasn't the time or place

A man turned up at my Mum's funeral in dirty white work clothes I dunno why he was even there we didn't know him well

I had a disabled sister who died a year ago and we had her funeral at Golders Green crem, there was a huge funeral going on in the other chapel at the same time and one of the mourners was in her underwear

Someone once took pleasure in reminding me that my Mum was cremated at the same place as Myra Hindley. I don't care wtf has that to do with anything

Still at least none of these things are a coffin side brawl, can't think of much worse for the relatives than that happening

Outbreak of row when priest refused to allow pint of beer to be placed on coffin as per family wishes.

Dgran.

Open coffin before hand, 'priest' way too cool for school then cousin's two kids spout (year 1 & 2) shit, come wandering up to all my aunts (and dm) telling them why their dhs left them, vile and racist, all words got from one uncle. Not their fault - they are kids. My dm tackles the mum of these kids and the mum goes goes ballistic. 16 years on no one talking to each other and hatred still there.

I stay out of this. The two kids involved now grown up but curiously still with same attitudes.

Old saying "weddings and funerals being out the best in people". For those unfamiliar it refers to all the arguing that goes on arranging a wedding and the fighting that can happen at a funeral, usually about who gets what out of an estate. Seems things have moved on and folk are fighting before a funeral.

Not exactly the worst behaviour, but a bit inappropriate!

At the 'wake' a friend of my dearly departed aunt, approached one my cousins to ask for some of her deceased mothers clothes! Apparently she had good taste in cardigans, they even described one of the ones they wanted!

At uncle's wake an aunt's creep of a husband grabbed me between the legs. He then denied it. My grandparents stopped speaking to me like it was my fault!
Fast forward a few yrs. I'd had a child, grandparents had got in touch (No apology though) & my father died. He specifically said the creepy husband of sister would not be welcome at his funeral (long drawn out illness). This caused upset, My fault again. But icing on the cake was apparently was me taking dd to the funeral. I checked with step mum & felt it was right for dd to say goodbye. My grandfather drove to see me, shouted at me then refused to go to his own sons funeral & blamed me again. He wouldn't allow my gran to go either. We never spoke again.

Sister and colleagues of the deceased went to the wrong funeral ( hour too early ) she didnt like to walkout so stayed until the end. It was so ridiculous she had to bury her head in her hands which people mistook for inconsolable grief from a mystery mourner and unknown female which only compounded the hysteria.

My best friend of 40 years died leaving a young family. We parked to go to the crematorium, opposite to two houses,both of the occupants came out to shout at us to move our car. Apparently we made it difficult for them to get out their drives. There was loads of room and we were parked legally. It really upset me on a horrendous day. Utter unfeeling bastards.

I nearly fell in my uncle's open casket !!
Was only 15 when my uncle died was close to him my aunt wanted us to see him I didn't my sister who was 13 at the time didn't either my aunt was pulling my sister one way and I was pulling her the other and the next thing i was face to face with my dead uncle it was horrible . To this day that's the way I remember him my sister didn't go in after all .

I have to be honest - I pmsl at some of these and mine doesn't look so bad now.

My dad's mistress (old family friend) rocked up to say goodbye to him thinking nobody knew. My then husband turfed her out.

Not so much bad behaviour but really funny. I remember my nans funeral I was about 14/15 and my db would of been 5/6.

We had done the lowering of the coffin and were just sprinkling dirt on top of the coffin when the sides of the hole started to cave in. Which when hit the coffin sounded like a knocking. All the mourners jumped back in shock and db piped up with "didn't they check she was dead first" this made all the mourners start to giggle. What people must of thought to see us all giggling round the grave.

My MIL declared loudly at her SIL's funeral that nobody understood that she'd had cancer (that hadn't been treated other then surgery) years before her SIL got it and died from it. It was as if she thought her SIL had died just to trump her.

In an awkward silence at MIL's mother's wake, we all heard the video player click into life to record Countdown.

I once heard someone use his brother's eulogy to promote his own recently published book.

My grandpa divorced my grandma and remarried, at his second wife's funeral, her son was talking about the amazing holiday when his mother had met my grandpa and their relationship had flourished. My dad and his brother realised that said holiday was when my grandparents were still together, my grandpa had always denied having an affair even though he was remarried a few months after the divorce- thankfully everyone involved knew it was not the time to start an argument about the situation but the son looked rather embarrassed when he realised what he had revealed and my grandpa was well and truly outed.

My mother went back to Ireland for her sister's husband's funeral. She arrived late at night. Her sister was waiting for her, took her to the chapel, and in the dark chapel, had the undertakers unscrew the coffin lid so that she could see him for the last time. He was a good man but she really didn't want to see him in those circumstances.

I went to a funeral and the man's mother promptly dropped dead at the graveside as her son was lowered into the ground. The son was maybe late 50's. it was terribly sad.

Dh's DM died about five years before I met him, in her mid-40s. He is still bitter that his cousin turned up wearing a Mickey Mouse tie, nearly 20 years on.

My uncle passed away two years ago and the vicar forgot my cousin's name

Not so much bad as terribly rude. Last year I went to one my my best friend's mother's funeral. After the crem service, we all lined up to express our condolences to the family. We greeted them one by one. As I came to the front of the line, my friend pushed past me, I mean literally shoved me out of the way, to greet the man behind me. I was so shocked, and so were the other people. I think it's just the shocked looks that made him realise, and he then spoke to me. I went straight home, and him and I are definitely not close any more.

When I went to view my late DH in the chapel of rest at the funeral home, the only single parking space left was a disabled space. My friend who drove me had no choice but to park there - I wasn't going to miss out on seeing my DH one last time. When we came out, me in shock and tears, a couple start screaming and swearing at us about parking in a disabled spot. They were so nasty, it made a horrible day much worse .

My story happened on the way to the funeral. We had a beautiful horse-drawn hearse and one car. We got one car up our backsides, revving and tooting at us for going too slowly and two dickheads dangerously overtaking. They were bloody lucky that they didn't cause an accident (And that we weren't in a position to get out and "Have a chat" with them).

Went to a close friends funeral. She was young and it was awful.
What was more awful was when halfway through the service, one half of her family stormed out whilst creating a huge scene and yelling at my friends Mum, as they had not been mentioned in the funeral.
They were not super close relatives. In fact, my friend hadn't seen them for much of her life.
It was awful; her poor Mum was already in pieces (understandably) and I found it so disrespectful to my friend who deserved a lovely and peaceful send off.
There literally was no need for that kind of drama and behaviour. They should have saved their outrage for outside the service and AWAY from the very close family members.

At my friend’s funeral, her abusive, self-centred stepfather staged a heart attack.

He staggered up the aisle, clutching at his chest with an agonised expression, and made a miraculous recovery once outside the church when someone suggested calling an ambulance.

It was the most contemptible sight I’ve ever witnessed

Woof
That's a disabled parking space Dispute from HELL

Oh I can only imagine I can't even say 'one day you'll laugh about it '

I am sorry for the loss of your DH

My family had a massive horrible rat right the day after my dad died . Nature does rather throw these things at us with these funeral hell rides

Honestly what is WRONG with some people ! I mean does a funeral bring out their base insticts , I guess so !

An awful wet day and the widow slipped and nearly fell into the grave as she went to sprinkle earth on the coffin.
Someone in the crowd burst out laughing.