What would you like your funeral to be like?

[arsenicCatnip]

Speaker for the Dead, a la Orson Scott Card.

I would want people to speak the truth of me, and not just only focus on the good while omitting all the bad. I want to be remembered for what I was, not some glorified version of myself.

Ah, yes! Spoken by Ender Wiggin himself!

This is off-topic, did you like any of the books after Ender's Game? I mean, for me, it just got boring from there, sadly.

I thought I was the only one! Yeah I hated all his other books. I tried Ender's Shadow and Speaker for the Dead ironically enough and couldn't get through them. Ender's game was the only good one in my opinion.

I really loved the rest of Ender's story. It was Bean's I could never get into. But Children of the Mind is enthralling.

OT: I want someone to speak my life, ala Speaker of the Dead. Then after the burial, there will be a full-on party with lots of alcohol and music and food to celebrate life rather than mourn my death.

I'd rather people not be sad when I die.

 

[Doctor What]

For the life of me(har) I can't remember what this skit was called, but it was about this woman whose husband had died. It takes place at his funeral and this guy shows up and starts making a scene. It turns out that this lady's husband was this guy's only friend, since he was a bit loopy. Long story short, they start wailing because he insists it's good for the soul.

I'd like my funeral to be full of the people I love celebrating the time they had with me. Lot's of drinks, lot's of food, lot's of love and jokes.

 

[crudus]

I want to be buried on the Dwarf Planet Eris, eventually. Other than that I really don't care.

Scrubs!


I would want to be fired into the Sun

Or I would want to be buried in a cemetery that orbits the earth.

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Futurama!

 

[child of lileth]

I'd like something crazy to be in the casket. Like, they have it closed the whole time, then when they take it away, someone just happens to drop it, and something crazy drops out from inside, instead of my corpse, shocking the 3 people that showed up (or work there).

 

[zohmbee]

I honestly don't care, I'm dead, just throw me in the hole.

 

[superbatranger]

Mainly, I'd want the people in my funeral to be happy I lived, not sad that I died.

 

[Zahri]

I'd take the me route.

At my funeral, there would be an empty casket, and construction workers pouring cement into a mold of me holding a bad ass scythe, standing on a broken tombstone, giving a cocky smirk as I crack my neck. I of course would be placed inside the statue, immortalized as the guy who does shit over the top. ^.^ At my cemetery plot, the casket would still be buried, just with some of my more favored possessions (sentimental ones) and a prominent note that explains that whoever the fuck is robbing my grave is out of luck, and explains that my body is inside the statue/tombstone. =3

At my funeral as well, i would like a pianist to play the desktop theme song to .hack//G.U. Can't quite recall the name, but tis a beautiful song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l__eo2HMEPg

That one right there.

And of course, my eulogy would inspire all my friends and loved ones not to leave in tears, but with a smile. I believe seeing what is being done with my body will give leave them with the idea that even in death, whatever the fuck is after isn't going to keep me down. =3

Sorry for the excessive cursing. ^.^

 

[Om Nom Nom]

Party!!! The old community kind, which anyone can wander in and join. Preferably in a large community hall. With a kick ass buffet.

As for my corpse; blast it into space, aimed at the sun. Ultimate cremation. Providing it doesn't cost too much to do at the time. Otherwise; cremation via magma, the Dwarven way to go.

 

[the1ultimate]

Well, for one thing I'd like to be in attendance. Yep, that sounds like the only real way to say goodbye. Time travel sounds like the easiest solution, but a hologram, robot, astral projection or clone might be acceptable substitutes.

And yet, I've always liked the idea of cremation. The complete dispersal of my ashes (as a symbolic release and farewell) would be a fairly definite sign that there is nothing left of me allowing everyone to move on.

 

[Resurrectionist]

I love your avatar, and how did you get away with such a simple yet awesome name?

OT: I don't plan on dying.

It has motion sensors and it vibrates. What's not to love?

Link: name origin