How many would attend YOUR funeral ?
Questions like these pop in your head when you’re brought into ER room at 3am for Kidney stones and you are screaming in pain at a scale of 12 on a 10 point scale and the ER-nurse is busy counting the number of letters in your long-desi-name asking you in that southern accent, “Is it r-a-m-a-sh-aan-d-ar-en?†and all you can muster to reply is, “Gimm-eee…daaaa…F&%#@# morphineeee!â€.
Once the ER-special episode is over and you slowly slip into that unconscious and see a glowing light slowly approaching you, you wonder, how many would really attend if you were to die NOW!
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I think I’m gonna have my
I think I’m gonna have my funeral before I die
…..atleast, that way I’ll get to hear all the things which people have waited too long to tell me….and which perhaps otherwise I wud never had gotten around to hear…..
hope u’re feeling better!
enig
That sounds like..
That idea sounds like The Barabaian Invasions El!Maybe i should do that also..although in my case am not sure..there wud be “good” things to hear
I think atleast three of my
I think at least three of my five ex-wives will attend my funeral. One or two I suspect will be busy with their modeling assignments.
I think far more people show for the funeral then what the dead person may have suspected. The very people who have absented themselves from the dead person’s life, will still show up for the funeral. You could cynical about this phenomenon. But it is nice to think that people will make that one last gesture of respect.
I don’t necessarily think funerals are for the dead as much as for the people left behind. It is a social ritual. I believe these rituals are important. Marriages and funerals both. It’s important that people come together to celebrate someone’s happiness or “be there” in times of grief, and I think the buffet table just helps the cause.
Did u get lured
Did u get lured by the buffet table to commit the same mistake 5 times over tocs
I agree..it is important to know that you are not alone..at times of happiness and more importantly during times of grief!
aww.....
stones! tch tch. looks like u ducked the tunnel
but u havev a good count there!
and i have never really thot abt this!
That was the
That was the whole point of the blog Resh!To make the readers think abt that question
feeling better?
Rama,
Have you heard of this quote by Mark Twain?!
“I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.”
Sorry, but does it really matter to the departed person of honor?
And even more honestly- except for the few, most people show up to see “who else showed up”, shed a few tears real or fake..and may even look forward to the refreshments/dinner later!
For myself, I would say- keep it private/inexpensive, get it over with quickly and don’t miss me..think about the good times and have a few smiles and laughs!
Hope you are feeling better!
Maria
maria!
touche’
i nominate you as the most sensible commentor I’ve seen in the online world. (and then I wonder why I don’t get more of your comments on my blogs
. okay… no more senti maro, I promise)
but seriously, I don’t care if I’ve told you this before, you have a unique perspective almost always. your comments strike a chord in one way or another, and I have always enjoyed reading them. I hope some day the sense rub-offs on me too…
regards,
-asuph.
Thanks Maria!
I am doing fine now but having been enamoured by the trivia of “largest number of extras in movie”–“Gandhi” for the funeral scene ,i kinda think that the funeral says a lot abt the way the person lived!