How Is This For An Odd Thought.

[SparklyKid]

Been to a few funerals recently and a speaker reads out a summary of the deceased's life.
Unfortunately the person in the coffin does'nt get to hear the accolades.

I am going to prepare little concise speeches for my family to read out so I will know in advance what is going to be said.

Might sound daft I know, still, it's a good thought.

[bhg481]

You mean you THINK you know what's going to be said. It might turn out to be "Sparkly thinks he was a real nice guy but I know different" etc. and you won't be able to do a thing about it (probably).

[pixie374]

I have always thought that it's a shame people don't get to hear their own tributes. You can only hope someone does tell them while they are still alive.

[aelmpvw]

'i told you i was ill' will be my eulogy

[AuntPollyGrey]

My mother wrote her own eulogy. When it was read out at her funeral it was the best bit of Fiction I've ever heard. According to her she was a paragon of virtue, loving mother & wife and stalwart of the community. In private my sister described her as a sociopathic narcissist -I had to go look it up on Google- and she was right. I'm not having a traditional funeral when the time comes. I'm having a pure cremation and then a pagan ceremony when my ashes come back

[Bobbisox1]

I intend to have a Wake before I go, and enjoy a good knees up :0)))

[TrevorThePug]

Will it include hit phrases such as
'the greatest' and
'bigly', or
'nobody knows eulogies like Sparklykid', or
'Sparklykid fought long and hard but finally its ovfefe'

[pixie374]

What if you get hit by a bus, ael? ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

" Ouch, that hurt!"

[pixie374]

Excellent:-)

[Ken4155]

How do you know that, come the day, your family will have the mental fortitude to stand up in front of everyone and say anything? Not as easy as it is sometimes made to look.

[Ken4155]

"What if you get hit by a bus...?" Then, "I told you i was unlucky."

[emmie]

wasn't that on Spike Milligans gravestone, I Told you I was Ill, or is that a myth like so many.....

[Ken4155]

^
True, Emmy. The epitaph had to be written in Gaelic, though, in order for it to be approved by the local council?

[Peter Pedant]

// My mother wrote her own eulogy. When it was read out at her funeral it was the best bit of Fiction I've ever heard. According to her she was a paragon of virtue, loving mother & wife and stalwart of the community.//

BMJ allows self written obits for the doctors. I did my mothers self written obit - erm yeah (*)- which someone described as 'rather spookie' . That specimen was up before the GMC on charges which must have been 'spookier' for him. She was contemporary at the Free with Elizabeth Kornerup a modern roman catholic saint. Her confessor David Knowles failed to return to his monastery and was exclaustrated by Abbot Trafford.

oh lardy dah the medical students had fun in the thirties - I wonder if they live as full lives now.

(*) we had spent such a long time on it - I just put it in the first person.

[Peter Pedant]

and then we had a good knees-up

[Tilly2]

A friend of mine wrote a letter to be read out at his funeral. It began with, 'Thank you all for coming today. ( I presume someone's turned up...)'