What's the craziest thing you've seen at a funeral?

Dec 28, 2014 8:57 PM

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The dead butterflies killed my soul a little bit

11 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

At my brother's funeral someone caught my brother's live-in girlfriend and my sister's then boyfriend having sex in the parking lot.

11 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 2

Classy.

11 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

My dad works part time in a funeral home and he told me a story one time. A bigger guy died and was cremated. The family came by before(1/2)

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Visitation and he heard them say, "God, how did they get his fat ass in that little jar" as he walked by the room.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

My 83-year-old grandfather said as we were leaving his brother's funeral "when you get to my age you wonder if it's actually worth leaving."

11 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

First funeral I went to, I was kid and didn't know the person, so I spent part of the time snacking on the After-Dinner mints that they set.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

First funeral I went to, I got locked in the tiny creepy bathroom for half an hour.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

friend posted fb photos of the funeral/engagement party she had just attended "well, the whole family was together anyway!"

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Punch that 14 year old on the duckface

11 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 2

If a kid did something like that at ANY of my family members funerals, I'd shatter the phone.... Not very nice, but there are limits.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Best friends younger brothers funeral, we had some drunk hobo walk in and start doing prayers, when he was asked to leave he asked why. 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 2

The pastor was wearing a mic, and told him that he was at a funeral. The guy panicked and screamed into it "WHAT?! BUT I'M NOT DEAD!"

11 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 1

OOO I HAVE ONE! My mother was asked out while my father was in the casket behind her. My grandfather almost killed the bastard.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

He even opened up with the line, "So now that you are single..." He was lucky I was handing out candy to the kids.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

My mom took Little Caesar's pizza to the mortuary for my grandpa's funeral.

11 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

At least get Domino's. Jesus.

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Link to the thread this was all stolen: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2qm3jb/whats_the_most_fucked_up_thing_youve_seen_at_a/

11 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 2

Thanks for the link. I was wondering what the sources were for these stories.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Wit? D: boo OP!!!! Give credit where it's due!!!

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Seriously, was it too much to just give a source at the bottom. OP's 2015 resolution should to be less like BuzzFeed.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Can we make this a thing? We're gonna make this a thing.

11 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 2

Copying r/askreddit posts?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is already a thing.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At my uncle's funeral, his eldest daughter invited the couple that secretly adopted her child. No even knew she had been pregnant.

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

My dad wore a Monty Python t-shirt that said "I'm not dead yet" in his casket. We had to warn my grandma before she showed up.

11 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Taking a selfie next to a dead relative to get people to tell you you're pretty is a whole new level of attention whoring...

11 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

My family had a fight at a funeral. drug addicts wanting war medals to sell for cash. My dad was a pallbearer. 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 107 Dislikes 3

2/2 the pastor told him to carry with his right and swing with his left if anything happened....

11 years ago | Likes 110 Dislikes 0

Good pastor.

11 years ago | Likes 54 Dislikes 1

I don't mean to offend, if I do, but that's fucking badass of the pastor to say

11 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 1

No offence... But yeah... the story is still talked about at family gatherings... there was one point where the casket was spinning

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

I mean no offence taken :)

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Shit, like, random druggies or people in the family, trying to grab them out of the coffin or what?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

the daughter of the deceased. The medals were left to my uncle (nephew of the deceased) and she wanted to sell them for drugs

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Stories so dark they created their own event horizons.

11 years ago | Likes 368 Dislikes 2

people grieve in different ways. not all of them make sens.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Some kinda collapsed in on themselves.

11 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

Lawrence Fishburne would be proud.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Like the father that's never there.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's so dark we don't need eyes to see.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is the mother of all "______ so dark" comments. +1.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My parents tell really black jokes around funerals. And then there was the time Dad lost his parents...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was 4 when my grandpa died. They said I found a frog outside and put it in the casket with him so he wouldn't be lonely.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

They say that sometimes, on quiet nights, you can still hear the ribbit.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The dead butterflies...that's so sad

11 years ago | Likes 303 Dislikes 3

Sounds like a good band name.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That one broke my heart. I feel for those parents the most. They wanted to do something beautiful for their baby, but it ended with death.

11 years ago | Likes 78 Dislikes 2

It always ends with death.

11 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 3

I'm disturbed that someone, in the setting of a funeral for a baby, would find that funny.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I'm disturbed that someone wouldn't. Now we're even, ha!

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

hilarious*

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

that's the only one i actually kinda found funny. hope i'm not the only one...

