Funerals

I don't know how many Catholic funerals wrapped up with an argument over the deceased's estate. Either that or a close family member not sharing in your overwhelming grief. One side of my family just can't stand Irish people and half the time won't show up for the wake!

both sides of my family couldn't stand the other irish people involved, tbh

I can't believe how rude some people are...I say I miss so and so and all I hear is "he was a crazy no good bastard"...just because he didn't have piles of money to throw at everyone he is a bastard. I think they are like children and just can't deal.

How many ppl will show when y'all die?

(just wonderin from the buckie thread)

Between rushin to catch you beforehand (if possible), takin you home, wake, removal, funeral, burial jaysus i'd be hoping to hit the tonne anyway

If you go sudden you get more ime

At least half of my surviving relatives would drop by for my funeral. Anyone else showing up would be pure gravy.

my uncle died after stealing a bunch of money from my grandma after she had a stroke and could no longer keep track of her finances. i was sent a link to a video of his funeral. apparently video from all funerals at this place are publicly accessible, shot at the same camera angle. assembly line.

i want to be married in secret and buried in secret

one ceremony, two graves

I'm up home for my nans funeral tomorrow. first one Ive been to since a kid, first close one. not sure how to feel.

I know an old work colleague who is a serial funeral crasher. We call him the Grim Buffet Sweeper. Well, one of my old friends died this weekend and another old friend of mine is getting upset about the prospect of him turning up at this funeral, despite barely knowing him. I'm telling him to chill, it's just his way of dealing with his own mortality perhaps and I'm on the other side of his coin and definitely won't be showing up.

great nickname and yeah chilling is best advice

love funerals but obv we do em well over here

my mum has this disconcerting habit of taking pics of open coffins then showing them me without a trigger warning. It's definitely an Irish thing I think. I get panicky around corpses and churches tbh, but don't mind a pissup.

ah, see, no stiff, no stiff one is the rule

lol! in more ways than one tbh.

shit, I didn't intend to bring necrophilia jokes to this solemn occasion!

thought this would be a thread about a shit indie band

im declaring full disavowal of any tertiary entendre in my pun that's all on calz

Thinking about putting a Viking funeral request in my will. Can't do a real one but a cheap cremation and then floating me out into a pond and shooting flaming arrows at the urn is close enough.

My uncle had a humanist funeral with an open coffin, with him in his leather jacket + with a can of his favoured tennants super in his side pocket.

reminds me of this story last week

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46475631

Open casket is just 'here, have a side of trauma to go with your grief' imo, ime.

I was gonna post that story to “kind of lol but mostly sad” but forgot xp