funerals

[splange]

Has anybody ever experienced a funeral that was funny for all the wrong reasons?

[callisto]

hi dont know if this question should be funny or serious... what gets me is the choice of music at funerals i mean i went to one and it was a cremation and they played" give me oil in my lamp keep me burning..", i mean you couldreally have some fun with this couldnt you ....how about " bring me sunshine ",  countdown theme ,  sorry get a little carried away....X  

[Clanad]

A recent funeral was conducted at the Funeral Home, which was obviously named for the proprietor unfortunately, but humorously, his name was Cease, and was prominently displayed...(and the Brits think we don't appreciate irony)

[Chillum]

A friend of my wife's family, a vicar, was conducting a funeral. All was going to plan, when he suddenly, and dramatically dropped to his knees, before regaining his stance and carrying on with the internment. When the father-in-law asked him why he'd done the drop-to-the-knees bit, he told him that he'd forgotten the deceased's name, and in an inspired moment, droppped down so he could try to read the name-plate on the already lowered coffin.

[Englishbird]

The vicar at my great grandmothers funeral spent the entire service calling my great uncle (her son) godfrey ... his name is Derek. 

At my boyfriends mothers funeral, her mother (who is 99 and a bit loopy) said at the top of her voice, which echoed round the church " Are we inside or outside" to which she was informed that we were indeed inside so she said "why is it so bloody cold then".  Fair comment.  She then proceeded to interupt the vicar another 3 times through the service by asking when we were going to get lunch :o)  It was a welcome distraction.

[woofgang]

I was in a funeral car once with a lady who said that she had travelled all day and was hungry and could the driver stop at a chippy please?

[Binky]

My husband took his parents to the funeral of a distant relative in Birmingham and got lost between the house and the cemetry and ended up following the wrong cortage.  They only discovered the mistake when they went into the church and realised that they didn't recognise anyone!

[cassimer]

My father was a pallbearer at a military funeral a few years back. When they came to lower the coffin into the grave, it got stuck. The hole dug was not wide enough! After some time moving it about a bit, in desperation he was about to put his foot on it to force it down, when it slipped in. Luckily his widow saw the funny side!

[Aschenbach]

When a someone's wife died the widow requested their special song to be played which was Bryan Adams 'Everything I Do' which he knew as the song from Robin Hood. As the coffin was being led to the altar this romantic music was heard:

'Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen

Robin Hood, Robin Hood with his merry men'

splange when is a funeral funny for the right reasons?

[spainlads]

At my partners grandmothers funeral the church had creepy crawlies walking on the floor near the organist (on a yamaha stand-up thing). We now know that she was slowly standing on them to kill them, but at first we thougth she was dancing because she was moving about so much :)

[curiosity]

In the orbituaries of our local paper there was a death of a man with the same name as my fathers and a coincidence was a tribute from his daughter, with the same name as my sisters. She received a call from an old friend to check it out. But two weeks later , I bumped into some old neighbours who said "hows your Dad?" I said "Great" they went on to tell me how they had read the local Gazette, gone to their local club, where some men went who also knew Dad from years ago. They had organised a minibus to take them to the church, and stood outside, only realising they were at the wrong funeral when the family cars turned up and they didn't recognise anybody.

[goldfish1]

I was at a funeral some time ago and as the coffin was being brought down to the front, Englebert Humperdinck's "Please Release Me" started to play. Quite a few people sniggered.

[Sall]

hi there splange,

yes i have, it was my great grandads funeral and i was about 6 and he was laid out in my nan's front room and there were those 1950's style stairs, you know the ones where you can see through them.  my nan's cat was asleep on the stairs and the the house was full of people and my dad decided to flick an elastic band at the cat!!!! the cat got such a fright that it fell off the stairs straight onto the table below that was full of food and my nans best silver tea service.  well you can imagine the noise.  everyone tried their hardest not to laugh out of respect but it was no good it just made it worse and we all ended up in hysterics.  i will always remember that, i am still laughing now bless him!!!!

sall

[ericabond]

YES some years ago my partner and i lost a very good friend, and because we live away we had to rely on another friend to advise us of the arrangments.  The day of the funeral dawned and we set off very early to travel the distance,. we arrived at the Crem at about 10 mins before the time we had been told.  Everyone filed in and took their places, the joint friend my partner and i duly sat down.  The minister began to speak after the first hymm and he said we are all here today to pay our last respects to Frank ....... our friend was called ROY - so there we were trapped in the crem at the wrong funeral, boy did we laugh because ROY's nickname was ..... Mr Jinx.