11 years ago | Likes 113 Dislikes 9

Dude, I'm in a public restroom and had a hard time suppressing my giggling...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

at least it wasn't a box of red jelly babies

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You aren't... I shouldn't have laughed, but I did

11 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 3

They forgot to read the instructions on how to have an alive child or caring for your butterflies. I am going to hell

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are you kidding, that's hilarious.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Unfortunately your not ...............i laughed my ass off

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

If it's any consolation I don't think that one is true. I've definitely heard a joke/story like that before.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

Plus it switched from friend's aunt to roommate...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I think that actually happens more than people want to admit...

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

My friend had a similar story but it was about doves at a wedding being kept in rafters in texas in august. Same result, but funnier

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've worked at a bridal show. Trust me, even when they poke air holes in, the survival rate for the butterflies is really low.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I laughed my ass off, and now I have a new expression for when something terrible happens- "box of dead butterflies"

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 3

Oh god I can't laugh that loud at 3am!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I normally don't condone physical violence, but I would have slapped some respect to that teen bitch.

11 years ago | Likes 714 Dislikes 8

I think the appropriateness of that gesture depends on her relationship to her grandmother.

11 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 3

If I learned anything from the film "Departures", everyone handles the death of their elderly relatives differently. Humor can help.

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Slapped? I would have snapped her neck.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 7

She kind of IS showing respect, just in her own way.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 33

I'll admit to the theoretical possibility she thinks she's showing respect... but she wasn't.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I disagree, if her and the grandmother were close and did selfies together a lot, then the kid was grieving and was doing a past time 18

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sorry bout the miss types kept dropping my phone

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1/2* with her grandnother. O

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Smashed her phone, then punched her in the throat. That was some bullshit if ever.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

My dumbass sister took pictures of my deceased great grandma in her casket, had them printed, and gave them to my grandma.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I thought that was sweet in a way albeit incredibly inappropriate lol

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 28

This happened to my mother and I. She met someone, and we later learned he "accidentally," killed his niece. Before anyone knew he did it 1/

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

he attended her funeral. (She was three or four.) He took a bunch of pictures, and sent it to everyone in his contacts.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

watch out, internet tough guy coming through. you're real cool threatening to assault a 14 year old for internet cred

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

i would shamelessly SLAP ALL THE RESPECT to that teen bitch.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Makes me so mad. I'm 16 and my granny died a few months ago. I would've given anything to get to have gone to her funeral. I just hope 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'll be able to work and earn enough money to visit her grave some day soon

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I would have smashed her phone to bits

11 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 0

This too.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Dec 13, 2022 7:07 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

What's with people slapping each other? I would have run him over in the parking lot.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Dec 13, 2022 7:07 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Pound symbol?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a mobile user, hwat?

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Dec 13, 2022 7:07 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

#Ï€ wait why isn't this working

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I did once. An aunt died and one nephew on the other side of the fam kept taking pics while the fam cried and comforted each other. 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 242 Dislikes 2

I got up and smacked him on the back of the head so hard he cried (18 yo), took his phone, and smashed it outside. They thanked me quietly

11 years ago | Likes 251 Dislikes 3

Good for you. I completely agree with your course of action. I would have been raging at that.

11 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

Did you have to buy him a new phone?

11 years ago | Likes 89 Dislikes 2

Fack no!

11 years ago | Likes 126 Dislikes 2

Then it was a good da... oh. But you know what I meant.

11 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 0

That juggalo one...

11 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 2

I just think it's really sad. Imagine: her son died and all she could cling to was his being a juggalo in his honor. I can respect that.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I tattooed a hatchet man on a woman as a memorial for her son. Yep.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My old roommate had that tattoo for that reason. Wonder if it's the same person. Are you in southern Ontario?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, but the lady wasn't from my town either. Still I believe she was from Arizona.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, but the lady wasn't from my town either. Still I believe she was from Arizona.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I had to look up what a juggalo was...I'm still not 100% sure what it's all about but I don't think it's something I'll ever want to be...

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

http://vimeo.com/29589320. Watch it. You won't regret it. Well, you probably will a little bit.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've actually requested in my will for Get Well Soon balloons. I wish I could see it.

11 years ago | Likes 2084 Dislikes 4

This makes me perfectly amused and sad.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dad?

11 years ago | Likes 211 Dislikes 0

My will is going to request a stripper dressed as Death. I'm not kidding, but my mother probably wishes I were.

11 years ago | Likes 96 Dislikes 5

Your will likely won’t be read till after the funeral. If you want specific funeral arrangements, plan and pay for them in advance.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If she's dressed as Death from Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" by Vertigo Comics, I'll not only attend your funeral, I'll preempt it.

