More Personalised Funeral Ideas
October 12, 2008 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Funeral
On Widows Quest I often say how I want my funeral to be a celebration of my life not a morbid affair which upsets my nearest and dearest. I want to find my own “perfect” funeral so that no one has to worry about arrangements when I am gone, or wonder what I would have wanted. Isn’t it strange how being ill, makes you think about your own mortality?
I came across an article at Trendhunters about “An entrepreneur named Lynn Isenberg has brought new life to death with novel, personalized funerals” For example,
- A funeral for a lifelong golf enthusiast, for example, includes an end-of-life celebration on the 9th hole, complete with glow-in-the-dark golf balls engraved with the name of the recently deceased.
- The wake for an ice cream man from Rockland included, naturally, his ice cream truck, which was parked in front of the funeral home with its bells jingling and lights flashing. The ice cream truck later led the procession to the church and then to the cemetery. After the burial, free ice cream was handed out.
- For her own death she has planned an outdoor showing of To Kill a Mockingbird.
More than ever, my funeral is important to me. I don’t see it as my goodbye, I see it as my final chance to leave a happy memory on the earth – my final chance to make people smile. After all, the thing I love most is a group of family and friends smiling….
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