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The best thing about your own funeral will be that you won’t be there. I believe there are a bunch here that would be disappointed when they found out how few care, it’s probably better you fantasize about it while you are alive…

My first funeral was for my Daddy, I was 6 years old.

I like the idea. Always wanted to go out with a bang.

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Maternal grandfather, Jan 1961. It was cccooolllddd that day in Fremont, NE and snowing.

A great aunt, they called her an old Maid school teacher.

First for me was my maternal grandfather around 1949 - '50.

I just barely remember a little bit about it as I was only a toddler at the time but can still visualize my grandmother sobbing uncontrollably and having to be restrained from trying to climb into his casket with him.

And in other uplifting news…


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First funeral for me was my grandmother on my mom's side, 1966, I was 6 years old

My older brother when I was 5. Pretty much my first long term memories. Prob why I have a dark sense of humor.

My grandmother, in 1961. It was a typical small-church funeral, with the graveyard out back of the church. Most of my ancestral relatives are buried there.

When it's my turn to go, I want to be cremated, and my ashes installed into high-cost fireworks.

I always think of funerals of others as an opportunity to reflect and ask whether I’m living with my end in mind. Don’t care how many people show up to my funeral but I’d like to know I’m not being a selfish prick.

My first funeral was my great grandmother’s. My maternal grandfather’s mother. I was really little… 5 yo at most. She was Roman Catholic and I remember the beauty of the church and that we sat toward the back as we weren’t participating in the supper. That’s about all.

I dont know but my mom has already paid for hers in advanced and I have to do is show up with the body. Out spot is right down the road from where we hunt, maybe a turkey will swing by and gobble sometime at the cemetary.

Me too, I was 4, remember him having heart attack, them hauling him out. My grandmother died in the same spot in that old house on the same day 30 years later.

Yep.
I scrolled like two posts.

Not necessarily a deer stand, but a special place that I shared with the most loved people in my life.
It would definitely be hunting or fishing related.

Ok rewind the tape

160 user says yo bury him under his deer stand.


I might like to do but..uhhh…which one?? I have 14 set ups right now I rotate in/out of.

So….duh-f uck which one should I pick…how bout a little pinch at all…henceforth- bring a teaspoon, spread me around a little bit at each one..

There….sighhhhhhhh

Now…who da f uck o ly has one deer stand.

Never be a stand burner? What might you ask is a stand burner.

Tune in at another time to learn that. 🙀🤝🥨🍟🌮

My first was my great grandfather, he was 96.

I noticed a young man (early 20's I figured) standing on the road about 50 yards away from us standing at the gravesite, he stood there for a long time before I went and talked to him, I asked him if he knew Joe. He said "yes, he was a good friend of mine", so I asked him to come up and join us. Never will forget that. He came all the way from Ontario to Quebec to pay his respects.

What I want at my funeral is for all the women/lovers I have been with to attend my funeral, would be well over 100 of them telling each other what an idiot I was lol.

Cheers ~

Dad planned and paid ahead (almost 30 years) for his funeral.

County requires a cement vault. His chosen fiberglass casket was no longer available, replaced with Aluminum. No embalming. No use of chapel or service.

We gathered at Cemetary. I spoke a bit. Dad's retired Pastor and lifelong Dentist spoke a bit.

Total cost was just under $4K. I had to kick in $500 or $600 to cover cost increases since Dad had set it up. No big deal. My siblings kicked some back to me.

The Mother in Law........we shopped around a bit and discovered "Cremation Society of Idaho". They were wonderful people. Full service including transport of remains and a couple conferences with survivors came in just over $800.

Other local funeral homes quoted approximately $4K for the same service.

Dying, like marriage, does not have to cost a fortune.

The kids already know Momma and I wish to use the services of Idaho Cremation Society.

The only question is: What to do with the five deeds for plots in the local cemetary, which are sitting in my desk?

Donny! Stop posting that sh it!
Your out of your element!😂

Lemmy from Motorhead had his ashes put in silver "bullets" and had them sent to his closest friends.