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Pics. of will?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I'm renting a bouncy house and when my casket is lowered, I want them to blast Enter Sandman. I'm gonna put the FUN in funeral.

11 years ago | Likes 64 Dislikes 0

F is for fire that burns down the casket, U is for urn burial, N is for never waking up again... wait, what.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

No no. Keep going. I like where this is headed.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So into this!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I know, right? OPEN BAR at my funeral! Everyone's invited!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh man lets be friends! I wanna come to that funeral- (btw this might be the weirdest thing I've ever commented which is saying a lot!)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not even joking, my family is chock full of alcoholic Irish Catholics. One of my aunts actually had a funeral with hard liquor served.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At my funeral play the Super Mario original theme until my casket is lowered in the ground then play the underground music

11 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

is this in Springtown Texas?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Is he gonna be okay?"

11 years ago | Likes 131 Dislikes 0

He's bread, Jim.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

That's Ted, Jim.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Damnit Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a Baker.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've told my friends that the first to die, I'm bringing a get well soon balloon to fill at their coffin and tie to their wrist.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I'm glad I'm not the only one who wants a funny, interesting funeral.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

My mother said she wants to be celebrated and wants Michael Jackson's Thriller to be played on loop/

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I want someone to help me record "im not dead yet bitchs" for my funeral, just so i can scare the shit out of everyone for a laugh

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

rig your casket with a switch and speaker so that when it's closed it plays something like "i'm not dead yet". people open "k I'm ded now"..

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

..closed again: "OR MAYBE NOT"...keep doing this at your leasure.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

oooooh that's good. totally gonna throw that in my will

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

My one request is that "Another One Bites the Dust" be played.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Ill take pictures for you too see later

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

This, and something witty written on my tombstone.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I want my family to reenact the entire movie "Weekend at Bernie's" for my funeral.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

only if you die in a pretty way....you won't look alive if you are missing your head

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mum made us promise to put a phone in with her and to ring it mid-funeral. I joked that we should record a phone ringing followed by (1/2)

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

her voice saying "Hello, Hello?? What's going on, why is it so dark in here?" and set it as the ringtone...to my horror she loved the idea!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Have the balloons inside the coffin, and have them open the coffin halfway through so the balloons fly out

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I must also do this.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Don't they read the will after the funeral?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've made it verbally know a) delete internet history b) get well balloons c) mix my ashes with my pets... just for shits and giggles

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Due to drunk friends deciding it is funny they shit in your open casket...and giggle...."The deceased requested it"

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm one of those that supposed to hit the finish line faster than others so it's openly talked about quite a bit.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If I knew the date was within a couple of years I would build a badass coffin..Portable dvd player built in for watching The living dead

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fake your death.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My uncle wanted to be laid out in his convertible outside a bar he owned. It was summer, and people were afraid the body would spoil, so>>

11 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 2

>>they brought him inside and laid him out on the bar. Then people proceeded to drink over him.

11 years ago | Likes 73 Dislikes 1

...hence the queef.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

You're uncle was Irish, wasn't he?

11 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

...that obvious?

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

Get the fuck out of here. That's got to be like, at least 3 health code violations.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Now that's an Irish wake.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ew

11 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 2

I tended bar at a wake where they had hired an opera singer. In the middle of his set a drunk chav girl came in from the main pub and 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 2

started "singing" "I'm hungry chips and gravy" repeatedly at the top of her voice. We had to throw her and her friends out. 2/3

11 years ago | Likes 64 Dislikes 0

They resisted and the police had to be called. The family were severely distraught by this.

11 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 1

That image is fantastic

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

What's a chav? It sounds like a food.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

the kind of person that says: "u wot m8?" and stuff like that

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

a person of ill wealth and repute I believe.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Oh wow. I worked at a cemeteyt for years so I have some stories.

11 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 2

I'd up vote that.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wanna share 'em?

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

AMA TIME

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If enough people show interest I'll do an AMA

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Okay. I'll do a post sometime tomorrow and post it here.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just do a post with a bunch of stories

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

moar stories!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

AMA, AMA, AMA, AMA, AMA

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why bother with an AMA? All the questions will be "Can you tell me another story?"

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I'd up vote that.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd up vote that.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I enjoyed the one about smacking the son so hard Grandma broke her hand. Fucker deserved it.

11 years ago | Likes 524 Dislikes 1

She should have had the rest of the family take turns kicking his ass after pulling the stunts he pulled.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No shit. Scum of the earth that one.

11 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 1

I don't know if it's appropriate, but that Grandma is a bad-ass.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

It is pure catharsis

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Since when did funeral direstors take instructions off some random person without confirming with who is paying the bill?

11 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 1

He may have produced proof that he was the deceased's son. -shrug-

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Still not the one signing the cheque.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

A little off-topic but related to #8 - My sister-in-law lost her mother on her birthday and now she only celebrates her bday 2/3 weeks later

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Passing round the dead baby is all kinds of fucked up...

11 years ago | Likes 515 Dislikes 11

Everyone gets a lick

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Its so sad, but slightly understandable in the pain and wanting to hold the baby one last time.

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

*highly understandable

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

My cousin had stillborn twins, they put pictures of the dead babies on their Christmas card.

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

Oh wow. That's heartbreaking.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I felt bad about it, but less so when I overheard her say "You know I really thought that we'd get more attention by doing that".

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

jfc

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Essentially my reaction.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

holy. shit. now that is messed up!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, that was one of those moments where I thought "can

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They encourage moms to hold stillborns to help with the whole letting go process. Maybe that's what they were thinking? I'd decline.

11 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

Friend in mortuary services had to stop for a year after monitoring a baby funeral like this. She has now dealt with crazier things.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Im in EMS and alot of times with deceased children we let the parents hold the child, dress it, and say goodbye as a coping mechanism.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

A woman my husband knew had their stillborn's name on the answering service when the family was called. From what I heard she wanted 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

people to address him/her. 2/2

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

As someone who lost a baby during birth, It's a lot different hearing about stuff like this and then living through it. In the hospital ->

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

room when the family was there, I made sure everyone got a chance to hold my son because it was the only time they would ever be able to ->

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

say hello or goodbye to him. It was their only chance to see him, ever. So yes, it sounds creepy but it's one of those things that ->

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

can actually help the family greve. The loss of an infant is so much worse than any other loss, because their entire life, whoever they ->

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

may have been, the hopes from the family is just gone. Even though they may have been just born, they still lived for the pregnancy.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

EMT here. Course said it is normal for parents to want to hold a dead child - part of grieving. Passing it around - (1/2)

11 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

(2/2) they must have thought everyone else was grieving too.

11 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

I'm kind of ok with it.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dude, the dead baby stuff is crazy. I saw screenshots of a lady who kept her stillborn and was knitting its little mummified body clothes.

11 years ago | Likes 129 Dislikes 1

I laser engrave urns. I've etched dead baby photos you wouldn't even believe. Just knowing they're on someone's mantel somewhere...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The urns I understand, just like special caskets, etc. Those are things for the dead. Doll clothes, not so much...

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Like, I get that people grieve in their own ways, but that's some American Horror Story III Spalding-style shit.

11 years ago | Likes 83 Dislikes 2

Have you lost a child? I've seen it break people. Some people just can't make it back. It's just that sad.

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 7

And to your very personal question that you were using to make a point, yeah. I have. And yet.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

and postpartum depression can make people do some fucked up shit they wouldn't do otherwise.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And I've seen losing spouses, parents, etc break people. But they didn't mummify them and post photos on facebook.

11 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 2

Well, it's so big, where would you keep it? :V

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Oct 21, 2024 11:44 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

NSFW that please...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

"What is that?" "My daughter"

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

OH MY GOD THAT IS THE EXACT POST I WAS THINKING OF

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

in some cultures it is part of the ceremony to hug and touch the body of the deseased person

11 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 1

which is why the ebola breakout happened

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

any examples?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Make a guess how Ebola spread like wildfire.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

I believe traditional Maori funerals involve not leaving the deceased alone for the days up to the funeral.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It was even part of ours, the wake for example. Many tribes in South America and Asia would consume the body of loved ones.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

thats probably the most tasteless thing I've ever heard, actually

11 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 11

I honestly don't know what to call normal with a little ones death.

11 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 2

I know that I've never gone through it personally, but if it's younger than a year, it doesn't have a personality, not too much to grieve

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 40

What you're grieving for is the loss of his or her future, and the bond you shared and would have continued sharing with them.

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

This view will change once you spend any significant length of time with a baby of that age range.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

i have(not a lot), i'm not a big fan. and they seem to be mostly driven by instincts and temperment rather than true developed personality.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I disagree. I have three kids and a month in they had personality.

11 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 3

i agree. my nephew is only 6 months but has so much personality and sass for a baby.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

My son had personality in the womb. He liked to do baby karate. When he came out, it was crazy to watch him do what he did inside my belly

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

this. My daughter had personality at four weeks, my son around six weeks.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Regardless of whether or not that's true, that's a dang cold thing to say, bro.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

not if you're talking about theoretical children... maybe it still is, but i tend to be rather practical.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My niece died at birth, it wasn't fucked up to hold her body. It was tragic and sad. Now, she wasn't passed around at the funeral, but 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 4

I thought it was kind of weird until this Christmas. My sister was due Jan. 12 and her son's heart stopped unexpectedly. They were asked to-

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

make decisions about his body within hours of arriving at the hospital. They decided to induce and did get pictures with him and some other-

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

family. It happened without warning on the eve of his birth. I can completely understand wanting to see and hold him, living or not.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He looked completely normal. The pictures are really hard to look at though...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The dead really aren't all that scary and horrible. Same person, just not alive.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Dec 29, 2014 5:33 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

To me it seems most people at that funeral wanted to hold the baby, not forced. I held my niece a few days after she died. 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Funeral homes keep the bodies cold, so there isn't much decomposition (I'm sure one wouldn't notice it). I know it's not for everyone. 2/2

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

family went to the funeral home and held her before the funeral. Everyone needs to grieve in their own ways. 2/2

11 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 1

Sometimes this is their only interaction with the baby. When an adult dies, you have had hugs & memories. When a babies dies, it's different

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I've never gone through this, but the weirdest thing it's that nobody knows anything about the newborn. There's nothing to miss about them

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 14

They are grieving the expectation that there was going to be another member of the family.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I've had 2 of my 5 pregnancies survive past 6 weeks. Fetuses have personalities, you love them. You can have relationships with your fetus->

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

And having a baby die, all the possibilities for their life die with them. And you don't have many memories to sustain you through the loss.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Tell that to the family and mother who spent 9 months waiting and expecting.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

that would be rude

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My mother-in-law placed an empty chair next to the casket. When asked why she said "Dad requested before he died that I put out an empty 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 1164 Dislikes 5

an empty chair : for rigamortis to set in." After death he made the mother of all Dad jokes, he is still my hero.

11 years ago | Likes 1076 Dislikes 3

LMFAO!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"mother of all dad jokes" my god it's spreading

11 years ago | Likes 153 Dislikes 1

"Mother of all dad jokes" ... you mean Granny?

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

My own implication was that the mother was carrying out the dad joke

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Ha. Had to get the last dad joke in.

11 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

My mom was adopted. Her adoptive father (my grandfather) died suddenly. Her biological sister decided that my grandfather's funeral 1?

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

and?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

was the most appropriate place to meet her sister for the first time. I have never been more angry.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I don't get it; can someone explain?

11 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 2

I'm going along the lines of Rigor Mortis being a person and he would need a chair to set himself

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Set=sit

11 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 1

Rigor mortis is death-stiffness. A state where the body becomes rigid and hard to move. It sets in after a while.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I think everyone here has gone insane, 'Rigor' is not a name, so the joke doesn't work in the slightest.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 9

It could be.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Also, sit and set sound nothing alike, unless you're from the southern US.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Rigor Mortis.

11 years ago | Likes 208 Dislikes 10

Right. Riga mortis must be what they call it in Latvia.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Rick or Morty lol

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

still a solid dad joke tho

11 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 0

as solid as rigor mortis.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

My wife's Uncle Joe was an asshat. People shared stories about him being an asshat at his funeral; it was hilarious. I'm sorry I missed it.

11 years ago | Likes 129 Dislikes 1

I think asshat is my favorite word

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I really think I would rather have people laughing and telling jokes at my funeral than being somber.

11 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

There is absolutely no reason to respect the dead, tell people who they were, what they did; it's disrespectful to lie about it.

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

..his death, but I got horrendous amounts of abuse when it emerged that I had filed a police report days before he died. It was 2

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well said.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Found the Speaker for the Dead

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

apparently "disrespectful to his family". I seethe when I see the tributes on Fb. My daughter's dad was dating his ex, & he wanted revenge 3

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I should clarify that this kid "Joe" was angry that (his ex) "Kate" starting dating (my ex) "Ben". "Joe" threatened "Ben"'s daughter (2yo).

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's quite a sentence to get your head around...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, sorry, was trying to get it inside character limit. He wanted to hurt MY ex for dating HIS ex and so threatened our baby.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Perfectly logical.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A kid from the town I used to live in died outside a school after inhaling aerosols; he had threatened to kill my daughter shortly before 1

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Classic people. Disrespectful to the dead to have done something while they were alive. Hurr durr.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ikr. In the end I just let it go, his friends and family began to threaten me. I didn't say anything about it after he died but just word 1

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

..that I had gone to the police caused so much trouble. I had no interest in causing a scene, but I was genuinely scared for our safety. 2

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0